Consistency

 

Awkward Airplane Balance Pose

Simple. Strong. Everyday. 

🐭

🍂🧡🎃💛🌻

- 💚BAKE zucchini bread. 

- 💛Light a CANDLE at dinner.

- 🧡Autumnify the NATURE TABLE. 

- ❤️UNEARTH the winter socks. (And pants, and hats, and mittens…)

- 💜CRAFT in the common family area.

Bolognese with 🍰 & photos

Marjaryasana - Cat pose / Adho Mukha Svanasana - Downward Facing Dog Pose

 “I KNOW we didn’t have dinner! Because I DON’T remember sitting down together !”  

The family sit-down dinner is steadily back in fashion as baby gets increasingly older. And the children very much rely on this ritual. 

You can find us at home cooking (and eating). Alfresco. 

Schweet

Sukhasana - Easy Pose, Sirsasana II - Tripod Headstand 

Homemaking is love - giving the gift of beauty, comfort, fun, happiness, health, hope, joy, magic, safety, security, success to those in your home. And this life-styling is modeling a concrete methodology for your kith and kin to recreate inner peace and outer beauty for themselves and others anywhere, anytime. 

Home schweet home. 

Swedish

 

Utkata Konasana - Goddess Pose with forward bend

Hands on ankles, arms follow leg shape

Lighten your hair in Summer by swimming (in salt water) often, often, often and - no rinsing - allow to sun-dry. Also, concentrated Chamomile Tea, Lemon Juice, raw Honey with Cinnamon, Olive Oil, diluted Hydrogen Peroxide 😉 (aka Sun-In) and … SUN SUN SUN.

Best of Aspen

 

Blue Cookie Muncher Ice Cream 

PARADISE BAKERY, Aspen

 

💚🌳En route to the muncher 🍨 💙

Summer Elixer

 

CLEAN with bar soap 🧼 

SCRUB with sugar/salt + lemon, honey, vanilla, olive oil 🧂🫒 

MOISTEN with coconut oil, castor oil, beef tallow 🧉🐮

SOOTHE with aloe, lavender essential oil, ice 💜🧊

Hip to my Hop

🍬 

Sometimes a little piece of candy (or gum) is all the pick-me-up you (your passengers, fellow travelers, skiers, hikers, shoppers or meanderers), need to restore that Springy bounce in your step. So, have a small 🍭 stash on hand.  

My mother is known for licorice or caramel. I carry anything mint chocolate. The kids and their father go for peanut butter. Gum is always a crowd pleaser… you ??? 

How to lose 5 lbs

 

Phalakasana — Forearm Plank Pose, Dolphin Plank Pose

 

Personally, abstaining from TV is all it takes for me to eschew mindless noshing. How to curb snacky small screen marathons? Books! Lots of them. From the library. Stacked high on the bedside, the stories beckon me out of the chaotic kitchen to the orderly upstairs dormitory, sometimes as early as 8pm …

yum yum rainbow fun

“JELLO” is a pretty anytime crowd pleaser. Great for when kiddos are sick.

A fabulous rainbow lined up in the fridge! I use collected recycled glass containers and jars - gelatin looks appealing and electrolyte powders often have delightful colors. If the flavor has less tint, fun shot glasses acquired on our latest vacation do the just the trick.

Find what you like about shopping, cooking, preparing FOOD and work that angle …

Shortie from Scottie

 

It’s that wonderful time of the year !! Shortbread from Scotland. 

Kids love to use it as their cut-out and embellish cookie dough; so easy to mix up we do it nearly every weekend of the season. 

get over yourself!!

Eat whatever you like and get on with your life.

Be grateful to have food and choices. Be extra grateful if someone is willing to feed you. There is no such thing as a bad food. Stop taking yourself so seriously and for your soul's sake absolutely no dieting. Ever. Period.

Most importantly - Enjoy!!!!!

(That being said, also please be aware and educated on the current dangerous and dismal state of food affairs.)

mmmmm bop !!

Some bébés just LOVE to put everything in their mouths, watch INTENTLY as others eat, and REEEEACH for any visible morsel of food; our second born is one of those babies - so much so we have given her a few samples before her official six months. But be aware, babies have an open gut until about six-months and allergies are a possibility.

