Recipes
Probiotic & Enzyme Salad Recipe
Probiotics generally stir up associations with antibiotics, medicine, and compulsory pills to somehow "fix us" or "make us better." While they do come in many forms, probiotics and antibiotics are completely separate (and very opposite) things! Probiotics are powerful...
5 Simple Tips for a Healthy Labor Day
Labor Day is right around the corner and brings with it the return to school and the start of football season. As a national holiday, Labor Day is all about two things – rest and celebration (it’s pretty funny that they are completely opposite notions but oddly don’t...
Indulgent Desserts- A Healthy Twist On Classic Ingredients
Dessert can be tricky to maneuver. It can spell digestive disaster, and it is stereotypically loaded with sugars and fats. Dessert is among the first things people cut out when wanting to trim weight and shed fat. Dessert should not be eaten every day, but sometimes...
Sweet Walnut Chutney
One of my favorite cuisines in the world is Indian food. Unfortunately, not much Indian food is raw, so it is not something I get to eat very much... Occasionally if I eat it I'll get yellow dahl with rice or some vegetable curry. Too bad the korma and masala sauces...
Israeli-Inspired Chopped Salad
I hope you are having a great week so far. I am leaving tomorrow morning for Atlanta, so tonight was my last night in New York. My beautiful friends Philip and Taylor invited me to their apartment in Brooklyn to have dinner. I went right after a yoga...
Coconut Green Smoothie!
I wanted to talk about this wonderful Coconut Green Smoothie. I love young coconuts- and I have virtually lived off them when traveling through SE Asia, French Polynesia and certain countries in the Carribbean and Central/South America. When using them in smoothies,...
Good Day LA Stylefile Video Segment: The Skin-Plumping Smoothie
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hju7jJMx62w] Here is the quick clip that I shot 2 weeks ago in LA. When we shot it I included a lot more info on the ingredients, but they had cut it down to make it really move and fit into the show. I hope you try it out!...
Raw Cauliflower “Mashed Potatoes”
I hope you had a great weekend! I ended up going to the Rubin Museum yesterday on 17th Street, which is fantastic. It specializes in Himalayan art, and it certainly ignited some nostalgia of my travels through Nepal and Kashmir. Then, this girl I...
The Skin-Plumping Smoothie
When I shot a Stylefile segment for Good Day LA., they wanted a smoothie of sorts, so I created this recipe right before shooting. Sylefile segments are not live, so there were plenty of cutaway shots, holding the ingredients in my hands a few times, pouring and...
Medicinal Marinade with Shiitake and Burdock Root
This special marinade is something that can be added in small quantities as a side to regular salads. If you are unfamiliar with these ingredients, especially the burdock root, be sure to test small amounts to be sure it agrees with you. Both of these special...
