Kitchen corner

Let's talk food. If you got dug into the 10-Day Body Bodacious Challenge I ran in January, you'll have gleaned the perspective that my extensive trainings in energy psychology lead me to, around demonising food. Identifying foods and our behaviour as good and bad is a tad futile, this is because issues with food are a symptom not a cause of an underlying issue. In other words, poor eating habits, even allergies, are a far-from-ideal coping strategy Plotting my way back to good … [Read more...] about Making Different Eating Choices

When you cook you either go through the motions of preparing food or you love the process, as well as the end result. And it doesn't matter how much you spend on sourcing the finest quality ingredients, if this one element is missing eating your food just won't be a great experience for you or those you serve it to. Of course the essential component is: LOVE! Leave that out at your peril. The ripples that emanate from it are intangible but deeply felt, prior to sitting down, during … [Read more...] about One Essential Ingredient

A neighbour has agreed to help with my garden, a hundred foot long by 34 foot wide wilderness, full of planting, a pond, lots of tall overhanging trees; a magnolia, a copper beech, a lime, an elm, and a clump of 4 connected sycamores, with a mass of shrubs and bamboo thrown into the mix. Yesterday I was shocked when I saw an area he'd cleared, where all the established plants had disappeared kaput. Then I remembered what it was like; full of bindweed, brambles and whatnot, a large but … [Read more...] about Sweet Garlic