To Eat the Sun: Pêches Aux Nuages
Peches Aux Nuages: Peaches on a Cloud After our Zen Mountain Retreat earlier this month, Jen Carpenter, a recent graduate of the Deep Yoga Mastery of Life Yoga Teacher Training, continued with her own...
View ArticleBanana Coconut “Half Domes”
These are the dog days. Here in Yosemite it is 100 degrees: Hot, Dry, and Dusty. Visiting Half Dome Our rustic, little cabin provides shade but little relief beyond that. It is designed for winter: to...
View ArticleRoses + Chocolate for Ma
Mother Lola Ridge Your love was like moonlight turning harsh things to beauty, so that little wry souls reflecting each other obliquely as in cracked mirrors . . . beheld in your luminous spirit their...
View ArticleChocolate Raspberry Tart
Beloved friends, I hope you are resting and enjoying this final day of 2014. The Chinese year of the horse has been quite a gallop, hasn’t it? Yet when we look back, there is so much to be thankful...
View ArticleCoconut Nectar + Rose, Saffron, Nutmeg, Lime
Ojas. Soma. Bhakti. How do we translate these words, or convey the experience, the deep knowing, that get up and dance urge, the sense of soaring wings lifting you to the sun, the feeling of sailing...
View ArticleMelissa Ambrosini’s Exquisite Chocolate Orange Tart
Nowadays we make friends in such new and interesting ways – over the ethers of email, blogs, social media. I call them “my blog friends” and at least for me, it’s not until I actually get to be with...
View ArticleGF Crepes with Cinnamon Orange Honey
Traveling through India inspires me to share with you something we’ve been enjoying. Dosas, rotis, chapatis and rice flour “pancakes” have been favorites with our group this year, and are easy to make...
View ArticleHimalayan Halva
As we continue to travel, “six tasting India” both north and south, there are certain dishes that elicit such oohs and ahhs they have to be shared. Fortunately, wherever we go the restaurant staff is...
View Article3 Ingredient, No Bake Coco Nut Butter Cups
This recipe is just like the one in the last post, but without the cacao/chocolate. Why, you might ask, would anyone want to skip the chocolate? Well, these have a deep, rich, pristine taste that...
View ArticlePeach Pecan Oatmeal Cobbler
What to do when there’s an abundance of summer fruit? Too much to get through one at a time? And your neighbors already have their full too? Why a Fruit Cobbler, of course! This is a play on Cobbler,...
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