Tomatoes are one of the Mediterranean kitchen’s great gifts-full of antioxidants like lycopene, gentle acidity, and natural sweetness that deepens beautifully when baked. Using tomatoes in the season is a blessing.

Tabbouleh - a Mediterranean classic that is both refreshing and healthy salad. However, in its original version it's not suitable for celiac patients nor diabetics, as bulgur wheat contains gluten and raises sugar blood levels. Here, I've replaced it with my beloved millet, on which I have elaborated elsewhere, added roasted almonds and pickled lemon in addition to the usual greens. A wonderful salad to accompany a spring meal. What's inside? 1 cup millet A bunch of parsley

Many ask me what else can we eat for breakfast besides porridge? By and large, porridge , of any kind, would be my first choice and my recommendation to 90% of my patients. But what can we eat when we're bored? In the past I recommended healthy pancakes and now, Ada, a dear friend, has prepared sprouted millet tortillas that are snatched even before you finish making them (as breakfast or lunch/dinner). She chose millet because she knows how much I praise its qualities as

And so again, I return to millet, my favorite grain and hopefully for my patients as well. Why? According to Chinese medicine it is a both cooling and drying, and in the 21st century diet, this can only be healthy (to most patients). For diabetics , for overweight people, for high cholesterol - all are manifestations of heat and damp-phlegm. And again I will repeat this - millet has no taste on its own – it will take whatever you give him. If you make a pot left unseasoned,