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Coconut Curry with Chicken Tofu and Vegetables

By Kelly Kaeding | Published: May 7, 2025

Through the years many people have asked me for this recipe. I like to spruce up the basic curry with lots of veggies to make it super delicious, but keeping it simple works well. Curry is very flexible, so see what’s in your fridge and use any protein and veggies that you have available. If […]

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The Healing Power of Chicken Soup: A Remedy for Upper Respiratory Infections

By Kelly Kaeding | Published: November 6, 2024

By Shawndra Meader, FNTP, MScN Chicken soup is known as a comfort food and traditional recipe the world over. While it’s difficult to narrow down the location of the roots of this ubiquitous medicine, it is widely believed that chicken soup as we know it today has its earliest origins in ancient China and Egypt. […]

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Japanese Beef and White Sweet Potato Stew

By Kelly Kaeding | Published: January 28, 2022

Simple and delicious. The base is bone broth, tamari, ginger with sweet Japanese cooking wine – slow cooked stew beef with Japanese white sweet potatoes. Yum. A hit with the kids. Ingredients 2 pounds local stew beef (boneless chuck 1 – 1 ½ in chunks) 3 cups bone stock or broth (chicken, turkey, beef) ¼ […]

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Soup Basics: How to Make Soup in 6 Easy Steps

By Kelly Kaeding | Published: February 10, 2019

If you know the basics of soup making, you don’t need to follow the recipe word for word, but instead can glean inspiration from recipes and use what you have on hand. With a nice sharp chef knife, a cutting board and a Dutch oven there are endless possibilities. See equipment below. Step 1: Soup […]

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Veggie Compost Broth

By Kelly Kaeding | Published: February 9, 2015

Keep a bag or quart container near your compost bin. When you find scraps that you’d like to use in your stock, toss them in the bag and put them in the freezer. Store the bag in the freezer and bring it out when you want to use it. onions, garlic, scallion, leek ends carrot, […]

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Bone Broth

By Kelly Kaeding | Published: January 12, 2015

Bone broth is deeply nutritious. The collagen gets pulled out of the bones and is the best medicine for our bones (way better than Calcium tablets!!). The broth will thicken up when it cools. The thicker the better. It’s like liquid essence. You can use either beef marrow bones or shanks, and/or chicken bones. Also […]

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Slow Cooked Chicken Coconut Curry

By Kelly Kaeding | Published: January 13, 2012

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 […]

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Pineapple Avocado Gazpacho Smoothie

By Kelly Kaeding | Published: June 3, 2011

I just LOVE this!   ¼ pineapple, chopped (about 1 ½ cups) 1 avocado 1 T red onion or scallion, chopped Handful of cilantro Juice of ½ lime (or more if it’s not particularly juicy) ¼ t sea salt ½ chili (optional)   Put it all in the blender, push the button and you’re done. […]

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Vietnamese Chicken and Rice Soup (Chao Ga)

By Kelly Kaeding | Published: March 19, 2011

This recipe accompanies Vietnamese Chicken and Cabbage Salad   Put in a large soup pot: three local organic chicken legs approximately four quarts of water 1 t salt

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