OUR* first foods :

~ egg yolk, runny from a 4-minute egg with a pinch of sea salt

~ stewed peaches, because they were in season

~ lemon

~ butter, grass-fed, sucked off corn-on-the-cob

~ mango, dried mango is an amazing chew toy !!!

Next on the menu :

~ avocado

~ plum apple butter
~ pickles, lacto-fermented , in a strainer pouch

Then perhaps :

~ banana

~ squash, peas, sweet potato or other veggie ... one at a time

~ coconut oil, added into one of the above

~ pureed meat

~ soup stock or bone broth, to thin any of the above

~ cod liver oil and/or desiccated liver, although I myself take the cod liver oil and nurse, so perhaps this is redundant. 

All ORGANIC, grass-fed, free range, and local if possible. 

We hold off on all grains for as long as we can. 

*This is just what we happened to do this time of year with this baby taking into account what we read, what our parents did, and advice from our pediatrician and midwife. From there we use our INSTINCTS and INSPIRATION.

buzz buzz

Raw Local Honey

Use as FACEWASH. Prepare to be stunned.

Cleansing. Antibacterial. Balancing.

Glow like the golden blossom nectar itself.

Get a squeeze bottle: spa friendly packaging!

my twinkly mood

The Daily Doodle: Tis the season of intimate dinners with friends.

Wessex top, Missoni bowl, Ugg boots.

Cream and Cotton

The Daily Doodle: Coconut custard anyone? My love for creamy desserts has meant lemon cheesecake, espresso soufflé, chocolate mousse, caramel torte and coconut rice pudding have all been on the menu this week thanks to my wonderful mother.

Haute Hippie dress, Prada ballerinas.

dessert français

The Daily Sweet: Fruit tarts, chocolate truffles, crepes with marmalade, herbal tea, gummis, fruits, and gelato. After every meal, mmmmm.

Crepes Fine de Ritz Paris

Petit dejeuner Francais

The Daily Doodle: The summer "each morning at eight AM" my daily plate included, but was by no means limited to, yogurt, pain au chocolate, boiled eggs, and peaches. And of course, Nutella (not pictured).

Clafoutis Aux Mirabelles

 Plum Flan

small yellow plums or pitted, sour cherries or other fruit on hand/in season

12 eggs plus 3 egg yolks

600 grams heavy cream

700 grams creme UHT

300 grams sugar

100 grams pastry flour

vanilla extract or fresh vanilla or both

1. Infuse the vanilla bean scrapings of one large bean into 1/4 of the creme, heated.

2. 

Providence I Do

The Daily Doodle: Celebrating alfresco: A foodie wedding frenzy in the country-side of Rhode Island. 

little seed in my mind's eye

The Daily Doodle: Hello Spring! This doodle was inspired by Synergy Kombucha's new flavor and my all-time favorite beverage name: Third Eye Chai. But I am not here to talk chai, instead I've got CHIA on the brain, I before A. This little seed has been in my mind's eye as J likes to add it to fresh juiced apples, my pregnant friend loves herself a mamachia, and I enjoy its tapioca-like properties in sweetened almond milk.  The newest experiment, Chocolate Chia Mousse Cake, was a success, so I simply must share.

Chocolate Chia Mousse Cake
adapted from The Chia Company

1/2 rounded cup Chia Seeds
1 cup water
1 1/4 cup chocolate chips
-dark or milk
1/2 cup butter
-and a dash of salt if the butter has none

1/3 cup sugar

2/3 cup sweetener 

-sugar, agave, maple syrup...

5 eggs, separated
2 cups almond meal

1. Pre-heat oven to 350F.
2. Soak chia seeds in water for 15min.
3. Melt butter and chocolate.
-Set aside to cool.
4. Beat egg-whites and 1/3 cup sugar until soft peaks form.
- Use your arm power if you're a bad-ass!
5. Beat sweetener of choice into egg yolks.
- In a big bowl.
- Until pale and creamy.
6. Fold in chocolate and yolk mixtures.
7. Fold in almond meal.
- Or try ground hazelnuts!
8. Fold in egg whites.
- Gently, now.
9. Pour into a greased/lined pan.
- I used a bread loaf pan.
- A spring form would be classic.
- A bundt would work...
10. Bake about 50 minutes.
- Use a toothpick to check sooner.

Enjoy! Try not to eat too much; from personal experience the chia seeds expand in your stomach like flax-meal, bulk-fiber style. Woah.