Wednesday, December 11, 2013

salty honey pie.


====beauties====
it's another baked good
it's all i seem to be good for these days
don't give up on me
there will be more on carrots & kale soon
there was a lot of applause, applause, applause
for this one on thanksgiving
so i am giving the readers what they want
(i hope)
this is a great one to bring
to the holiday shmoliday gathering

salty honey pie
(inspired by lottie & doof)

GATHER
1 single pie crust
1 stick/1/4 lb unsalted butter
3/4(or less)of cane sugar
1 tbs cornmeal
1/2 tsp kosher salt
1 tsp vanilla
(or vanilla paste)
3/4 cup honey
3 large eggs
1/2 cup heavy cream
2 tsp white vinegar
1-2 tsp maldon sea salt
(for finishing)

FIRE
preheat oven to 375
in a medium bowl, mix butter,
sugar, cornmeal, salt & vanilla
stir in honey & eggs
one at a time
followed by cream & vinegar

they want you to strain this... 
i did not and i am proud of it. 
straining big amounts of sweet
sticky stuff is not my thing...

i gracefully poured
it all in the pie shell
that i did give a little
melted butter painting to..

then i put it in the oven
on a cookie sheet for any drips & drops
in the middle rack 45 - 50 minutes
turning it around once at the half mark
look for edges to be puffed up high, edges set
and no more liquid in the center
that means she's cooked!

COOL
let cool and then sprinkle maldon
salt all over it like below

serves 8 - 10
it's so sweet that
it could possibly
serve more
enjoy beauties
xxxx
this is what it looks like
what a beauty!


PLUG
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xxxx

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

beauty love fest sessions.


:::::::BEAUTIES::::::

i am being swept up inside the holiday vacuum of hurry hurry hurry land with the deepest desire to take a few minutes every two to three hours to stop. stop the doing, breathe in, even if it's crazy time & fill in the blank __________ read a poem, rest, spoon some goat cheese on a carrot, close my eyes, stretch my hips, drink a glass of water, make a tea & of course turn on the oven, throw something in it with olive oil and salt. i feel terribly guilty that i was not on the black friday, small business saturday, cyber monday, fuschia tuesday, abundance wednesday train. my staff is in paris and it's just me in the office these days. 

yes, i do have something to offer.

recently, i am discovering the sweetest gift in my work. in my travels, kitchen to kitchen, finding the flow between nourishing ourselves & the lives we lead, reconnecting to the love inside our child's handmade trivet or grandmother's chipped tea cup; i am realizing that the healing is all inside the cooking. the healing is inside turning on the fire, it's inside yellow & white carrots, watermelon radishes, oro blanco grapefruits, the healing is inside warming olive oil, pink salt, whole, unpeeled garlic, it's (even) inside boiling water.

we do not need to stop everything and then cook. we need to cook it out. when we cook together, we heal together. duh. (and we can figure out what peeler you need & move around your silverware drawer while roasting a chicken).

you shop, we cook. 
or we shop, we cook. 
we reconnect
we heal
we nourish
we feel AMAZING.
repeat.

i think we will call it a beauty love fest.
what do you think? 

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three hour sessions with jules
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my work is about creating the space for beauty to inspire your story, healing to nurture your intuition, finding your way to cook simply, eat deliciously & nourish your blessed lifexxxx

Monday, November 25, 2013

thanksgiving.


it’s a thank you on thanksgiving
it’s a time to mash, to roast, to hug warmth
feasts laden with cobalt, sterling & boats of gravy
shine, shine, shine that silver

i am so grateful
and it’s one of those things that never fills me up,
I crave more
I want to thank the world
the threads in my clothing
the pores in my skin
the static in the dryer because I am so lucky to have a dryer, things like that

I want to hear what you are grateful for
and then I can say thank you for all of that too
I can fit everything into this huge belly
devouring this amazing life

it’s so important to drop down
to feel it all
to let that shutting down thing go
why be here?

why live life if you can’t feel anything or you only get to feel what you want? as though you are able to get down and deep into the molasses and pick and choose what feels good i wish or maybe I don’t but I was not given that choice this time around

I want unconditional
I want to feel it
I want to tear all of our clothes off and box this shit out
I want to peel it, shred it and then smear icing all over it

balance could work too

and then I want to drop down even deeper
like the big dipper, shine those lights, be who you are
most people will not understand and that’s ok
some people will hate you and that’s ok
i am so lucky that I have a body that loves me
i am so lucky
i am sad too
i am hurting with my heart so grateful, it’s potent with
rawness and fluffy like a yam soufflé
i am a feast
i am thanksgiving
all I want to do is thank you
and then I want to understand everything

wooden spoons, ivory iron clad casserole dishes,
amber glasses with iced tea
orange pekoe or English breakfast
she loved oolong and jasmine
but hot, at a chinese restaurant on a sunday

I want to know where I stand
where to hold your hand
so that I don’t hurt you
why are we friends
if all I do is hurt you
if you can’t tell me
then you don’t know me

