Where healthy meets delicious!
How to make Tzatziki Sauce! A delicious Greek cucumber-yogurt sauce to use in mezze platters, wraps, gyros, or as a simple dip for pita bread, or as a delicious side to Mediterranean dishes. This EASY healthy recipe can be made in 15 minutes! Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed…
Chilled Cucumber Melon Soup – an easy, healthy summer soup that can be served as an appetizer or light meal. Refreshing and delicious! Once you realize this floating life is the perfect mirage of change, it’s breathtaking – this wild joy at wandering boundless and free. ~Han Shan This chilled Cucumber Melon Soup is a…
Grilled Lamb Chops with Harissa Yogurt, grilled summer veggies and fresh mint- a simple, easy meal perfect for outdoor entertaining! If you’ve never tried grilling lamb chops, this easy recipe will show you how easy it is! Death is the mother of beauty. ~ Wallace Stevens Here’s another delicious catering recipe I wanted to share with…
Crispy Vegan Quinoa Cakes ( with no eggs, flour or bread crumbs) topped with Tomato Chickpea Relish- a healthy flavorful, plant-based VEGAN dinner that is delicious and gluten-free! Can be made ahead! What makes this Crispy Vegan Quinoa Cakes Recipe unique is that they have no eggs, no bread crumbs, no flour of any kind, no…
A simple delicious recipe for Peruvian Ceviche made with white fish, chilies, lime, a splash of coconut milk and a hint of ginger. Easy, healthy and flavorful! It’s so hot! The heat of summer is upon us and I’m finding that my appetite is not as voracious as it usually is and lighter meals are finding their way onto…
Pickled Cherry and Farro Salad with almonds, goat cheese, and fresh herbs tossed in a Vanilla Balsamic Dressing. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.~ Marianne Williamson Here’s a delicious summer salad highlighting juicy ripe cherries, created by my friend…
Grilled Lemongrass Chicken- bursting with Vietnamese flavors. Use this in Vietnamese Rice Noodle bowls (Bun Ga Nuong) or on its own over rice. There is a secret ingredient that makes this especially delicious and authentic! Gluten-free. Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges…
A simple Sicilian recipe for Purple Cauliflower Salad (purple cauliflower is optional!) with kalamata olives, capers, fresh herbs, a grain of choice, topped with pickled red onions. Add Marcona almonds or shaved pecorino to add richness, or keep it vegan! Either way, you’ll love the Sicilian flavors in this recipe! I stumbled on the most beautiful…
An authentic Nuoc Cham Recipe, a Vietnamese dressing and dipping sauce for salads, spring rolls, and rice noodle bowls. Vegan Adaptable! While in Vietnam, I asked a cafe owner what the secret was to her Nuoc Cham. Her short and powerful response was short and simple and stuck with me ever since — equal parts! For…
Grilled Fava Beans with Mint, Lemon Zest & Sumac, a simple, easy way to prepare fresh fava beans on the grill! Vegan and bursting with Middle Eastern flavors. Vegan and Delicious! Growing up with an Egyptian father, you can probably imagine how often fava beans showed up in our house. Most often we had them…
A refreshing Cantaloupe Salad with mint, lime, and pepitas with optional crumbled feta (optional) – a tasty healthy summer salad, perfect for potlucks and gatherings. When you cut into a perfectly ripe cantaloupe, what you’ll notice first is its fragrance: honey-scented, floral and slightly musky. You’ll know you picked a good one if its juicy…
Savory Teff Cakes with Wilted Chard and Fresh Tomato Relish – a simple delicious vegan dinner recipe that is full of protein and nutrients! Your sadness doesn’t make you less of a human being. In fact, it makes you more. More expansive. More connected. Painfully beautiful. Raw. Open. Completely alive. ― Panache Desai Here is…
Stuffed Avocado with Shrimp and Tarragon- a light and healthy summer meal perfect for brunch, lunch or a light dinner. Keto friendly! Our inner monologues have tremendous power over us. They can affect not only our mood, not only our physical bodies, but also our every waking moment—and, therefore, every consequence.― Panache Desai Here is…
What to buy at the Asian market! Here is a simple PRINTABLE list, to help you build your Asian pantry, organized by sections! Simple and easy- just print the list out and take it with you! Food is the ingredient that binds us together. – Unknown So many of you have asked for this and…
A quick and easy recipe for Tuscan White Bean and Tuna Salad with arugula, radishes, scallions, capers and seasonal tomatoes, with a shallot vinaigrette. A simple 15-minute “pantry” meal! Need a quick lunch? Here’s a super easy recipe that can be made with pantry ingredients that comes together in less than 15 minutes! Tuscan White…