Tangy Delicious Vitamin C Honey
Sit tight! This is one of my very favorite recipes. It’s a boosted wellness honey – bright rosy pink, vitamin C packed, and bursting with flavor. This honey tastes like a thousand Sweet Tart candies were crushed up and dissolved into it. It’s tangy, sweet and sour, and ups your honey game immediately.
I tend to make a big container of this Vitamin C Honey a few times a year with whatever powdery Vitamin C ingredient magic I have on hand. This batch has rose hips and hibiscus, and some echinacea. It’s an electuary of sorts.
Little jars of it make the best gifts. Or a little spoonful after a meal to satisfy a sweet tooth. If you love PB&J sandwiches. Make one with this honey in place of the jelly.
I’ll note this in the recipe down below, but use my recipe as a jumping off point. Play around! If you can’t find one of the ingredients I call for, no big deal. Leave it out, or add another spice or powder you like! Pitaya powder is tricky to source (and pricey), you can totally leave it out, and maybe crush up some freeze-dried strawberries or raspberries instead!
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Pad thai is nearly always a crowd-pleaser. It’s the sort of food that’s good, even when it’s bad. I mean, everyone loves a noodle-based stir-fry. Also, all the gluten-free people can get on board, because, rice noodles. Today’s pad thai recipe is the riff I’ve been making lately – combining a Thai heart and a California spirit. Hot water is traditionally used to soften the rice noodles. I boost that water with lots of turmeric and the noodles drink it up until they glow a hot yellow. Also, this typically ends up being a one-dish meal for us, and I can’t help but add a significant green component. Enter broccolini.
Like any other stir fry, you want to have all your ingredients prepped, and your noodles soaked before you fire up the burner. Once you start cooking, things go down fast. For this recipe I have you cook the broccolini first, remove it from the pan, and then proceed with the recipe. One pan meal.
The other wild card here is in relation to the bean sprouts. Sometimes, none of the stores within walking distance of my house have them, or they are sad looking. I substitute dice celery, which I actually love – lots of crunch and flavor! Hope you enjoy!
For you turmeric lovers, you can also browse these turmeric recipes. This pad thai recipe is one of my favorite ways to incorporate the super spice, but you’ll find lots of other ideas as well. Enjoy!
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Quick to make in your Instant Pot and full of amazing flavors, this gem of a recipe is Paleo, Whole30, gluten free and dairy-free
Oven Roasted Tofu with Spanish Paprika and Parsley
This easy and healthy vegan stir fry is perfect dinner for busy weeknight. Classic asian comfort food.
These Keto Bánh Mì Bowls are a delicious and fresh low carb meal option with plenty of flavor.
This easy, healthy Chicken Madeira made in the Instant Pot has pieces of tender chicken, luscious mushrooms, and fresh asparagus.
Marvelously creamy baked avocado fries are coated with almond meal. The creamy chipotle dipping sauce is a must!
Gruyère Panna Cotta with Chocolate Fig Jam & Walnut Brittle. Creamy, nutty and mind blowingly delicious.
Baechu-Kimchi or Napa Cabbage Kimchi is packed with spice, flavor, and probiotics as a result of its fermentation time.
An ooey, gooey, spicy and meaty cheese dip that pairs well with crackers, chips, and celery sticks for those doing low-carb.
Meaty yet meat-free, these vegan and GF meat ballz are delicious in fluffy homemade flatbread with tomato relish and avocado slices.
Bright green roasted Brussels sprouts, paired with delicate shallots, salty bacon and a bit of parmesan - these are DELISH!!
Cherry and chia seed smoothie. Made with almond milk. You can't get much healthier. Start the day the detox way.
Whole30 Chicken Pad Thai made with spiralized daikon noodles, tender chicken breasts, red bell peppers, and cashews. Paleo, GF, Keto
This decadent custard pie is your morning coffee in a bite! A flakey, chocolate crust filled with the creamiest coffee custard!
Ever heard of Dutch erwtensoep? This hearty split pea soup is the perfect meal on a cold evening... With rye bread and butter!
Raspberry Rose Hot Chocolate is what sweet dreams are made of! This Valentine's day special is a creamy, warm & comforting drink!
These slow cooker short ribs are easy to prepare, fall-off-the-bone tender and packed with flavor. A comfort food meal you need!
Open faced mushroom melts are like grown up cheese toast for dinner. Get this healthy and delicious weeknight meal on the table!
This Mexican veggie soup recipe has a rich depth of flavor and is ready in just 30 minutes.
These Sweet Potato skins, stuffed with cheese and bacon, make a fantastic over-the-top snack / tailgating appetizer / comfort dinner!
Delicious oven Roasted Broccoli with Vegan Cheese Sauce made with only simple, whole food ingredients and no nuts or oil.
This gluten and dairy free Dutch baby is perfect for breakfast, brunch, lunch, snacks, or even dinner depending on what you pair with it.
I lightened up this popular French chicken dish known as Poulet Au Vinaigre, which is made with chicken thighs and shallots cooked in red wine vinegar and white white.
Red wine vinegar gives it an intense, tangy flavor, that mellows as it simmers. Shallots are similar to onions, and are always a staple in my house along with onions and garlic. They can transform any ordinary dish and make it extraordinary. The ease of this dish makes it perfect for a busy weeknight dinner.
When the weather outside is frightful, be sure your snacks are so delightful. That’s our motto when it comes to snow days. Whether you’re surrounded by kids or you have your home (blissfully) to yourself, be sure to have the ingredients kicking around to make at least one of these warming winter treats. From cheesy to oozy to chocolatey, we have just the thing to take the edge off those chills. (Have we mentioned how much we love sweater weather?)
