Home About Lifely Rice Diet Glossary Q&A Consulting Contact WHOLEFOOD CUISINE NEWSLETTER Sign up to receive a weekly peek inside our kitchen. Taking a Break to Reorganize Debra Redalia   Photo: Kathleen Clements Design   Over the weekend, it finally became clear to me that I need to get a new desktop computer. It had been having problems so I took it in and didn’t have a computer for four days so couldn’t write this week’s posts. And at the end of all that they couldn’t even diagnose the problem. So now it’s get a new computer and transfer all the data and re ..read more

Home About Lifely Rice Diet Glossary Q&A Consulting Contact WHOLEFOOD CUISINE NEWSLETTER Sign up to receive a weekly peek inside our kitchen. Stuffed Grape Leaves (Armenian Sarma aka Dolmas) and Armenian Rice Salad Debra Redalia   Traditional Armenian stuffed grape leaves (sarma) that my grandmother taught me to make   NOTE: You can make this recipe with grape leaves, cabbage, or swiss chard leaves. Larry and I live in Sonoma County, California—the “Sonoma” of the internationally famous Napa-Sonoma-Mendocino wine region—so we live surrounded by miles of vineyards ..read more

Home About Lifely Rice Diet Glossary Q&A Consulting Contact WHOLEFOOD CUISINE NEWSLETTER Sign up to receive a weekly peek inside our kitchen. Cooking With Leaves Debra Redalia   Since this week’s recipe is about cooking with grape leaves, I thought I’d share this very interesting cookbook with you that is all about cooking with all different kinds of leaves. Leaf: Lettuce, Greens, Herbs, Weeds – 120 Recipes that Celebrate Varied, Versatile Leaves is unique among cookbooks because instead of focusing on the type of dish—such as how to make crepes—it focuses on the dif ..read more

Home About Lifely Rice Diet Glossary Q&A Consulting Contact WHOLEFOOD CUISINE NEWSLETTER Sign up to receive a weekly peek inside our kitchen. Eliminating Single Use Plastics From Your Kitchen Debra Redalia     Sometimes I come across articles that are so well written I don’t see any point in rewriting them myself. Such is the case with How To Tackle The Single-Use Plastic Crisis in Your Kitchen which appeared in the Serious Eats blog this week. With all the take-out food from the pandemic, the use of single-use plastics is at an all-time high, with correspondin ..read more

Home About Lifely Rice Diet Glossary Q&A Consulting Contact WHOLEFOOD CUISINE NEWSLETTER Sign up to receive a weekly peek inside our kitchen. Whole Water Goes With Wholefoods Debra Redalia     On this blog, we’ve been talking about whole food, so I thought we should also look at the idea of whole water. Just as our bodies need the nutrients from whole food that are not present in processed industrial food, so too do our bodies need nutrients (such as minerals and electrolytes) found in clean whole water from Nature.  Tap water does typically contain these ..read more

Home About Lifely Rice Diet Glossary Q&A Consulting Contact WHOLEFOOD CUISINE NEWSLETTER Sign up to receive a weekly peek inside our kitchen. Frozen Fruit Water Debra Redalia   I just took these two glasses of frozen fruit water out to Larry who was working in the sun and he drank both of them right up. “MMMmm this is nice!” he said.   We live in a climate known as “coastal” where it’s pretty termperate most of the year. We often wake up to foggy skies or the fog comes in late in the afternoon, but in the spring days are cool even during the sunny part of the ..read more

Home About Lifely Rice Diet Glossary Q&A Consulting Contact WHOLEFOOD CUISINE NEWSLETTER Sign up to receive a weekly peek inside our kitchen. My Simply Scrumptious Saturday Sandwich From the Farmer’s Market Debra Redalia     Larry and I just had to share this sandwich with you because we were enjoying it sooooo much! All the ingredients except the mustard are from our own Sonoma County and even the mustard is from our home state California. The bread is from an amazing local bakery called Revolution Bread which does not have a retail store but appears at two of ..read more

Home About Lifely Rice Diet Glossary Q&A Consulting Contact WHOLEFOOD CUISINE NEWSLETTER Sign up to receive a weekly peek inside our kitchen. Garlic Through the Seasons Debra Redalia   Suddenly, last week, the garlic sitting in a bowl on my kitchen island started sprouting!   This post was originally published in February 2021, but I’ve been moving it up in the blog as we move through the seasons of the year. Over the winter, around early December, I think, I purchased a whole bag of whole heads of garlic that were on the discount cart at my local produce stan ..read more

Home About Lifely Rice Diet Glossary Q&A Consulting Contact WHOLEFOOD CUISINE NEWSLETTER Sign up to receive a weekly peek inside our kitchen. Definition of a Lifely Food Product Debra Redalia   These raw fermented organic olives from Good Faith Farm would be a lifely wholefood product.   This post is an application of my Definition of Lifely Products on my Lifely website. It is a work-in-progress and will likely evolve as I gain more experience with lifely products. Wholefood Cuisine has as it’s focus the idea of eating whole foods instead of industrially proc ..read more

Home About Lifely Rice Diet Glossary Q&A Consulting Contact WHOLEFOOD CUISINE NEWSLETTER Sign up to receive a weekly peek inside our kitchen. The Continuum of Food Products & the Journey to Wholefood Cuisine Debra Redalia   I’ve written a whole post on this subject at LIFELY: The Continuum of Products & The Journey to Lifely Products. In this post, I am applying the basic principles from that post to food. I have observed a steady progression of products that have more and more lifely characteristics. Market sectors have emerged with names that identify cert ..read more