this is the bay window in the waiting room after and before
The waiting room from the other direction, after and before
The reception room after and before:
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Prep for Spring Cleansing
The Spring energy is building with the longer days and, ahem, the lack of snow! With it comes the desire to do some cleansing – but what is appropriate? The weather is still cold so lots of fruit smoothies would be too cooling for our bodies. Save the longer deeper cleanse for when it’s hot during the summer. In the meantime, do a couple shorter cleanses.
Late winter cleanse:
Eat lots of green leafy vegetables, roasted root vegetables, cooked whole grains, beans and legumes and a little meat and fish.
Avoid: Alcohol, sugar, dairy & even flour products.
Max one cup of tea or, if you must, coffee, without milk
Drink a glass of warm water with lemon every morning upon rising. Try to make your dinner early and light. Don’t have any snacks after dinner – just herbal tea.Go to bed early before you get too hungry!
Choose the amount of time that feels right for you. I would recommend 7-10 days on average. If you find it easy then go for a whole month or perhaps 3 days is enough for you. You could always repeat it again next month.
Exercise – move your body – get your Qi and blood circulating! Yoga – walking -dancing – skating…
Meditate.
Do the best you can and if you “fall off” just get right back on.
Keep one of the new habits after the cleanse period is over.
Sample meals:
Oatmeal with almond milk, nuts and raisons, Scrambled eggs and sautéed collard greens, Kale and white bean soup, Buckwheat noodles with stir-fried vegetables, ginger and chicken, Poached fish with roasted roots and steamed vegetables, Short grain brown rice with avocado, carrot slivers and lox served with seaweed sheets – everyone can roll their own nori roll.
Spring cleanse:
Follow the above plan, including more raw vegetables and fruit, lighter meals, less meat and root vegetables. Still continue to have lots of warm foods such as soup and steamed vegetables. If you want to have more liquid meals, puree whatever soup you are making.
Try to balance the sweetness of the fruits in smoothies with fruits with lower glycemic index fruits such as cherries, blueberries and especially avocados. Also add some protein and fats – almond butter, walnuts, coconut or protein powder. Warming foods such as ginger, cinnamon and raw cacao.
Savory liquid meals may even contain onion and chills as in Pineapple Avocado Gazpacho.
Increase your exercise – step it up. Bike – run – martial arts.
Summer cleanse:
Follow a program such as Clean for the full 3 weeks and see how little food you really need. When the weather is hot, smoothies and juices are so refreshing.
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Shonishin – Full Moon Fridays 2012
One Friday afternoon each month Kelly holds a walk-in Shonishin clinic. Shonishin is a gentle balancing treatment for kids and babies. Monthly treatments can help boost and maintain your child’s health.
Chinese New Year menu
HAPPY YEAR OF THE DRAGON
Last year I cooked up a storm for Chinese New Year. This year I was busy doing other things (see next post).
Chinese New Year menu:
Steamed Pork Buns aka Banh Bao
Here's a sample of our Chinese New Year's Feast
Steamed Dumplings with Shrimp and Pork
Indonesian Chicken Satay with Peanut Sauce
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Year of the Water Dragon 2012/4709
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR
2012 is the year of the Water Dragon 
The Dragon is a symbol of good fortune and sign of intense power. This is an auspicious year and particularly favorable for ambitious people. Start early in the year and persist. Don’t give up and you WILL succeed.
In 2012 the Yang Water Dragon Year starts January 23, 2012 and ends February 9, 2013. The energetic high point of the year is the dragon moon, which is from May 20 to June 18 (new moon is May 20, full moon is June 4 and dragon moon is over June 18. June 19 begins the snake moon, which will set up the energy for the following year, 2013, year of the yin water snake.)
Years of the Dragon
1904 * 1916 * 1928 * 1940 * 1952 * 1964 * 1976 * 1988 * 2000
Sign of the Dragon
Dragons are free spirits who feel that rules and regulations are made for other people. Dragons must be free and uninhibited. Dragons are confident, fearless and almost inevitably successful if they don’t allow their pride to get in their way. Dragons are generous and attract friends, but tend to be solitary at heart.
PHOTOGRAPHS by Kelly Kaeding
The above photographs were taken in Chinatown Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in 2000.
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Slow Cooked Steel Cut Oats
Get this together before you go to bed and you will wake up to the BEST oatmeal.
In a pyrex, ceramic or metal bowl, combine:
1 cup steel cut oats
4 cups water
pinch of salt
Put the bowl in the slow cooker. Add enough water in the bottom of the slow cooker (under the bowl) to cover the water/oatmeal line in the bowl. If you have a programmable slow cooker like mine, set it on low for 7-8 hours and it will go to warm after that (which makes getting the bowl of oats out of the hot water bath easier). Otherwise cook it on low overnight, turn it off as soon as you get up.
In the morning you can top with whatever you like: the traditional raisons, maple syrup, milk and cinnamon or try it straight up with a fried egg.
Now that you have had breakfast and your slow cooker is till clean, make dinner. Prep the veg the night before so you can throw this together in the morning.
Slow Cooked Chicken Coconut Curry
The house will smell so good when you get home if this is in the slow cooker.
