Feed your family. Feed your soul.
I remember when I first started to practice yoga how difficult it was to find my Drishti*. In yoga your Drishti is your focal point when doing balancing exercises. I remember searching for an object I could focus on – a spot on the wall, another yogini’s …read more
Faithful to our year 2012 Zen of Slow Cooking goals of 20 minutes or less preparation time and using whole foods, we have been planning our New Year’s Eve dinner for either a party of guests or a quiet romantic evening for two. Following the …read more
After a long day I walked through my front door yesterday evening to a welcoming and seasonal smell: the mulling of wine. We’re branching out. The new recipe made it’s intoxicating debut in our new little red 2 quart Crock Pot, rather than the 6 …read more
Before the Holidays in England, my brother and I would spend December wishing away the days in the hope that Christmas would come quicker. “Don’t wish your life away!” I would often hear my dad saying, a nugget of advice which has become golden over the …read more
When I was a child my mother enjoyed creating a beautiful table – candles, cloth napkins, napkin holders, music – you get the picture. She also put her sterling silver to frequent use. She didn’t do it because it was “fancy”, but because she felt …read more
Many of the dishes we crave most come from our experiences as children, familiar tastes and flavors which provide comfort in some way and act as a reminder of a distant setting or event.
As a host at Thanksgiving, having a house full of guests and dinner to prepare can be anxiety inducing even for the most proficient of home cooks. You will be grateful to wake up to this big pot of creamy overnight oatmeal, prepared Thanksgiving eve and …read more
Thanksgiving illuminates some of the things we are appreciative of. Aside from the obvious, one of the unexpected surprises which I’m personally thankful for and which has consumed me this year is being propelled into a working partnership and friendship with Meg.
A lot of people ask me where the “zen” in The Zen of Slow Cooking comes from, so I thought I would share a little bit of my story…
We’ve been sharing our contrasting Halloween traditions. For Meg, Halloween was a long anticipated event. There just wasn’t the variety and quantity of candy available today, so it was a real treat to fill up bags with sugary bounty. As a child I didn’t go …read more
Growing our own vegetables comes with a degree of uncertainty since they’re susceptibleto the extremes of the elements: like this year and our hot, dry summer. I crossed my fingers and toes, and waited patiently for our lone tomato plant to blossom.
Some months ago, not long after the inaugural recipe in my slow cooker, I found 3 rapidly deteriorating bananas in the kitchen. I’m sure I’m not alone in this type of discovery. These bananas were extremely ripe, perfect for making banana bread.
