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  • Chocolate Frosting

    1 cup heavy cream

    8 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped (more…)

  • Banana Bread

    If I have three super ripe bananas, I just can’t do anything except make Banana Bread (especially if my mom is in town).

    Cream:

    1 stick softened butter
    ½ cup turbinado sugar (or light brown sugar) (more…)

  • Granola Protein Bars

    This recipe is super delicious, super easy and versitile. Feel free to substitute almond butter for peanut butter or change up the seeds with nuts (if i were using walnuts or other big nuts i would chop them).
    If you have a little food processor, it is really nice to grind up the oatmeal some and also the raisins. The ground oatmeal helps make it less sticky and chopping or grinding the raisins helps hold it all together.

    This recipe is easy to mix by hand if your PB is room temp. Otherwise, if you have a standing mixer, it is well worth the effort to use it! You can make this gluten-free by using gluten-free oats and granola.

    1 cup raw oatmeal (optionally ground)
    1 ½ cups granola
    ½ cup sunflower seeds
    ¼ cup sesame seeds
    ½ cup coconut, finely shredded
    ½ cup raw honey
    1 cup raisins (optionally ground or chopped)
    1 ½ – 2 cups organic peanut butter (ideally room temp)

    Directions

    Protein Bars
    1. Oil a baking 9×11 baking sheet
    2. Place all dry ingredients in a large bowl or standing mixer. Mix to combine.
    3. Add the wet ingredients and form into a firm paste. You may need to add more peanut butter or honey if the mixture is too dry. Add the chopped/ground raisins and mix.
    4. Press the mixture into the oiled container.
    5. Cover the pressed mixture with wax paper and place in the refrigerator for 2 hours.
    6. Cut into 24 bars and serve.

    Store in an air-tight container or wrap individually in plastic and store in the refrigerator.

  • Welcome to Vermont Center for Acupuncture & Wellness new location

    I am delighted to welcome you to my beautiful new office space. Located 4 blocks north of Church Street at 161 North Street. Enter through the front gate or park behind and come through the back gate. (more…)

  • New Office Renovation – After & Before

    December 2011 was spent renovating as close to 24/7 as possible. Finishing touches in January and here’s the result. The photos do not do justice to the utter transformation, but here it is.

    This is the bay window in the waiting room and the reception room, After and Before:

    (more…)

  • 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. (more…)

  • March 2 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

    Steamed buns, dumplings, rolls and sauces
    Here’s a sample of our Chinese New Year’s Feast

    Steamed Dumplings with Shrimp and Pork

    Ginger-Soy Dipping Sauce

    Fresh Vietnamese Summer Rolls

    Hoisin Sesame Dipping Sauce

    Spring Rolls

    Indonesian Chicken Satay with Peanut Sauce

     

  • 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.

     

  • 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.