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Nicole Crabtree
Jan 7, 20234 min read
Oatmeal cookie bites/Bichermuesli in a biscuit
Enjoy this tasty cookie which checks important boxes for health. Go make them, they are good for you and taste good too.
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Nicole Crabtree
Oct 8, 20211 min read
Cory’s apple cake desert, breakfast, snack
This cake meets the challenge of being sweet, easy to eat, and having sufficient protein – a component missing in most ‘Italian breakfast.
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Nicole Crabtree
Apr 2, 20213 min read
Melanie, her coffee and the Sambhav foundation from CH to Nepal
Meet Melanie, buy coffee direct from Nepalese coffee growers, discover Sambhav CH & contribute in your way to healing, personally & globally
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Nicole Crabtree
Feb 19, 20212 min read
Голубцы – stuffed cabbage rolls a personal winter comfort food
On 17 February 17, 2014 my Dad left the world as we know it. This post is for him. I'm certain he would have enjoyed the stuffed cabbage too
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Nicole Crabtree
Jan 22, 20212 min read
Time travel with the 46th president and a Russian parfait
Russian parfait, a dessert simple, elegant, and decadent and full of hope, humanity, and possibilities all at once.
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Nicole Crabtree with video support from Kenan
May 22, 20202 min read
Asparagus risotto a Salute to spring
Giant green stalks. Affectionately known among friends here as ‘sparkles’, a play on the German word for asparagus, ‘spargel’. Russian...
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Nicole Crabtree with recipe from continuing guest
Apr 26, 20202 min read
Ceci, my favorite bean
Chickpea. Garbanzo beans. Ceci. Chana. Gram. Top top mama. Nohut. Whatever country you’re from whatever you call it, this beautiful bean...
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Nicole Crabtree with recipe by Barbara Marchiando
Mar 30, 20203 min read
Coconut – Southern India and Sri Lanka in a nut and a cookie, literally
Bunny & the Bearli's admire coconut palms at sunset on the beach outside our guest house Whispering Shells in Kalutara, Sri Lanka. King...
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Nicole Crabtree
Aug 4, 20192 min read
Summer Salads - eating in a heat wave
A new Turkish salad bowl, colorfully calling out to be filled with summer salads. Global warming, diet inducing? Eating in the heat can...
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Nicole Crabtree with guest Angela Lanza and lead
May 8, 20193 min read
The banana and its role in the ideal breakfast bread
As a rule, the banana and I are not on good terms. Years of constipation already had me avoiding the banana. Even promises that it was a...
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Nicole Crabtree
Apr 2, 20191 min read
Asparagus, nature announces spring
Left Bunny about to dig into her first asparagus Milanese of the season; right various asparagus in season in Bologna street market...
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Nicole Crabtree with recipe contribution of Linda
Mar 15, 20192 min read
Sauce or gravy?
Mom's spaghetti sauce, in her special sauce pot. Spaghettis sauce could be the epitome of why food speaks to me. Growing up in a “Latin”...
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Nicole Crabtree
Mar 1, 20191 min read
FOOD & Culture 2019 Nutritional Therapists & Health Coaches meeting client needs across cult
Once again, my NT alma mater IINH, gave me the opportunity to lead an interactive session titled Food & Culture with fellow Nutritional...
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Nicole Crabtree
Feb 21, 20192 min read
Bunny's only dessert: Maggie's gluten-free chocolate orange cake
Bunny poses with Maggie's gluten-free chocolate orange cake at a birthday celebration. Straight to the point - Bunny and I basically have...
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Nicole Crabtree
Jan 14, 20191 min read
Русский старый новый год – Old New Year Russian Style
Center me, circa 2006, with my Christmas present and newly knitted accessories, ready for the old new year; top left on the ice new...
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Nicole Crabtree with guest Linda Androvich
Dec 8, 20183 min read
Mom & Nana's Anisette Cookies
There are certain tastes and smells that make a holiday come alive, and for me, my mother's anisette cookies are Christmas. When I was in...
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Nicole Crabtree
Nov 18, 20187 min read
Thanksgiving - gratitude is an everyday holiday
Two years we shared super happy Thanksgivings with Mary & Mehdi Jazayeri, in the full spirit of communal preparations and sharing of...
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Nicole Crabtree
Oct 23, 20182 min read
Ode to the Crock-Pot
Fall is my favorite time of year, colors, crisp breezes, and warm food. As a young person, I was always fascinated how my mother managed...
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Nicole Crabtree with video by Eizabeta Ak &
Sep 15, 20184 min read
Food Speaks for IWCL: using food to express gratitude
At table, 7 of the 8 women from 8 countries attending IWCL cooking class, 8th taking the photo When I came to Lugano in 2007 it felt a...
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Nicole Crabtree with guest Giorgia Colombo
Jun 1, 20182 min read
Giorgia's Granola
Granola is one of the foods that was healthy, and then got highjacked. The granola bar of my youth was little more than sugar (or eeh...
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Nicole Crabtree
May 1, 20183 min read
Artichokes: Anti-inflammatory Thistles from Heaven
Photo courtesy of google, artichokes in their natural growing splendor May, proud month of the artichoke. Spring vegetables highlight...
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Nicole Crabtree with guest Carol Switzer
Apr 21, 20182 min read
Charlie's Vegan Birthday Cake
Charlie's 17th birthday cake, an artistically sophisticated version of the original - same cake inside Recently, Carol, an imaginative...
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Nicole Crabtree with guest Alli Zeper
Apr 1, 20182 min read
Easter: Bunny's Bread Holiday
Challah bread photos courtesy of google. Recently in Beretta, my favorite bakery in Como, Alli and I were discussing the delicacies of...
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Nicole Crabtree
Feb 16, 20184 min read
FOOD & Culture Nutritional Therapists discuss meeting client needs across cultures
Last night my passion for food and culture had an exciting milestone. Just in time to celebrate the year of the Dog, I had a chance to...
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Nicole Crabtree & Angela Lanza
Feb 15, 20183 min read
What does a Dog cook for 2018, year of the Dog?
The Chinese year of the Rooster (2017) had a slightly simpler connection to a specific dish, I posted my favorite soup which coincided...
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Nicole Crabtree
Feb 5, 20183 min read
FOOD & CULTURE: What's for breakfast?
Bunny on the breakfast table, observing the feast, in the garden in Sariyer. Breakfast is my favorite meal and it is the meal which...
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Nicole Crabtree with special guest Rossella
Jan 20, 20182 min read
Spinach Egg Soup - Milanese Style
One of my favorite things about winter cooking - one pot meals - which lend to hearty soups and natural kitchen meditations. Recently, at...
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Sep 22, 20172 min read
The Language of Food: Food Speaks
These spectacular soft shelled crabs were made to celebrate my Swiss citizenship, me, CRABtree, now Swiss. They seem an appropo way to...
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