mothers, miracles & wood board love (oh my!).

BEAUTIES!

this conversation about food, eating, feeding other, feeding me, 

connecting to my nourishment, my food story, your food story

and my constant hunger for this entire feast began when i fell

in love. it was another medium in which to give myself to my

beloved while mixing, mending & breaking my heart open

inside a warm soup or a sweet scone. the only thing that has changed

is i have fallen in love with so many! ocean & beauty keep me

inspired, asking me questions in the kitchen, asking the whys & hows

about food & life as i keep them busy with the basics of how to feed,

nourish and heal themselves in this way.

i share this with you dearest beauties because with

mothers day approaching i am offering a new service called

wood board love sessions. this is a private session in my kitchen 

where i feed you & your son, daughter or loved one the seasonal

beauty of the market while inspiring the opportunity to talk about food,

nourishment & how it's all happening in your everyday lives.

you can read more & sign up here.

and....

mothers day miracle on may 9!

reserve your wood bowl here (it's already filling up!).

bye bye spring break!

it's time to recharge and re-inspire you, your mother,

your loved ones with the beauty & bounty of spring.

every miracle is mothers day so this is going to be off the hook!

make room for your needs, your nourishment, your hunger

with amazing women, a farm to table feast & recipes for life.

big love beauties

xxxx

FIVE.

dearest blog, 
you are 5 today.  you have been the ground in which to sew & save the swatches of my story; no matter how strained, sieved or stressed life may be, you are my witness. i write, upload & link while you put my voice out there for all to read, feel, see & taste. i am so grateful for our journey together. here is the first post i published called hungry mother. i feel as deeply connected to the words today as i did when they ran out of my fingers five years ago. i had no idea what i was doing, i just knew i was hungry mother of a two year old boy.  sweet community of beauties, thank you for reading, sharing & holding the space for my musings on motherhood, food & fire. i am so grateful for youxxxx

i am starving for this conversation to begin....i want to ask questions, write lists, hear your stories... i want to understand, get underneath, turn it over & see the other side of this place where we are connecting to our kitchens...this daily piece of feeding other, our kin, ourselves.. it's deep inside. how we were fed and what surrounds that for each of us... and now we are the mamas, we are the wives, we are the women creating the meals... we are nurturing, providing, gathering, hunting, feeding, creating, birthing, businessing, parenting, saving the planet and on & on....we are the renaissance mamas...yearning for the basics in a world that is full to the brim with new, quick, easy & cheap. 

give me the ground... the warm, thick soil, roots to something deep...traditional, memories, recipes, stories told in the kitchen... we are the change... 

soft

body

radiant

beauty

beginning

wooden spoon

catalyst

light

fly

compass

yearn

union

belly

sanctuary

we are returning to this place in all of us that is screaming to be heard, that we may not even remember....with passion, fear & unbelievable courage....cooking meals in the kitchen that you love, sating these creative pieces in us, stirring in our shamanism, mixing with a new consciousness to bake on high and rise.  

creating tradition from scratch & beginning a movement....

black banana chocolate bread.

(note: the hand....love.)

(looks like a late night of partying/baking)

+++beauties+++

there is definitely something inside

of baking that makes the hard stuff soften 

and melt or maybe its about making

room for something warm & lovely 

inside the rough edges of life

what do you think? it's not a quick fix

but a super delicious bandaid!

i am deeply in love with notes from the larder

by nigel slater (xmas gift...thanks bestie!)

it's an annual kitchen diary where nigel jots down

his sweet musings & recipes about food & life

it's simple yet wonderful and beautiful

i am really enjoying it. this recipe does not take a lot

of time & ingredients to make it happen

(it also sates the don't waste anything part

of me with the black bananas)

here is nigel's chocolate

muscovado banana cake

gather

2 cups all-purpose or gf flour

(i used cup 4 cup)

2 tsp baking powder 

1/2 cup butter/softened 

1 cup + 1 tbs muscovado sugar

14 oz (i think it was 3) super black bananas

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 eggs

1 bar (3.5 oz/100g) of dark chocolate

make it happen

butter loaf pan & line with parchment

sift flour & baking powder

cream butter & sugar

(till fluffy and pale coffee color)

mash bananas in bowl

(keep it lumpy)

stir in vanilla extract

beat eggs lightly with a fork

then beat them into creamy butter/sugar

chop chocolate into small pieces

(like fine gravel)

fold them into bananas/butter/sugar mixture

gently fold in powder & flour

scrape mixture into line loaf pan

bake for 50 minutes

test it with a skewer

if it comes out clean: awesome

if not: put foil over it and in for a few more minutes

let it settle in the pan for about 15 minutes

then take it out to cool

i wrapped the bread in foil & kept it out

it didn't last long in my house!

it's also a great gift

enjoy & let me know how you go

big love beauties

XXXX

goldy soup.

when all else fails: i make soup.

here is one i came up with last night

that turned out like a velvet cozy sock

or maybe it felt like a glove

well, whatever the case it tasted kind

and loving to my 'everything is in retrograde'

theme i have been swimming inside of lately

with a salty top of parsley & avocado

it nourished the chaos inside me for a moment

or possibly two...

the story starts with a half of a cauliflower

that was left in the fridge

so i chopped it up

cut up some turnips

peeled & chopped some carrots

with my regular base of 

sauteed yellow onion & green garlic

1-2 vegan bullion (repunzel)

a little bit of salted butter & olive oil

mix it all around

on a medium setting

let it get a bit glassy

add all the veggies

then add about 5 cups of water

bring to a boil

back down to simmer

let it cook for 1/2 - 1 hour

use the immersion blender

(you can also wait for it to cool 

and use your blender!)

& voila.. i served it with 

a super light cheese quesadilla

& guacamole.. i have been keeping

parsley & edible flowers in ball jars

on the table so the medicinal conversation

can stay open in terms of what i feel like

adding to my dish! it's another way we can shift

the subtle tastes of our meal in a creative way

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