Wishing everyone a very Happy and Healthy 2015! Selling our home in July was a big move for our family. We are still in a small apartment and I just couldn’t get myself into the holiday mood. One thing I learned being in a small apartment is that if you buy anything for your home, it becomes crowded and …
As we featured a couple matcha recipes, here is one more way that you can use your matcha: Tofu Matcha Smoothie. Since matcha is fresh steamed and dried green tea leaves it has a very high content of chlorophyll. This makes it super alkaline and helps your body detoxify. Add tofu to the mix and you …
Meditation has become a practice that is recommended by many practitioners including therapists, new age gurus, health specialists, religions, spiritual seekers and even doctors. So, what is meditation and why is everyone recommending it? Meditation is the practice to clear the mind. Just imagine a clear glass filled with water. You can see right through …
Last week I posted matcha cookies, today is a rice cake. Matcha is a very fine green tea powder that is used for Japanese tea ceremony. With a very distinctive fresh clean taste, today matcha is enjoyed in ice-cream, desserts, chocolate, lattes and many other delicacies. My favorite is the matcha ice cream. The other …
I love to share art and culture from Asia. This is a guest post by Amandine Dowle on Korean Crafts exhibited in Milan. Aren’t they beautiful? I’d love to have one of those meditation bowls in my home! I wonder what they would sound like…. After the success of the exhibition devoted to Korean crafts …
Matcha is a powdered Japanese green tea made from very young leaves. This gives it a very vivid green color and clean taste. When combined with butter, matcha makes a savory buttery cookie with a hint of bitterness yet very flavorful. The Japanese have a wonderful recipe exchange website called Cookpad, that my Japanese girlfriend turned me on …
