Category: Dairy Free

See Sarah Making Black Bean Soup Here– Easy + Healthy! ((CLICK TO SEE VIDEO HERE)) Just loving this little winter recipe lately, especially for all the variation possibilities that you can tweak and twist to your own liking. Take the basic recipe below and embellish however you’d like.  Other great additions could include: avocado, organic […]

Want to cure your holiday hangover and get back to good already? The best advice I can give you is this: Eat dark leafy greens. Every day this week. Spinach, collard greens, arugula, chard, or the most trendy and healthy of them all– kale. Now, I know that a raw kale salad doesn’t sound appealing […]

Just because there’s no sugar added, doesn’t mean this sauce isn’t sweet + delicious. Using dates and apples instead of refined white sugar (or worse–  high fructose corn syrup from the jellied cans), balances the natural acidity of the cranberries in a natural way– and in a much healthier way for your body and blood […]

“Stuffing” and “healthy” rarely hang out together in a sentence. Or, at least, “stuffing” + “food that’s not bad for you”. Well, they’re about to have a grand old time this week on the SRH healthy Thanksgiving countdown. If you’re just tuning in, we’re shaking up the classics in just enough of a way that […]

I ate sweet potatoes and yams as a kid. And liked them. Really. Liked them. As long as it was 1) on Thanksgiving and 2) as long as they were covered in massive amounts of puffy marshmallows. Which means I ate only marshmallows for Thanksgiving dinner. After trying– desperately– to wipe off with the stubborn […]

THE VIDEO + RECIPE How To: Make Spaghetti Squash Ingredients: 1 spaghetti squash (or a few if you have the oven space) olive oil + sea salt + pepper Directions: 1. Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees 2. Slice bottom and top ends off of the spaghetti squash and discard. Stand the squash up, vertically, on […]

So, usually my rule is that if something sounds too good to be true, it usually is. (Wahh. Wahhh.) I’m not a pessimist in life. Promise. Just when it comes to magical food claims. It’s just that I know they don’t work. Let’s take these common phrases and buzz words: calorie-free, sugar-free, fat-free, gluten-free, and agave […]

Simply Real Health In The Kitchen: Episode 1: How To Make Soup. Click here to watch! Are you ready for the easiest soup ever? ANYONE can do this. You need 3 ingredients, 2 spices, and 7  minutes (or less!) As if that weren’t enough, this little number is pretty great tasting, made with 100% real […]

Some people travel and bring home cool trinkets, art, books or clothes. That’s really nice. And normal. Me, on the other hand. I bring home way too many pictures of what and where I ate. And drank. And the streets that I walked to get there. The classic and ultimate move of a food-dork. I’m […]

I love it when healthy food is all the rage. Trendy, if you will. That’s how I know it’s ok to post it. Other people besides me think it’s cool. I know these might be a little too trendyhealthy for some of you, but they pass my taste test. Even more than that though, they […]

Sometimes being on the spot is a great thing. This summer, its been a great thing over here. For all of  us, really. That fact that 2 of my favorite summer dishes have come from client cooking sessions– in which I am showing a certain technique (usually how to make healthy “make ahead” dishes for […]

Sometimes inspiration for healthy dishes happen to me when I least expect it. Like in the middle of vacation. In Maui. In the middle of cocktails, in the middle of laying on the beach, in the middle of a great book. You never know. We had stopped at this roadside juice bar for a bite […]