flowering fennel.

hi beauties!

this weeks market find is....

flowering fennel!

you can eat those tiny yellow flowers and

they are packed with so much fennel flavah!

shake a bit onto your 3 minute egg,

a yummy salad, jam on bread

for an extra little zest of love.

i have them front and center

in a ball jar (filled with water)

to celebrate the beauty

of summer.. pick some up

or at least try a petal or two. 

these fennel flowers are from 

sabrina at shear rock farms. 

find her sunday in hollywood

tuesday in highland park

and friday in echo park.

enjoy beauties

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july 11

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ravenous.

ravenous

I am ravenous

(no second guessing)

learning who I am inside this feast

this beast

this breath

struggling to write

I hear my belly moan

what is her famous song?

downloading the exhaustion

the broken pieces

the sewn up threads

my boot straps are up

my bags are packed

for a quieter life

a place that feels like that first sip

the warmth softening me

inside that tea

she’s a muse for all of me

I want more of less

turn down the volume

slow the bus

oil up the joints

lets sit ravenous for the breath

ravenous to take off the masks

unveil, make room, stare at your face in the mirror for a long time

pregnant with producing, being, raising, growing,
cooking it all up

this stew of motherhood

ravenous to try it all on

ravenous to let it simmer for years

the fire will take care of the fat

I will try the innards, create a shape and call it a day

ravenous for this morning- this paper, this pencil, this limoges tea cup

stirring me round and round

ravenous for a chat

slowing down to let go

teaching the gospel before I know the lines

faking it before I am making it

sitting in lotus with my hips on fire

little bonfires in the bank accounts of my sciatica

my bones trying to tell me the story

in a language I only hear as pain

maybe its longing

maybe all I will ever know how to do in this life is write,

make a tea and breathe

I want to invite kindness to every party

let go of my expectations

I want to move my body in a way that says: I love you, I love every single molecule of you, I want to travel the world with you and the seven seas with you so that I might get a bit lighter

lose the barnacles that hold me here, the shackles of an agenda put here way before I got here--- trying to transcribe the language, decipher the font, a map nailed to those innards floating around me between the boiling bubbles and the toiling troubles

so sick & tired of sucking at this teet

to look for no mother in the room

all the babies in wide wood bowls

free to roam on cake plates

in their cozy vessels

where they are seen and heard, seen and heard, seen and heard!

when will that musical be over?

I have the playbill in hand turning to the page entitled

‘how to make a life’

reaching for some plain m&m’s

I sink down in my chair and

wait for the second act to begin.

summer miracle.

beauties

let's make a miracle!!

it's BEYOND GORGE

at the market these days

come to my kitchen 

for a beauty love feast

where you will be immersed & inspired

with a seasonal & intentional gathering

of food, poetry, ideas & more

nourishing YOU to nourish them

reconnect with your vital need for BEAUTY

(in and out of the kitchen)

bring your needs, your hunger, your stories

you will leave the miracle

transformed

inspired

sated

deeply nourished

informed

happy

loved

ready

excited

& LIGHTER

with abundant offerings

to continue the miracle at home

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JULY 11 2014

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santa rosa plum crumble.

summer is all about the crumbles

as is all the gorgeous deliciousness

that occurs in the bubbling currant beneath

the crispy buttery love fest happening up top.

they are also the EASIEST things to make

you can get fancy and try all sorts

but i like it with butter, flour & fruit.

that's how i roll (until time doubles).

here is one with santa rosa plums from

kens top notch produce. you can find ken

and his gang in hollywood on sundays and

south pasadena thursdays. you can also 

rock this recipe out with white nectarines, green

pluots (with the fuschia center), berries of all kinds

and peaches, yellow & white.. you can do this in a 

pie with crumble on top or a buttered dish square,

circle or oval.. there are so many ways to make this

sweet love party happen in your home.

so here it goes. 

the crumble

first things first

turn oven to 400

gather

1 stick unsalted butter

you can melt this or

chop into tiny bits

using a knife & your hands

up to you

easiest way: melt it

1/2 cup sugar

(some sugar depending

on sweetness of fruit)

3/4 cup flour (i used cup 4 cup

gluten free flour for this one)

