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YAY! I love The Joyful Belly! They have great Ayurvedic recipes and you can create an entire menu just for YOU! All their recipes break out according to your constitution (vata, pitta, kapha), so their meal plans are totally individual. Just like Ayurveda! AND it’s free to sign up. How ’bout them apples!?
Their recipe of [...]

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I would love to introduce you to Pure Indian Foods. If you ever have doubt or are in a quandary about how to make or where to buy ghee, look no further. I am so NOT a product gal, but I highly recommend this organic ghee over anything you can buy anywhere else. It’s the [...]

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In the heat of summer, check out this cooling shake made simply from two happy summer ingredients, watermelon and mint! Both are so naturally cooling and sweet that you won’t need to add anything else. Perfect to keep pittas happy when they are crankypants because it’s too hot ;)
Watermelon and Mint Shake
2-3 cups of seeded [...]

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Ok right off the bat, I am not a cook. However somehow, lately I am coming up with some really tasty recipes that I just hack together. One of my clients says she loves my “hack recipes.” Cool! A most recent hack recipe I am hooked on is making pesto from scratch. Hooked I say! [...]

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Woohoooo!! After a long time searching, I finally got a great kitchari (kitch-a-dee or kitch-a-ree) recipe from one of my fellow Ayurvedic students.
I love kichidi is because it’s wonderfully easy to digest, it’s a great source of protein because of the mung dal and itt’s a complete food. It’s excellent for detoxification and de-aging of [...]

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This tea is great for aiding digestion and to help ground the body and mind. Pacifying vata is important especially during vata season because vata is the quickest dosha to go out of balance.
4 cups of water
1 tbsp fennel seeds
1 tbsp coriander seeds
2 pods of cardamom
1 tbsp of sucanat or rice syrup (optional)
Heat water in [...]

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To keep agni strong, Indian lemonade is a great appetizer to make before meals. It’s not quite lemonade as us Americans know it. It is much smaller in quantity and it is used as a medicine to aid in digestion.
The ginger and salt are heating to the body which “stokes” our internal fire (agni). That [...]

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Ok, I have received a significant amount of resistance when I ask people to eliminate yogurt, so I would like to discuss.
There is a lot of advertising about yogurt and acidophilus as healthy bacteria/probiotics, good for the “waistline,” etc., but truth be told, yogurt is a channel clogger. It is exactly like jumping into a [...]

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What is Ghee? Ghee is clarified butter and the purest, most sattvic oil. When making ghee, you boil off the sugar, water and salts that are in the butter, leaving only the oil – pure fat.
Why is it good for me? Ghee an excellent aid for digestion since it increases agni (psst! It’s the only [...]

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