Monthly Archives: January 2010

Mashed Sweet Potatoes

This was a favorite for us over the holidays, and we simply haven't stopped craving or making it! It's super easy, tasty, and good for you too. 4-5 sweet potatoes, cut into 1 1/4 pieces 1 tablespoons horseradish - grated 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 teaspoons rock salt 2 teaspoons ground white or black pepper Dice potatoes, and place in large pot. ...


Sweet Potatoes

lpomoea batatas, Convolvulaceae Despite their naturally sweet taste and highly nutritive quality - far surpassing that of the common white-baking “potato” - sweet potatoes have had a hard time standing their own ground. Given their namesake, they are often mistaken as the common “potato.” But as members of the morning glory genus (Ipomoea), they are only ...


Sattvic Food

“Without a healthy food body (physical body), we cannot remember..... the food body is the most tangible form connecting us to universal consciousness” - Maya Tiwari Preparing and eating food can be - and ought to be - a spiritual practice, a way of remembering and connecting with our true nature, our inner spirit. According to the ...


Food and the Mind & Spirit

The body, mind and spirit are intimately connected. How we feel in our physical body affects and even determines not only how well our mind functions, but too the clarity of our thoughts and the nature of our emotions - or how well we embody and express our true nature or spirit. Similarly, the state ...


Nature’s Qualities and Our Mind

According to Ayurveda, we all embody three mental qualities - or rather qualities of Nature, which influence all things in our life and regulate our mind and emotions. These three mental qualities, or the Gunas, are Sattva (illumination), Rajas (activity) and Tamas (inertia). Sattva Sattva, a Sanskrit word that literally means "being-ness" (from sat "being" and tva ...


Eating to Support Your Spiritual Practice

I have been experimenting with “healthy” eating for a great deal of my life, and have been lured into various ways of eating in the name of health - during which I’ve consumed tons of tomatoes and potatoes, raw onions and garlic, and other foods that simply aren’t suitable to my mind/body constitution or all that ...


About this Blog

This year I have set the intention to research and write about foods that are healing on every level of our being, and thus supportive of physical and mental health, vitality, and inner-transformation. My goal is to write about one type of food a week throughout this year, and to include various posts throughout that ...