1/4 tsp cinnamon

1/4 tsp salt

mix it

pour, cut, chop fruit*

into buttered dish or pie crust

in a separate, wide top bowl

mix everything else together

then crumble over the fruit

covering as much as you can

you can place it on a baking sheet

and then put it in the oven as it

might drip a bit with the fruit juice

you can bring oven down to 350-375

you can bake it for 30 minutes or so

depending on your oven and the fruit

sometimes it needs a lot more time

how will you know? 

when it's crispy and light brown up top 

with the fruit juice bubbling over and thru it

*note to self: add more fruit then you think

as it shrinks while cooking

let me know how you go beauties

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doing the dishes.

who knew having your kitchen sink on the outs

would be so much fun. this was definitely

one of those glass half full moments. it had been a few

days and the dirty plates with remnants of old scrambled egg

were beginning to pile up along with the ball jars, 

silverware & wooden boards. we were not able to use

the sink at all or it began to flood. this is usually

a moment where i need to breathe deeply trusting that

all will be ok. what really happens looks something like

oh sh*&($*#&, oh god, oh fu*@&$(*@#....

it was flooding the garage and the smell was not

apricot colored roses everybody.

at the moment, the only thing holding me together

(as i heard the big splashing sounds of water in the garage)

is the kabbalistic thought that a flood means abundance.

so you can bring that on right about now!

and....my main office is where?

yeah, you got it, the kitchen!

so, that was fun.

after a few days, i could no longer keep the

pile going around the sink (it was killing me).

at dinner, i told the kids that we are not only

going to take our plates up tonight, we are going to 

take them out on the patio, hose them down and

use buckets, sponges & soap oh my!

they were really excited.

they wanted their own sponge

(fyi, if you want to do this tonight)

we set up a big bucket and put towels out.

i couldn't believe how much fun they were having

scrubbing all the plastic yellow bits of egg, strawberry 

stained wood boards and more... they really got into it.

it was the new evening meditation

(not that we have an old one)

o asked can we do this every night?

i am sharing this because it was nourishing for each of us

in many ways: the simplicity of the fun, the feeling of the circle

of nourishment from gathering to cooking to cleaning where you

nourished from, doing it together, seeing how much they love to help,

to be apart of the process & how hard it was for them to stop.

i feel that i am always hungry for the

simplest things... this was one of them.

i would love to hear what is nourishing

your kids and family these days?

big love beautiesxxxx

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JULY 11

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spring quiche.

beauties!!!!

i agree, it has been WAY too long

i don't need to explain anything to you

because we are all living the dream together

trying to find the ground inside the groundlessness

breathing in & out with the noise

trying to magically create more time in the day

it's all going so fast, so fast, so fast

so here is another pause for us inside all the fast

this pause includes haricot vert & plum radishes

it also includes, hold the phone, whole cream

(BLISS PANTS)

SPRING QUICHE

*this makes 2 quiches*

(you can call it summer

if you need too)

gather

seasonal love

haricot vert

(string beans)

spring peas

asparagus

cherry tomatoes

plum radishes

shallots

green garlic 

olive oil

salt

4 eggs

parmesan

goat cheese

mozzarella

butter

whole cream

crust/gf crust/no crust

work it 

turn on stove to medium fire

grab a saute pan with plenty of room

chop the green garlic & shallot

in a pan with olive oil

massage dish or crust with melted butter

turn oven onto 400 bake

saute all your seasonal veggies

whatever is inspiring you these days

when done//take off the eye//let it cool off

in a big bowl mix 1 cup whole cream

2 whole eggs & 2 egg yolks

shredded cheese of your choice

a little salt

then add your saute mix to the bowl

mix everything lightly together

scrape into pie dish or pie crust

you can use a baking sheet below the pies

for dripping & makes it easy to put into oven

cool it down

you've got to slow it down

ooh watch out

your going to lose control

let it cool all day if you need

lay a beauty towel over it

we have been loving this on the wbl

with a salad, roasted veggies & prosciutto

this is a 1-2 kind of recipe

it's just a one, then a two & done

that is how

fast can

slow down

just a bit

oh and it's delicious

so the pause is more than worth it

let me know how you go

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SUMMER MIRACLE

JULY 11 2014

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