Holiday Health Hazards and How to Avert Them – with SVA Tips, Recipes, and much more!

  Let’s face it – the holidays can be mentally and emotionally stressful! In addition to our ongoing daily professional or familial obligations, we may find ourselves carried away by the whirlwind of back-to-back parties; endless shopping lists; painfully crowded malls and supermarkets; under-the-gun baking, cleaning and entertaining; family obligations and traditions that may involve […]

An e-mail about paneer and raw milk…

“Hi,I made paneer for the first time ever today. It didn’t seem to curdle in a large enough clump. Is there a recipe for how much milk to boil and how much lime juice to use? Also, wondering about using organic raw milk, with any of the natural cow hormones, since I had estrogen-positive breast […]

Cooling Summer Dahl with Toru and Lime Leaf

Be transported and soothed by this delicious recipe with Toru (this is an IndianĀ  squash, very cooling, that has deep dark green ridges on the outside and a soft white inside) and the refreshing hints of lime leaf. It is a great summer-evening dinner dahl to cool off pitta and nurture you with easy-to-digest protein. […]

Coconut Matters! Scrumptuous Coconut Chips

It’s time to do something with the coconut you have been storing in your fridge/freezer after making the probiotic coconut recipe for the past week. Of course, if you are not up to eating the coconut at this point (if you have a cold, or the weather where you are is really cold and you […]