I chose Madre Chocolate to include in my Vegan Mexican Pop-up Dinner after learning all about how they make the chocolate bean to bar. They are very supportive of fair and clean food from the farmers to their own production. I’m so excited to use their Xoconusco chocolate in my mole sauce! Vanilla beans A [...]
When my friend Ashley sold her share of Baby aWEARness, my space for cooking demos went “aloha”! I was trying not to worry about this (even with all the people asking, “Why isn’t anything on your calendar?” when one day, Melanie Kosaka called me and let me know about her new business Cookspace Hawaii that [...]
K.I.S.S. = Keep It Simple Sista! Today I was talking to someone who does her menu planning every Sunday and she actually whipped out her notes there on the spot. As a result, I just about had a happiness heart attack. Picture me …. Click. I took a picture of it with a little hop [...]
I’ve been reading a lot lately and this one little quote I found really hit things home for me and I think it’s so applicable to people who are learning how to cook: Seth Godin said, “Test lots of things. Fail often.” I’ve been seeing this theme come up all over the place so it’s helping [...]
What is it about this plant, lemongrass, that is rocking my world right now?! I can’t seem to get enough of this delicious flavor, especially in soup. While sipping my homemade Thai-style vegan Tom-Yum, I decided to look up the health benefits out of curiosity. It’s power packed with goodness! Here’s what a couple of [...]
I’ve put together a set of recipes that I’ve never shared before, until now, that highlight some of the deliciousness I learned during my macrobiotic studies in Japan. Some of the dishes are pictured here. I explain what the symbolism is for certain ingredients as well as recipes. The dishes eaten during the first few days [...]
The What Whole foods are unprocessed and unrefined and come to us from as close to the source as possible. In contrast, processed foods are genetically modified, colored, made by synthetic means, or laden with hormone additives. White flour, sugar, white rice, most cold cereals, crackers, and packaged foods are processed, for example, and even [...]
I consistently run into people these days who are truly scared and unwilling to eat tofu! This concerns me as it’s an excellent protein source and Asian countries that consume tofu and other soy products have low rates of breast cancer in particular. Further, I worked for 3 years at the Cancer Research Center [...]
I remember as a young girl in the 70′s, my mother used a pressure cooker. I also remember that if I got anywhere near the kitchen during this time, she would emotionally assert, “BE CAREFUL. IT MIGHT EXPLODE.” She said this with good reason as the old style of pressure cookers truly did explode. [...]
COMMON OBJECTIONS The top objections that I frequently hear to cooking and living healthier are: “It’s too expensive.” “It’s too difficult.” “It takes a long time and I’m too busy.” (photos made by Alice Inoue from our Food & Feng Shui event) THE ‘WHY’? While these are all important realities for us in a variety [...]
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