Whole food recipes

This collection is pulled from a number of sources: culinary school collections, chefs, cookbooks, special diet experts, and a few of them are my own. While they are all very different, they share one thing in common: all of the them are designed strictly from whole, minimally processed foods, and they taste amazing. Bon apetit!

Muesli

Whole food recipes

Ingredients: 2 cups gluten-free rolled oats 1/3 cups each: sunflower seeds, chopped almonds, fresh berries of choice 3 cups water 1 apple What you need to do: Combine oats, seeds, and almonds. Pour water over mixture and mix lightly. Cover, allow to stand overnight. In the morning grate apple into muesli, add berries and mix [...]

The best brownies you’ll ever sink your teeth in

As you can probably tell by the recipes I have on my website, I am not big on baking. Partially because I know if I make something really good, it will be difficult for me not to eat it all in one sitting. And, partially because baking is an exact science: you must follow the [...]

My special Ginger-Turmeric Tea

Disease prevention

This tea is a-m-a-z-i-n-g! It’s amazing because not only is it tasty, but it can help you fend of f a cold or a flu, it has anti-inflammatory properties, it is great for digestion, it supports the immune system, it has cancer-fighting abilities, it is used for weight management and fat metabolism, it helps reduce [...]

Tunisian inspired chicken with veggies over lemony couscous

Whole food recipes

My husband and I were in Whole Foods the other day and I saw 12 free range, organic chicken drums on sale for just over 5 bucks! No way I’d turn down that kind of a deal! I grabbed the drums and thought up this dish. It turned out spectacular. And yes, I used the [...]

Pasta with creamy oyster mushrooms and peas

Whole food recipes

May I just say that this creamy goodness caused a lot of jealous tension at the office. It smelled great and people wanted it. Sorry to say, I ate it all myself. Alright, here is the scoop. I got the idea for this dish from my Russian roots. My mom used to make some seriously [...]

Red lentil soup

Whole food recipes

I got an inspiration for this soup a few years ago from a book called The Cancer Fighting Kitchen. Thanks to turmeric, lentils, tomatoes, this recipe has oodles of goodness in it: fiber that assists with the digestive system, curcumin present in turmeric clinically proven to protect against colon cancer and a natural anti-inflammatory agent, [...]

The real Russian buckwheat bowl

Whole food recipes

Do you know that you can eat buckwheat straight up? Yup. Boil that baby and dig in! Yes, I know, it’s easy for me to say it and to eat it. When you grow up in Russia, buckwheat is a staple food, and you eat it for breakfast (with sugar and milk), or as a [...]

Three-bean chili

Whole food recipes

Ingredients: 1 medium onion, chopped pinch of cinnamon (optional) 2 carrots, peeled and chopped 1 sweet bell pepper, cored, deseeded and chopped 3×15 oz cans of beans: you can use whatever your heart desires. I used adzuki, black and garbanzo; other types work just as well, for example navy, white, pinto, kidney, etc. 1×28 oz [...]

Hummus with a special twist

Whole food recipes

Ingredients: 15 oz BPA free can of garbanzo beans, drained and rinsed well 1 tbsp tahini paste juice of 1 lemon 1/4 cup of extra virgin olive oil 1-2 cloves garlic, crushed 1 tbsp Za’atar What you need to do: Place all ingredients except for Za’atar into a food processor or a blender and mix [...]

Oriental brown rice and salmon medley

Whole food recipes

This medley comes in handy especially when you don’t feel like spending an arm and a leg on a bunch of salmon filets to feed the whole family. Yet, with this dish, you’ll still be getting those nourishing Omega-3′s along with all kinds of other goodness such as whole grains, fiber, vitamins, and minerals. How [...]