Last month, I went to a mindful meal held by Mindful in May. We sat at a long table with other 40 or so people who attended ~ and did not talk for the first 10 minutes of eating our meals. Our job was simply to chew, pay attention to the food and savour it…
Have you ever cooked with mirin? I was introduced to the stuff a few years back thanks to a very apt birthday gift ~ Jude Blereau’s original cookbook, Wholefoods ~ which not only introduced me to world of whole foods, but also mirin. Mirin is a fermented rice seasoning. Being somewhere between a rice wine…
“Cooking should be a carefully balanced reflection of all the good things of the earth.” ~ Jean & Pierre Troisgros Sometime cooking can feel like thankless duty ~ and something that you need to fit in among the other million things you need to do in the day. Cooking on most days for yourself {and…
As you may well already know, I do love delicious nourishing food, though. I prefer to get in me in the simplest ways possible, though ~ by relying on clever cooking and wholesome ingredients to get me through the week ~ without reneging on flavour and nourishment. Don’t get me wrong. I do enjoy cooking…
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” ― Rumi click to tweet I’ve been thinking a lot about joy ~ making time for it, feeling it and being it. So I ask: Do you do things from a space of joy? Or do you strive for an outcome that you…
The reason I’m writing about this topic is because I do have to say no to people sometimes to say yes to my health {and just quietly, most times I don’t feel uncomfortable doing so}. But I’m also writing about this topic because recently I’ve worked with some clients for whom saying no to food…
Today I have a video interview with the one and only Jules Clancy of Stonesoup! I’m so excited to have Jules here on The Mindful Foodie. In this 12 minute interview learn why Jules started her blog {just in case you want to start your own!} and how she cooks her meals these days ~…
Hmmm… Sea vegetables, aka seaweed… Does it tickle your fancy? Perhaps not ~ especially if it conjures up an image of pongy sliminess! But that’s not the seaweed I’m suggesting you eat ~ well, not straight out of the ocean and right into your mouth (ew!). There are some clever ways you can include sea…
Do you love your body ~ from the bottom of your heart, just the way she is? For many of use looking at ourselves naked in the mirror is confronting ~ we may feel shame, disappointment or sadness. We may not even smile at ourselves ~ because we’re busy critiquing our different parts, relentlessly. {Don’t feel…
Besides being super delicious, I wanted to talk about practical element of having homemade condiments in the fridge. Many condiments are easy to make ~ but out of habit and reliance on store-bought ones, we have forgotten that we can make our own in a few minutes with wholesome, delicious ingredients. Besides most standard store-bought condiments…
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