Wednesday, January 11, 2006
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Thanks for visiting my Ayurvedic food and life blog. I hope you enjoy the various articles and links, and vegetarian recipes with plenty of dosha-specific recommendations and even wheat-free options. Please feel free to leave a comment or just say hello!
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Awesome job you are doing out here. Love your soup recipes and breakfast options. Keep up the great job!
Your website is a wonderful resource for people. I have it listed as a recommended website on a resource page for my yoga students and thai massage clients. Thanks for your generosity! Peace, Sophie
This is such a fantastic website! I send it to my nutrition clients all the time - so glad to see other people pass it around as well. I think you should have a book - with recipes, sketches, blogs, etc...it would be such a wonderfully holistic book. There's a sense of care and warmth in your writing. By the way, my toddler loves your recipes. Thank you for sharing!
What a delightful website! I stumbled across it when searching for alkaline recipes. I am vegan and have just embarked on a detox which emits mostly acid forming foods such as sugar and wheat products. Some of your recipes look simply delicious (chickpea soup and detox soup especially) and I can't wait to get to the market tomorrow to buy the ingredients. Thank you for your time and effort put into this website and for sharing it with all internet users. Peace, Madeleine.
Awesome site, Claudia!
Hi! I have looked for a website like this forever. So happy I found it. Nice to have an ayurvedic online community, instead of just reading books. Also, I appreciate all your photos. Most ayurvedic cookbooks don't have real photos and it can be intimidating not knowing what your end result is going to look like. When you make a cookbook, let me know!
- Jen
This is just the site I was looking for. Thank you so much. I was wondering if you have any suggestions for recipes that are easily altered per portion. I am vata, but my husband is pitta. I don't want to always cook neutral meals for us. So many of the vata recipes are so appealing to me. I don't want to always be avoiding them for his sake. Thanks again.
Thank you everyone for your lovely comments!!
In response to the anonymous one just before this comment, there are a few things you can do to cook for a Vata and a Pitta in the same meal. One is that you can focus on foods with Kapha qualities, which balances both Vatas and Pittas (foods that are heavy, earthy and moist). You as a Vata can add extra spice to your dish with chutneys, a ginger-garlic-coriander salsa, a sprinkle of cayenne, etc, and serve your food hot. Your husband as a pitta can add raita (yogurt with cucumber and mint) to his dishes and cool the food down a bit. There are also special dosha-specific seasonings you can have at the table to just add to your foods, to any dish, to balance out your individual doshas -- they are called churans, and you've inspired me to post about them -- check back soon!
I just found your website and am enjoying it very much. I need wheat-free (and gluten-free) recipes so always appreciate healthy vegetable-based vegetarian recipes...
That's great, seamaiden! Most of the dishes on this blog are in fact gluten-free -- many dishes are rice-based, pasta dishes can always use rice noodles, and my baked goods recipes offer alternate flours to use (my favourite for baking is barley flour, or a combo of kamut, rice and arrowroot flours).
Hi all! I love the site. I just signed up for a program in November held at a new resort called Cavallo Point. In case anyone wants join me, here's what I am doing. Can't wait to get started! http://www.cavallopoint.com/program_adv_wellbeing.php
Hi! I have been following your blog for some time now. I also am a Pitta-Kapha. I have a food blog (foodophilia.blogspot.com) in the formative stage right now. You are listed as a favorite. Have you read Eating Mindfully by Dr. Susan Albers? It seems like somthing you'd be interested in. Thank you for the inspiration.
E-mail me and I'll send you my
COSMIC CURRY
sauce,chutney etc
All my recipies are secret-
I love your site....
Penny Lalo Singh
Halito,
I am an East Indian "chef" who makes "Cosmic Curry" sauce, chutney, etc......all of my recipes are secret family recipes...but you can e-mail me for some:
plalo@myself.com
I love your website.....
Penny Lalo Singh
Vancouver and the Sunshine Coast
Canada
Nice website! Love the vegan recipes -- great pictures too. I like that you use whole foods, unlike a lot of vegan recipes that use imitation meat and dairy. Your diet advice for vegans is very helpful for someone transitioning to this type of diet.
Beautiful site, Fran!
Your recipes are very refreshing, original and simple. Great pictures too.
I enjoyed reading the yoga postures as well.
Cheers, Sue
Hey!
I just wanted to let you know that I'm amazed by you. Not only do you have a great blog, but u r such a talented artist. How on earth do you have time to work and cook and blog?! I was also wondering how you learned about Ayurveda. You seem VERY well-versed and I am just beginning my journey both in Ayurveda and the blogosphere. Any advice/help would be greatly appreciated. I've got a link to you on my blog at: www.thelifeofkiley.com
Come visit anytime!!