I am growing everyday
I am thanksgiving
I am a survivor
how can you teach the class
if you have not survived
the way I have?

how can you be thanksgiving if I am thanksgiving?
what is this cul-d-sac sack in the middle of the highway?
I need to get around this
I need to drive past something that makes sense
I am lost and the maps burnt off the side of the boat
when I was praying for things like freedom and intuition and poetry sundried with copper river salmon

and it’s foggy in here
and I need some sunglasses
oh maybe this cat mask will do
it will lighten every one up and
I am grateful for being good at that too

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

banana curry cookies.






beauties!
introducing the
modernized
ginger snap
with a poem

hero
i am mashed up bananas
going whish, whish, whish
whipped by the paddle
stainless steel tub
i yearn for more.....
buuuuuutttttterrrrrrrrr
melting me
bumps in the road
every knot
nerve ending
GULP
i want to pack it up
light brown sugar
pat, pat, pat
pack me in
hold me down
tie my wrists
oh, not too tight
hand me a buoy
so i don't float
into the night sky
dollops of vanilla
1 beaten egg
foam and all
1/2 cup of chocolate chips
chugga chugga choo choo
i am on a train and the conductor
has no idea where to seat me
i am sticky, soggy, thick and tan
i have browned
all the spinning
'round and 'round
i am a hero
i need to sit down
slip into this crinkley
parchmont paper
oops i spilled me over
i need to lay down
totally surrender
to this round shape
i will eventually riiiissssseeee
i will grooooowwwwwwwww tall
and create a shape
i need all the heat i can get
i need to sweat this out
palm springs in july
i need hot hot hot
rise above
brown at the top
crisp on the sides
to know myself
in the heat
allow myself to let go
they will take me out
cool off on steel squares
i will try to avoid the nose
sniffing my survival
i have come so far
i am the little seed
no one is going to step on me
i cool down some more
i harden from the inside out
i am lucky
young eyes looking up at me
'mom, are they ready yet?'
the red head is talking about me
she wants me in her little watery mouth
baby teeth, small sweet tongue
i feel a lift
a body peel
that first bite
yummmmmmmmmm
i hear in the one ear i have left
i am a hero
i say to myself
i did my job here.

banana curry cookies
inspired by food52
*gather*
6 tbs unsalted butter, softened
1/4 cup light brown sugar, packed
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup mashed ripe banana
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 cup all purpose flour OR cup 4 cup
1 tsp curry powder
pinch of salt
3 tbs unsweetened shredded coconut
fleur de sal for sprinkling

*heat it up*
preheat oven to 300
cream butter & sugars
mash banana & add baking soda (set aside)
in a bowl, mix flour, curry & salt
mix banana in with vanilla too
add the dry to wet
fold in coconut
drop on cookie sheet/parchment paper
by the teaspoonful (little bites)
for 14 - 16 minutes and then sprinkle
fleur de sal while still warm
YUMMMMMM

please share in the comments below
they are definitely my new fall fave!
enjoy beauties
xxxx

holiday miracle
december 6
xxxx

Sunday, November 10, 2013

stew.







beauties!
the slow cooker is OUT
and this was it's first debut of
the season.... maybe 15 minute prep
6 hours in slow cooker while you do 
everything else you have been
needing/wanting to do!
(no brainer)

i needed some refreshers
so i looked at this recipe
and this one
then i made this up

stew
*gather*
1 lb. beef cubes of the best meat ever
a few carrots (2-3)
1-2 sunchokes (jerusalem artichokes)
a few frozen stahlbush farms peas
1 yellow onion
2 stalks celery
hand full of parsley/chopped if want
cherry tomatoes (cut in half)
thinly slices of fennel
bit of sage, 2 bay leaves, thyme
1/2 - 1 cup of red wine
1 - 2 cups of water
salt
(these ingredients were based
on whatever i had in the kitchen)

so here is the deal..
i just had to get all the ingredients
in the slow cooker & then i put it on high for 3 hours
hoping it would go to low setting while we were out
for 5-6 hours but instead it went to warm 
SO i put it on again (on low) the next day around 1 
for 4 - 6 hours... it was in the slow cooker
for about 30 hours by the time we tried it!

the meat was tender and the veggies were cooked
for you, i would say...  3 - 4 hours on high
and then 3 - 4 hours on low.. 
if you want it ready sooner than put the number
of hours you need on high

i feel that creating a stew (or anything
in the slow cooker) is a conversation
it's healing, nourishing and craves to 
be shared... please share your favorite
tips, ideas & beauty love fests!
big love beauties
xxxx

the fall miracle inspired
nourishing yourself
during one of the most
important times of the year!
when it's absolutely 
CRAZY!
i will share a lot of
holiday tips for delicious
& doable holiday recipes
we will feast on a full 
beauty love fest to inspire
you during this time along
with hold the space for
our stories xxxx

friday
december 6
10 - 2pm
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