Ode to Nutritional Yeast
Okay, so to the uninitiated, nutritional yeast sounds and probably looks disgusting. If you haven’t seen it, it is yellowish, almost American cheese color, and is powdering and flaky. I will not make any analogies to the flakiness because, again, I can’t think of something that sounds appetizing or appealing. However, as a card-carrying vegan, […]
Food For Yogic Thought
Food for Yogic Thought Food is not just fuel. What you put into your body affects how you feel, your overall health, energy, and longevity. The yogic diet has a holistic approach. Rather than separating components of food by calories and nutrients, the yogic perspective is of the diet as a whole. In general, you […]
When Will I be Ready to….
How often do we ask ourselves this question? When I first started teaching yoga, I wasn’t “ready”. In fact, I was kind of thrown into it because the teacher kept not showing up. When I contemplated opening my first yoga studio, I definitely wasn’t ready. I remember debating this with myself and realizing that the […]
The Search for Felafel
In my last post, I mentioned my friend Assim and our common passion for felafel. I haven’t had a good felafel in a long time. It got me thinking about all the food that I enjoyed in my travels to Turkey and Morocco. This morning, I was driving down Albany Street, thinking of Assim and […]
Chocolate Mint Cupcakes
Okay, so I have made this recipe a few times in the past couple weeks for various reasons. One, I made this as a cake for my son, Dylan’s, birthday. It is his favorite cake and he likes it with raspberries and fresh mint leaves. I also made this for a fundraiser I did for […]
Vegan Boy
I want to celebrate my son Dylan on his 10th birthday. He has made 2 choices of late which are worth noting; one to cut his waist length hair and donate it (http://blog.o2yoga.com/2011/05/10/hair-today-gone-tomorrow/), and the other was to become vegan. He decided to go vegan while we were still on our RV trip. I will […]
Hair today, Gone tomorrow
Today is the tenth birthday of my oldest son Dylan. I want to celebrate the birth of this very cool, unique individual. Our family homeschools which means we spend a lot of time together. Still, it goes by quick. I remember the day of his birth as it was yesterday. He has had long hair […]
Shoulds and Shouldn’ts
Do you ever get caught up in what you should be doing when you actually want to be doing something else? Or that feeling that you are not doing enough of a certain thing or of anything? Blogging definitely brings this out in me. I am often feeling like I should be writing more. I […]
Carrot Ginger Soup
I have always shied away from carrot soups because they seemed too thin or sweet or something. However, this recipe was inspired from a podcast I was listening to called Compassionate Cooks. Colleen Patrick Goudreau is an activist, cookbook writer, and all around cool person. Her podcast is called Vegetartian Food for Thought www.compassionatecooks.com/podcast.htm When […]
Squasharoni
This recipe was originally taken from my friend, Kris Quinones’ newsletter (kqbodywork.com). More on the story of this recipe on my other blog, blog.o2yoga.com.(http://blog.o2yoga.com/2011/04/13/finding-inspiration/) It is yummy, healthy and relatively easy. There are two version below since my friend Kelly Halldorson made her own version. Take your pick or make both! Kris’s Squasharoni Recipe Ingredients […]
