About

Me:

Winnie100I’m Winnie Abramson. I have a degree in naturopathic medicine and I am the recipe developer, writer, and photographer here at Healthy Green Kitchen.

I launched this blog in May of 2009. It’s where I fuse my passions for home cooking, holistic nutrition, and green living. I enjoy sharing my favorite healthy, seasonal recipes on the blog, as well as my adventures in organic gardening, backyard chickens, and beekeeping.

My parents owned the famed Quilted Giraffe restaurant in New York City when I was growing up, and I’ve been cooking for as long as I can remember. After college, I spent five years studying naturopathic medicine at Seattle’s Bastyr University. I graduated with a doctorate in 1998. After practicing for several years, I changed gears to focus on writing about nutrition and the connection between good food and good health.

I live in upstate NY with my husband, two kids, and many pets, including a flock of laying hens and a hive of honeybees. I love sharing my experiences in and out of the kitchen and hope to inspire others to cook more, eat better, and live greener.

My Recipes:

The recipes I feature here on Healthy Green Kitchen are the recipes I make for myself and my family.

I am not a professional chef, but I’ve been cooking for most of my life. I’m pretty adventurous in the kitchen, but I gravitate toward recipes that are simple to prepare. I’m a busy person and I assume you are, too…most of my recipes can be made in less than half an hour. Some take longer, but most of the time required is “hands-off”.

Because I have a background in holistic medicine and I’m passionate about nutrition, I try to make my recipes be the healthiest they can be, while still being delicious.

I consider myself a “flexitarian” (meaning I eat a largely vegetarian diet with occasional consumption of everything else). But it’s a big world of eaters out there, and I want my blog to be friendly to anyone and everyone interested in healthy eating.

For this reason, you will see that my recipes are fairly eclectic, and run the gamut from raw vegan to vegetarian to gluten-free to some that include fish and meat. I love experimenting with foods from different regions/cultures around the world, so the ingredients may not always be familiar, but they are never impossible to find.

My recipes are based on real foods only- I do not use fake/processed ingredients. I try to focus on seasonal, local foods and I use the best quality, mostly organic ingredients that I can find for reasonable cost. Whenever possible, I use vegetables from my own garden.

I hope you find some recipes that you like, and that you enjoy my blog.

You can search my recipes below by category, ethnicity, and ingredient. I also keep a frequently updated recipe index here.