I just found your site, and am finding it tremendously helpful!! I've recently discovered Ayurveda and am on Day 2 of my new Kapha-pacifying diet. The information you've posted has been fantastic!!
Thanks so much. :)
Anita
can you recommend some foods to reduce gas/bloating ... that help ease digestion and keep the digestive system healthy? my stools are soft/mushy and I have heard that it is better to have long, firm log-like stools. also what is a natural way to clean out the system/colon? bran doesn't do it for me and I do not want to resort to these powders/gimmicks
Thanks everyone for leaving such lovely messages in my guestbook!! :-)
To the last anonymous message, following a vata-pacifying diet will help reduce gas/bloating, and is also the easiest kind of food to digest. For help on that front you can start by visiting this website or do a search for "vata pacifying diet". As for stools, there can be so many factors to its consistency, so just try a vata diet for a while and see if it helps. And I find the best way to clear out the intestines is through having psyllium before your larger meals (a full teaspoon in a glass of water, followed by some more liquid). But a warning, it does produce some gas!
Wow, this site looks great. I think it's exactly what I've been looking for. Thank you so much.
Please, will you marry me ?
New to Ayurvedic health but really am fascinated by the possibilities. The Detox Soup was great. I'm anxious to try more recipes.
Thanks. I just found your blog. I would like to try fasting, but am too afraid to give it a go because I'm such a grazer and can't stay still. I love to read all your posts. Thanks!
I followed the trail of sesame seeds here, from EatLiveRun.com
Looking forward to reading!
Just found your blog through Eat Live Run, and it's fantastic! SO much information. Yoga and ayurveda are new to me, but making so much sense in my life right now. Thanks :)
Hi Claudia,
I love your blog! Thank you so much for the recipes and dosha-specific modifications. I am new to Ayurveda, so it really helps.
By the way, I wanted to let you know that I've mentioned your blog on mine: http://www.thereluctantyogi.blogspot.com. I hope you don't mind.
Thanks again
Anita
I just found your great blog and know that I will enjoy your recipes.
Just what I have been looking for and now I found you! Thanks!
Wonderful blog with great recipes. Thank you for writing it.
Finally... after 40 years of cold hands and feet (and a losing battle to keep my energy in balance), there is a common sense approach to nourishment, and your site helps us put it all together.
Thank you!
Zara
Lovely site! As a true believer in Mother nature and its balancing principles,I also appreciate very much Ayurveda.Your site is a great contribution in understanding how this harmony can benefit our lives,thank you so much! Mia
I was looking for an gluten free, egg free moist chocolate cake and yours is great! thanks so much. I'm looking forward to trying some of your other recipes.
I found your site today, what an amazing collection of recipes :) I am going to stick around ...
This site is great . Exactly what I was looking for . I am a family doctor in Germany . . I am interested in Ayurveda since I went to an ayurvedic spa 2 times . But its hard to follow their advise in daily life . But this week Iamn off and I wanted to use it to get bet to ayurvedic cooking ,meditation ,yoga and so on ,so your site is a gift of heaven to me. Do you have roots in India? Thanks for all the work you do here .... Hanneke
so glad I found this blog...there is so much to learn and it intrests me so much
I have been enjoying your blog a lot! The recipes are very tasty, and their ayurvedic application tips are easy to understand and to apply. Thanks your the great service!
Hello. I am visiting your blog from Vancouver Island.
I wish you a fine and smooth day... cheers
Thank you for your web site. I pleasantly stumbled onto it looking for a carob/nut ball recipie-and found so much more:)
Great blog! Will be back.
love your blog. it's so informative and well presented. i have posted your link on my facebook page. please come by and have a look at mine. only just started, raw vegan food.
ooosharawculinaryartistry.blogspot.com
thanks again!
Fran, my dear, would you be so kind as to add a "snacks" section to your recipes, for us Vata's with the munchies?
Oh, and if you’re free, we should get married.
Excellent site. I will be back often for recipes and yoga poses. I was surprised to see you are in Toronto too. I love your illustrations on your other blogs as well. Great work!!
Wendy in Toronto
Namaste ! Thank you very much for this service. So much knowledge of ayurveda is being disseminated, but it is sad that someone rarely mentions that it is a partial incarnation of Lrod Vishnu, known as Sri Dhanvantari that has given us this knowledge. Let us give credit where credit is due, and express our gratitude.
With gratitude,
Gaura Das
This is a wonderful site. I am an Ayurvedic practioner in Idaho, and will recommend this site to patients looking for recipes. Thank you.
Tona Leiseth
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