Toss the together into the slow cooker and cook 6-8 hours on low:
4-6 bone-in chicken thighs or 3 chicken legs (the marrow in the bone makes a tasty broth and is chock full of nutrients)*
6 shallots (or 1-2 onions)
1 sweet potato, peeled and chopped
2-3 potatoes, peeled and chopped
1 red bell pepper, chopped
8 crimini (or other type of) mushrooms, stems removed and quartered
½ bunch of collards or kale, chopped small (or add spinach at the end)
2 stalks lemongrass, smash with handle of a knife and then chop into 1 inch pieces**
1 T ginger, peeled and minced
1 T curry paste, panang, red, yellow or whatever variety you like***kid-friendly
1 t salt
cover with water
after it has cooked and you are almost ready to eat, add:
½ cup coconut milk
spinach or chard, chopped, if you didn’t use collards or kale
splash of fish sauce in each bowl or 1 T in the whole batch
a squeeze of lime in each bowl or a whole lime in the whole batch
garnish with cilantro
optional: cook rice noodles and serve soup on top. if adding curry paste to individual bowls, add the curry and a little broth first, then the noodles, then the rest of the soup, coconut milk, lime and garnishes.
*ideally: cook the chicken first overnight in the slow cooker or for a couple hour in the morning to make a broth. You can pull the chicken out and skim it. Then add the rest of the ingredients and reduce cooking time to 4-6 hours.
**don’t eat the lemongrass chunks
***kid-friendly - if only some people in your family like spicy food, omit the curry paste and instead put 1 t curry + 1 T hot broth into each bowl, stir to combine, then add the rest of the soup. You can do the same with the coconut milk if you want, adding a little into each bowl and giving a stir.
Really, Really Good Apple Cake
When I asked my son what he wanted me to make for a little tea party we were having, he said “really, really, really
good apple cake.” I said ok, and here it is.
I found this recipe to be very quick – I just threw everything into the mixer bowl, one by one. It is also quite forgiving. I forgot to add the apples to the batter and instead put them on top of the batter once it was in the pan. I only had ¼ cup of nuts for the topping instead of ¾ and I also forgot to put the cinnamon in the topping, and sprinkled it on top instead. No one had a clue how scatterbrained I was that morning – they just wanted the recipe.
Take the butter, yoghurt and egg out in advance to soften. Adjust oven rack to the middle position and heat the oven to 350 degrees. Generously butter the bottom and sides of a 10 –inch spring form pan.
First prep the apples and let cool.
Sauté in
1 T butter,
2 large apples, peeled and chopped into ¼ inch dice. (I did this the night before).
Sprinkle the bottom of the pan with:
breadcrumbs, flour or cornmeal, shaking light to coat, tap out excess.
Whisk in a large mixing bowl until blended:
2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1 cup plus 2 T granulated sugar
1t salt
Add to flour mix:
10 T unsalted butter, softened but still cool, cut into pieces and then cut in a little with a pastry cutter or two knives. Then blend with your mixer until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Remove 1 cup of this mixture and save for topping.
Whisk into the flour mixture in the mixing bowl:
1 t baking powder
½ t baking soda
1 t cinnamon
Then add:
¾ cup plain yoghurt (not low fat) or buttermilk at room temperature
1 egg, room temperature
1 t vanilla extract
Whisk vigorously until the batter is thick, smooth, fluffy, and frosting-like, about 2 minutes.
Fold sautéed apples into batter. Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top.
Add to reserved crumbs of flour, sugar, and butter:
¾ cup walnuts or pecans, chopped fine
½ cup dark brown sugar, packed
2 t cinnamon
Toss with fork or your fingers until blended. Sprinkle the crumbs over the batter, pressing lightly so that they adhere.
Bake the cake until the center is firm and a cake tester comes out clean, 50-55 minutes. Transfer cake to wire rack; remove the sides of the pan. Let the cake cool completely, about 2 hours, before serving. When completely cool, the cake can be slid off the pan bottom onto a serving plate.
Enjoy. We sure did!
This is the Apple-Cinnamon variation of the Old-Fashioned Crumb Coffeecake from Cook’s Illustrated.
Fall Pediatric Shonishin Clinic starts Monday October 10, 2011
Starting Monday October 10, there are 6 opportunities this October to get your child’s energy balanced. Kelly is offering a Shonishin Pediatric Walk-in Clinic at her office – 65 Pearl Street in Burlington. No appointment necessary. Just come to the office during clinic hours!
Shonishin is a Japanese treatment especially for babies and kids. Special tools are used to gently tap and brush the surface of the skin and press acupoints – harmonizing energy and strengthening overall constitution.
It is ideal to do a series of 3 shonishin treatments close together in order to rebalance the energy pattern, especially when there is a health issue. Following up with weekly treatments until symptoms subside and then monthly maintenance. Kelly will be holding monthly Full Moon Friday Pediatric Clinics on the Fridays preceding the full moon.
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Cucumber sandwiches
This is one of my son’s favorite (healthy) snacks.
Schmear a little goat cheese between two slices of cucumbers.