This is another truly delightful mindfulness practice. In the Zen Buddhist tradition, meals are ritualized and taken in silence. Chants that invite mindfulness and gratitude are recited, and no one begins eating until everyone is served. Only as much as can be eaten is taken. No one goes hungry. No one overeats. During the meal, [...]
Do you ever wonder about certain combinations of ingredients and who first dreamed them up? For instance, who was the very first baker to blend lemons and poppy seeds to make muffins? I suppose it doesn’t really matter. What matters is how wonderfully these two tastes pair up. This recipe is so simple that you [...]
This has always been one of my favorites from 3 Bowls, not just because it's spicy and delicious but also because it's so simple. And it has some of my favorite foods: sweet potato, rice, black-eyed peas, collard greens - all spiced up with Chipotle. Add to this the fact that it's a crowd pleaser [...]
I made these muffins in August when freshly picked blueberries and farm fresh zucchinis were abundant. But they are just as good any time of the year using frozen organic blueberries and whatever green zucchini you can find. They can be whipped up in 10-15 minutes and then baked for 20-25 minutes for a healthy [...]
Recently, some friends offered us their weekly CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) share of vegetables and fruit. They were leaving town for a couple weeks and wanted to share the bounty. Among the plethora of just harvested vegetables from Roxbury Farm was a quart of yellow plums. We were delighted. The plums were delicious, but we [...]
It’s summertime, which in my house means lots of salads with farm fresh vegetables, corn on the cob and veggie burgers. Or salmon on the grill when we’re in the country. And what is a real summer meal without good old-fashioned potato salad? Here’s a version that I haven’t made in a while, but definitely [...]
This has become a favorite of mine and is always a big hit for a winter lunch at my all day meditation groups. It comes via my good friend Ann Ogden who passed it along to me about four years ago. We cooked together many times at a Zen monastery in the Catskill mountains and now she teaches [...]
There’s nothing quite like a hot bowl of soup on a cold winter night. A warm wedge of cornbread to go with, and a salad on the side will make for a complete and easy meal. Maybe it’s the southern in me (my mom—and the cooking I grew up with—is from South Carolina) but I [...]
I was once nominated for an Oscar! Well, not a Hollywood Oscar, but a Food Oscar. And to be totally transparent, I wasn’t actually nominated, the cookbook, 3 Bowls, that I co-authored with Zen monk Seppo Ed Farrey, was nominated. And it was Seppo’s amazing recipes that qualified our book to be nominated for the James Beard Foundation [...]
Is like a day without… You can fill in the blank. For me, it changes daily. Could be love, sun, laughter, a deep breath, a satisfying night’s sleep, a pleasant dream, a warm breeze. I’ve spent almost half my life, maybe more, taking care of what and how I eat. Avoiding processed foods, red meat, [...]