1. Roasted Garlic and Black Pepper Raclette
If you’re not in Switzerland and don’t have an enormous wheel of raclette at your disposal to melt by a fireplace, don’t fret. This garlicky raclette fondue-style dip is spiked with white wine, crème fraîche, heavy cream and more cheese. Dip roasted fingerling potatoes in it while sipping hot toddies or white wine with friends, and you won’t even miss the roaring fire.
2. S’mores Pie
Another way to recreate the soothing effects of an actual fireplace, if you don’t have one, is this shareable s’mores pie. Less gooey and messy than its inspiration, it comes together in less than an hour thanks to that easy-breezy graham cracker crust. Swirled on top? It’s not homemade marshmallow, but something much simpler: a delightful meringue.
3. Chicken, Spinach and Gruyère Turnovers
Savory and satisfying, these turnovers can be made in advance, then plated with a big green salad for supper or doled out as snacks to hungry family members. Slip them into freezer bags and bake them as appetites demand on snow or rain days. It’s a combination of ingredients—spinach, a splash of cream, chicken and nutty Gruyère—that never gets old, no matter the weather.
4. Mini Ricotta Doughnuts
Though we call them doughnuts, you could also call these gorgeous little ricotta numbers fritters. Whatever you call them, they’re delicious, and much simpler than the average doughnut. Just heat canola oil in a pot, drop in tablespoons of ricotta batter, wait three minutes, and you’ve got golden fritters to rival whatever the best restaurant in your town is serving as an appetizer. Best of all, you can drizzle them in a thyme-honey-lemon zest sauce you’ll want to slather on every baked good from here on out.
5. Skillet Chocolate Chip Cookie
The only thing better than a whole tray of chocolate chip cookies? One giant chocolate chip skillet cookie, served warm and dolloped with ice cream. Cookies are a little time-consuming, if you want to get through that whole batch of batter. These are not, and are ready in just 40 minutes. Don’t skip the finishing touch of flaky sea salt, which will brighten the sweetness of the chocolate and look pretty, to boot.
6. Beaufort, Chive and Black Pepper Gougères
A fancy way of saying “warm cheese puffs,” gougères are the French treat you didn’t know was missing from your life. These employ Beaufort, a raw French cow’s milk cheese that’s like a more subtle sibling to Gruyère. Serve them warm, if at all possible, and have another tray ready to pop in the hot oven if you have a ton of guests. Nothing disappears as fast as these do.
7. Hot Chocolate and Churros
Who knew it was possible to improve upon hot chocolate? Or doughnuts? Mexico knew. These hot chocolate and churros belong together just as much as chocolate and vanilla do. A flurry of cinnamon sugar dusted over the churros makes them just the thing to dunk in a simple, straightforward hot chocolate recipe. Bonus: Kids will love dunking the churros into the cocoa, and might be (temporarily) distracted from cabin fever.
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The history of Chinatown, USA is a complicated one.
America’s very first “Chinatown” got its name in 1853, but waves of immigrants had begun to depart their native China as early as the mid-1940’s. Fleeing natural catastrophes in the wake of the first Opium War that resulted in poverty, famine and uprisings, Chinese began to consider Gum San, or “Golden Mountain”: America.
America’s First Chinatown
San Francisco’s Portsmouth Square became the site of America’s first Chinatown. Chinese pharmacies and herbalists, produce vendors and laundries gathered close to downtown. It became a center for recreation and festivities among immigrants and tourists alike.
In 1906, a huge earthquake hit San Francisco. Chinatown was leveled, and City Hall destroyed. Incredibly, although their primary community had been demolished, Chinese immigrants were able to claim citizenship because their records had gone up in smoke. They sent for their families, rebuilt Chinatown, and there it stands.
California wasn’t their sole home by then. Chinese people had begun to migrate East, and into cities and towns. (The first known reference of “chop suey” in Boston dates to 1879.) “Chop suey houses” became a popular date activity in the early 20th century, and by the 1950s and 1960s, “going for Chinese” was “a thing,” particularly in metropolitan areas.
In 1943, President Roosevelt repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act. That, plus a loosening of immigration restrictions in 1965, led to people coming to America from all over China.
Chinatown, USA and Food
One of the most visible stamps of their cultural contributions is in the restaurant world. Today, some sources say there is a Chinese restaurant or two in nearly every American town. Chinatowns themselves, some 50 or so across America, provide a cultural touchstone in some communities and a hot tourist destination in others. New York City boasts the largest Chinatowns—including robust ones in Flushing, Queens, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and downtown Manhattan—and the largest Chinese population of any city outside of Asia.
The Chinese immigrant diaspora also includes people from all over China, which for an avid foodie is a huge boon. We can find popular Cantonese Szechuan dishes, but also those tracing to Xi’an, Dongbei, and lesser-known towns, cities and provinces.
Chinatown TodayAmericans are slowly adjusting to the pleasures of authentic regional Chinese cooking along with Chinese-American staples like General Tso’s chicken. In San Francisco, native Brandon Jew cooks the Cantonese cuisine he grew up eating. He gives it a seasonal California bent reflected in his training at famous restaurants like Zuni Café. (Pro tip: Check out his sauces here.)
So as Lunar New Year gets underway on February 5, 2019, consider supporting the Chinatown or Chinese restaurant near you. It’s a community that’s undergone quite a lot to make it in USA!
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