Butternut Squash Pear Soup from Anna Thomas's The New Vegetarian Epicure

Please note there were two chefs and one followed the recipe and the other modified.

1 lb butternut squash (about 10 oz trimmed and seeded)

1 large yam

2 cups vegetable broth

11/2 cups water

1 stick cinnamon

3/4 tsp salt

2 Tbs. Butter

2 medium onions. sliced

3 large Anjou or Bartlett pears

1/3 cup dry white wine

1/4 cup half and half

white pepper to taste.

optional garnish: chopped chives or sprigs of cilantro

Peel, seed and dice the squash.  Peel and dice the yam.  Put them both in a pot with the vegetable broth, water, cinnamon stick and slat and simmer until tender, about 40 minutes.  Discard the cinnamon stick.

Melt the butter and gently cook the onions in it, stirring occasionally, until it begins to caramelize.  Peel, core and thinly slice the pears and add them to the onions. Continue cooking for about 5 minutes, stirring often.  Add the wine, cover and simmer for 20 minutes.

Add the pear mixture to the soup and puree everything in a blender in batches. Add the cream and some white pepper, and a bit more salt only if needed.  Heat the soup angain just to a simmer, but do not boil.  Serve plain or garnished with chopped chives or sprigs of cilantro.

Serves 6-8

Modified version

coconut oil instead of butter

coconut milk instead of half and half

one onion instead of two

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Inner Ecology Meets Outer Ecology - Cooking Class

Inner Ecology Meets Outer Ecology

Learn how the inner ecology and outer ecology work together.

Join Deana Guadagno Brooksher DC for A Body and Soil Cooking Class.

This class will teach you:

 Principles of nutrition and eating

How to safely cleanse and support your digestive system

How to cook with local food in season

How to create delicious healthy meals

Resources for finding these foods

This Program will:

Eliminate sugar cravings

Reduce emotional roller coasters

Reduce bloating, gas, body odors

Eliminate candida and other parasites

Prevent cancer, arthritis and auto-immune diseases

Unload unhealthy weight

Promote overall well-being

Contribute to a more sustainable lifestyle

The class will be held at the Stovall House in Sautee, GA.

We will meet from 6:30-8:30 for 6 Thursdays October 14^th-November 18^th.

The cost is $200

There is a limited number so pre-registration is required.

To register please call Deana at 706-754-8899.

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Deana Brooksher, DC's Bio

Deana Brooksher DC graduated from Life University in Marietta, GA in 1997 as a Doctor of Chiropractic, with the clinical excellence award.  She founded The Center for Holistic Health in Decatur, GA in 1998.  Inspired by her monthly hikes at Panther Creek, she decided to leave the big city and simplify her life.  She sold the Center of Holistic Health to her colleague and friend, Dr. Gene Clerkin and moved to the mountains in 2004.  She opened A Garden for Wellness in Sautee, GA in 2007 and moved it to Clarkesville in 2010.

A Garden for Wellness is a multi-disciplined clinic and the expression of Doctor Brooksher’s understanding of how to optimize our experience in a body.    Anyone with a body and a commitment to optimal function can find what they need at A Garden for Wellness.  The modalities available are safe, effective, affordable and conservative.  They come from ancient healing traditions as well as progressive new thought paradigms.  All modalities are evidence based and are proven to work.

Deana Brooksher was inspired by her mother’s losing battle with cancer to find a better way for others to manage and heal pathology.  “I knew in my heart, the way children know stuff, that there had to be a better solution than declaring war on a body and cutting out its parts and killing its cells chemically and reducing a human spirit into a corpse in survival.”

Her training covers a wide variety of healing modalities including Network Spinal Analysis, Somato Respiratory Integration, Structural Integration, Applied Kinesiology, Sacro Occipital Technique, Soft Tissue Orthopedics, Active Isolated Stretching and Strengthening, NLP, Nutrition and Yoga.

Doctor Brooksher is an active member in the community.  She serves on the board at Foothills Counseling, she and her partners sponsor the farmers market in downtown Clarkesville and is an active member of the Chamber of Commerce.  She is a reverend of the Madonna Ministry and Unity Church.

She is passionate about facilitating a healthy inner and outer ecology.

She is available to share her expertise in Network Spinal Analysis, Somato- Respiratory Integration, Nutrition and Yoga upon request.

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