Contemplative Recipes: Spring
meandering springtime
it is early May when
a small herd of five Jersey cows
walk from the barn and out towards their first taste of spring grass.
fill up her cup
We stood at the stove together, my guest and I, peering into a pot of bubbling soup.
Vegetables rinsed, chopped and layered in together, the conversation flowed easily, anchored down in moments of pausing, sensing the ingredients and their evolution before us.
A quiet settled in.
Contemplative Recipes: Autumn
Kitchen warming...Memories stirring
It’s late winter, tree branches bare outside Pete’s window as we stand inside by the stove and in the quiet of his kitchen. 72 and a retired working man, I’m there to help him roast his first chicken....
Tune into what lights you up.
It's the end of a long, draining day, the darkness of November 2020 has set in. My body stiff with stress, now flat out, depleted and deflating onto the couch, attention straining towards glimmers of rest and renewal....
Contemplative Recipes: Winter
delicata squash meditation
A visual recipe + meditation to help you experience the calm of cooking, and reverence for the ingredient, while celebrating the winter season.
cooking for the courageous
Let me tell you about a kick-ass woman I’ve been lucky to meet, whose voice I hear first across the telephone line, frail, 90 years old, and quiet. She invites me into her home for tea and here we are seated at her kitchen table and she looks into my eyes and tells me how hungry she is....