May 2013

Come and have some tea!

We love this time of year at Wellspring Holistic Center because it means we are able to make the entrance into our building even more inviting by adding beautiful flowers! This year we even put out a bench so that you can come and just visit with us and have a cup of tea, whichContinue reading “Come and have some tea!”

Kitchen Experiments – Lentils with Spinach and Shitake Mushrooms

I really like lentils – red, black or green – soup, stew, loaf – almost anyway you cook them, I love them! Once again this recipe came out of the necessity of finding something to eat for dinner that was different but easy and definitely delicious. I had made something similar to this previously beforeContinue reading “Kitchen Experiments – Lentils with Spinach and Shitake Mushrooms”

Kitchen Experiments – Granola in a Crockpot

I am all about having the right tools in the kitchen to make life easier. When I counsel people on how to improve their diets a common complaint is “I just don’t have time to cook good meals!” My first response to this is: “what kind of tools do you have in your kitchen?” ThisContinue reading “Kitchen Experiments – Granola in a Crockpot”

Spring Time Recipes for the Wood Element

Spring is a time of growth, when the shoots that have been sleeping all winter, begin to awaken. In order for those shoots to survive, they must have within them the ability to bend and stay supple. Any rigidity in the plant will cause the new growth to break off and die. The wood elementContinue reading “Spring Time Recipes for the Wood Element”