START SPREADING THE NEWS: NYC MIRACLE!

BEAUTIES

RISK TAKERS

CURIOUS & HUNGRY

COME ONE

COME ALL 

TO THE FIRST

NYC MIRACLE

what is a miracle day?

it's a day to be truly inspired & deeply nourished

with beauty & abundance in food, poetry, laughter,

discovering our stories, our basic needs & our hunger.

it's a day to begin the conversation:

what does it feel like to live a nourished life?

what happens at the miracle? 

it's a day that moves the rut, shifts the stuck,

nurtures the depletion, clears the confusion,

lightens the heavy, creates the space & time for you

to be with you and a few other amazing women.

OCTOBER 5, 2014

10 - 3pm

UPPER WEST SIDE

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10-1-2014

SPACE IS LIMITED

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you will be fed a farm to table feast of locally

grown deliciousness & beauty throughout the day

 love from miracle beauties:

Thank you very much for nourishing my body, mind and spirit. 

I stepped through my front door about 45 minutes ago with

invigorating inspiration. The fruits in my bag are now nourishing

my children's and husband's bodies. They enjoyed every piece of it,

and the rosemary is in water. Thank you for providing a safe,

loving space for our journeys to meet through conversation.

You are amazing!

I'm feeling really good. Much more aware of the kids food intake

and how it impacts their emotional well-being...and mine!!

It really was a life changing moment in time.

Thanks so much for giving so much to all of us.

i will be offering one-on-one healing sessions

& kitchen consults while i am in the city.

you will receive a free 20 minute skype session

by signing up here for a session. 

START SPREADING THE NEWS!

if i can make it there

i'll make it anywhere

it's up to you

NEW YORK

NEW YORK

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crepes.

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i was thinking a little crepe inspiration might hide

the fact that i have been MIA from the blog in almost

a month.. yikes! you are on my mind ALL the time!

i am always thinking all kinds of things to share with you

to post real quick and then before you know it...

i am caught in the storm, i can hardly find the ground

and then i land in the hopes that i still have my body intact,

i guess all of this to say that i miss you, i miss me here,

i miss the consistency of the blog, sending it out to inspire and nourish

your journey in and out of the kitchen. i guess what it really comes

down to is we are all going thru this storm together and i ain't hiding

the fact that my staff hasn't showed up here at white oprah

headquarters.... WOH!

they are coming, it's just a longer commute than i thought. 

i have been super uninspired lately... yep, you heard that right.

the one who inspires gets in a bored out of my mind rut too.. which

is also fueled by the non-stop life that is happening around me

at a pace that includes a lot of the same ol' same ol' ... so i reached

out to the amazing & inspiring nigel slater one night.. one of the many 

things i love about him and his books is the simplicity to his approach.

so incredibly simple. i decided i am going to make crepes to get out of

this hole and it worked! they created so much joy, with b helping me and

o creating his own... it was a good start out of the rutxxxx

CREPES with raspberries, peaches & strawberries

(nigel slater refers to these as pancakes in notes from the larder)

2 tbs+ some for cooking//butter

2/3 cup cup4cup flour or other flour

1 tbs superfine sugar

1 large egg and 1 extra yolk

1 1/2 milk

stewed fruit

first, i threw a ton of fruit in a big saute

pan with a little butter & a tiny bit of water

i had that on low thru this entire process

then....

melt butter in a small pan and then cool

sift flour, pinch of salt into a large bowl

mix in sugar, make a well in the center

and add the egg & egg yolk, plus cooled

melted butter, stir gradually adding milk to

form a smooth batter, leave for 1/2 hour

(not sure if i did this or not...we were hungry!)

use a 8" or 9" nonstick frying pan with melted butter

i used a 2 tbs scoop to put batter in pan but you can use anything

you feel comfortable with and then spread it out like you 

are trying to keep a tennis ball on a tennis racket (kind of)

spread batter around to make it thinner

then see how it begins to bubble and use a little spatula

to life the sides and flip it over.. i like having a plate on the

stove top where i place the finished crepes so i can keep going

 nigel bakes these crepes with the stewed fruit inside

 after all of the above! that is not the kind of life i am living

as i had vultures that looked like my kin around the stove

waiting to be fed! also, i added some wedges of lemon &

powdered sugar with a sieve to add to the inside of the crepe.

ENJOY BEAUTIES

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more recipes soon

(i promise!)

the fall miracle is

september 18th

click here to sign up

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slowwww saute with my abuela.

it's been a summer of deep transformation over here....

discovering new depths of healing

the various shapes of being in my body

noticing how i open my heart for surgery

my awareness to my own suffering

getting real honest with what i carry around

and inside all of this, i am breathing, a lot.

what i mean by breathing is i get up at the

crack of dawn, slowly walk up the stairs

on my tippy-toes, (praying not to wake up

the freedom takers) sit on the patio

for as long as i can and breathe.

during this transformation, i have been hungry for round

thick vessels to warm the lightness of cherry heart tomatoes,

creamy zucchini varieties, yams and sweet onions which is

what is above in the picture and on the stove right now!

the vessel is a gorgeously round clay pot called a cazuela.

it feels like there are stories, hands, elders and travels

cooking up my nourishment in the cazuela

which i really want to call my abuela ;).

i am hungry for this slowness of the saute, the

natural rhythm of the story, the offering of the pot. 

