Bok Choy Smoothie $2.00
Ok, so unless it’s in a Thai Curry, I find bok choy a bit difficult to handle. I’ll do it steamed with my special sauce, but during the summer, who really wants to turn up the heat? That’s why I created this recipe for raw bok choy. I’d hate to waste any of my local, […]
FREE YOGA at Hip Dhamma June 13- July 17
The Luna Free Yoga Series is giving away 500+ yoga class passes to 25 studios in the Tri-State area starting June 13! Sign up today at LunaFreeYogaSeries.com to be the first to know as studio giveaways are announced!
Sancocho Recipe and Lesson Plan
Sancocho (Soup) y Ensalada (Salad) Let’s say good-bye to winter with this warm comforting soup, and welcome in fresh greens with an enlivening salad. Sancocho recipe inspired by the Go Green East Harlem Cookbook. Read about how it became vegan here. Vocabulary yucca – a root vegetable starch – an important element of our nutrition. […]
Sancocho!
For the last day of winter, the kids and I created a warm and delicious sancocho, a stew that I first learned about while living in Santo Domingo. The stew is rich and creamy and contains a medley of soothing starches like yucca, yautia (we used yams), plantain, and potato. There’s something truly marvelous about the soothing quality of […]
Birthing and Blooming: The Divine Feminine Spring
*Art & Yoga Workshop dedicated to Spring and the Divine Feminine* Come explore the concept of Birthing & Blooming through yogic movement and paper crafting This is a pay what you wish experience. Suggested Donation – $15 RSVP here Participants will take part in one hour of open level yoga activity followed by […]
All Kale Everything Recipes/Lesson Plan
All Kale Everything – Massaged Kale Salad, Cheezy Kale Chips Lesson plan created by rachel bolden-kramer for culinary classes at Keys to Abundant Life Read about how the youth responded to the recipe and more here. Vocabulary Antioxidants – found in veggies, these help neutralize harmful free radicals that cause cell damage Brassica – the […]
All Kale Everything
All Kale Everything by rachel bolden-kramer Kids love anti-oxidant rich greens, a better source of calcium than milk, and with more vitamin C than orange juice. Don’t believe me, just watch. I have a food budget to spend on the last minute lesson plan I created just after receiving the call to substitute for the […]
Día de los muertos Lesson Plan
Soundtrack: Ozomatli Ozomatli featuring Cumbia de Los Muertos Santana Supernatural Vocabulary Words Altar, ofrenda. Altar is built and decorated with ofrendas, offerings to the ancestors Avocado. Great source of good fats, brown paper bag trick for ripening Cilantro. Flavorful herb found in traditional Mexican cooking STEM Science: heat, cooking grains and squash Technology: simple […]
Gazpacho
Greetings Readers! Here is my weekly recipe I create based on the weekly share of fruits and veggies I get from my CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). Our food comes from a local farm and is organic and fresh. At Central Brooklyn CSA, you can pay with EBT food stamps, which makes getting affordable food easy […]
Inaugural Yoga Event review
Greetings Friends and Neighbors! Last Saturday, August 4, 2012, Hip Dhamma celebrated the launch of our newest yoga/mindfulness program. Saturday Yoga in Bedstuy was well attended by neighbors and local community members. Much to our satisfaction, a large number of attendees were first time yogis! What joy Tanya and I felt when we had to […]