my hunger doesn't seem to be getting old

so i thought i would share it with you beauties!

you can use any pot of course!!! don't let anything stop you!

get out your biggest, most round pot and start chopping

vegetables to throw in there. my favorite is starting with a base of

chopped sweet onion,

olive oil and a bit of garlic

so that whatever veggies you put in will be sweet!

today i threw all of the veggies mentioned above

and then added the macadamia nut pesto on top

with some roasted carrots....

yes to a total love fest over here

sending love to you beautiesxxxx

(now go turn on the fire!)

night of nourishment.

beauties,

so grateful to travel with my

wood board & bread knife to 

yogala in echo park where 

i am honored to be collaborating

with lauren spencer king in her

breathwork meditation class

after the meditation

i will guide a nourishing circle

with wood board love, poetry &

a below the neck chat

i hope to see you there

xxxx

good here.

good here

my hair is on fire and i am feeling everything

dipping, steeping, beauty believing in me

over and over again in all the languages

being seen here and being heard here

having all the right tools here

efficiency is the name of the game
in a copper house with transparent walls

the madness makes it good here.

i am biting at the bit, my mouth like the scape of a horse

i am bulging out of my pants, oozing out of the zippers

my bones enveloped by the taffy like land that had me at hello

please buy some carrots, figs, cucumbers and watermelon radish

put them on my eyes and lets make a face

i want to pop, i want to pop up shop

letting go is the name of the taco stand

healthy heaps of salsa and guacamole

i can hardly keep my eyes off you

pop goes the weezel
raccoons and zen masters

i want to travel with this circus

maybe on one of those long dirt roads

i will hear myself inside the dust and the fog

maybe I will not care about what you think

and you

and you

maybe it could be real good here

lobsters and drawn butter

the innocence of a summer

string lights and picnic tables

i will start believing in me

wearing my apron, jeans and pastel cottons

i will try not to fall asleep as we had ideas
desires of it being good here-

i really want so much that I can’t stop--
i want me and i want you
i need a thousand naps and I want to perform more than I knew

i want to be good and i want to make it

i want to figure it all out and then write lots of easy books,

easy to read & easy to write

i hear beauty

her foot steps and her one sock nap

our time is up.

i have to turn this off to start again

i want to do it better

less heavy
more light

half and half is perfect for me

i like it in my tea
warm with brown sugar cubes from france
turquoise birds on the box, the kind of box you want to keep
the kind of box that says fancy and barefoot, more money than god
but groundless and breathing, what trip to take, fearless about life,
homeschooling and showering in the same week
that could be good here.

GMO OMG.

beauties!

i am very passionate about this film.

(shocker)

i am sharing it because the topanga film festival 

will be screening gmo omg this saturday in topanga canyon.

i am going! will you come?

all of these incredible films that document about our food,

our agriculture system, our land & our health are so brave.

i feel deep respect & appreciation for their effort to tell the real story

of what is happening in our country. they are drawing the map for

how we make our everyday choices in gathering, cooking & living.

these filmmakers are our modern day shamans. 

the topanga film festival will be screening amazing films

all day on saturday, july 19. they all look deep & inspiring.

you can read more about the line up of films here.

gmo omg will be screening at 4pm at

froggy's on topanga canyon blvd. 

buy your tickets here. 

you can watch the trailer here.

if you are not in los angeles, please check the

gmo omg site for screenings in your area.

the more people know, the more we can deeply

nourish ourselves, our world & our children. 

big love beautiesxxxx

wood board love//post-market moment.

hi beauties!

this was so yum & love

i had to share it with you

this was a post-market moment

where b & i were just too hungry to get

anything together... you know what i mean? 

(i didn't ask b if she was hungry or what she wanted)

i created the board with what inspired me at

the market and what was close by in the baskets

the goal: to deeply nourish us

i turned on a bit of fire with the toaster ;)

so here it is.. a small farm to table love fest

with all the farms to shop from on sunday in hollywoodxxxx

 WBL//JULY

cut up white nectarines (kens top notch produce)

cherry golden tomatoes (harry's berries)

fat & crunchy spring peas (givens farms)

avo mash with salt & lemon (jj cole's daughter)

sour dough toast with apricot honey (drake goat cheese)

goat cheese & smoked salmon (cookbook market)

i would love to see YOUR wood board love

that you are creating this summer

please send your pictures in and i will post them

big love beauties xxxx

independence day parfait.

so this story began with a desire for ice cream

but the bowl of the ice cream maker was not frozen yet!

so with the hunger high for a sweet treat

i had to come up with something on the fly....

and the independence day parfaits was born!

this is the simplest desert

and of course you can do a brekkie one with 

yogurt & granola too.. this is 100% whole

whipped cream with a little pour of vanilla &

powdered sugar added... oh and the love in there..

it's like no other!

 o & b wanted to help

so they filled the jars

and whipped a bit too

it's a family affair with the parfait

i think it took all of 5 minutes!

PARFAIT

gather

strauss whole cream

(they are not paying me/

just have to share the love)

powdered sugar

vanilla extract

locally & organically grown

sweet blueberries

strawberries

raspberries

& ball jars

then....

whip

stack

eat

enjoy your family

red, white & blue

big love beautiesxxxx

summer miracle

next friday

july 11 

get it here

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