prepping

prepping with bacon grease, garlic, knives and sunshine

prepping with butter

with rub of herbs de provence

let's talk about basting ...

sharing my super secret strategy for perfect roast chicken

Blessed by the prisms that make rainbows on certain afternoons

dark chocolate scones

butternut bisque boule

cathead biscuits

pumpkin, sweet potato, sprouted buckwheat muffins sprinkled with raw hemp seeds

cucumbers with onions - 'bout to be pickled

Jug of green love: cucumber, kale, bell pepper, celery & green apple

prepping yukon gold potato & broccoli stem casserole

Mushrooms, aged sheep's milk cheese and fresh thyme

On its way into the oven

homemade bread, mayo, mustard, muenster cheese, raw mushrooms, tomatoes, broccoli sprouts, avocado slices.

Serious teeth.

I was a Phoenix and this is my home spun face-paint.

Introduction to food energetics (and brave love tattoos from Danielle LaPorte!)

beginnings of chicken soup: onions, garlic, ginger, carrots and celery with pieces of chicken.  i sautee everything in butter and olive oil before adding in homemade broth.

beginnings of beef bone broth.  i used beef short ribs (love them!), along with onions (on the bottom), garlic, celery, carrots and fresh herbs.

roasted garlic bulbs and homemade crostini

roasted garlic cloves on homemade crostini

roasted guinea hen with dark chocolate cacao-nib sauce, forbidden rice, and wilted kale.

She looks good in my sunglasses

wishes, dreams & desires

coloring table

I'm going through the plan for the afternoon.  Lord I love me a nice easel with chart paper.  

dreaming soup.  made with yukon gold potatoes, roasted beets and homemade broth, pureed together.  meant to inspire the dreaming of all women assembled in re-affirming the sacred and divine feminine.

dried roses for blessing before we sprinkled them and cast a circle, making sacred space for the important work of the day

after blessing the dried roses, we cast a circle around our workspace with them and consecrated the space as sacred.  it's a really magical way to begin any healing work!

re-claiming the menstrual cycle by creating little goddess menses

introducing, the goddess menses

goddess menses

filling up the table of wishes, dreams and desires

goddess menses

painting the goddess menses

rituals of self-care: creating and blessing a blended body scrub of organic brown sugar and coconut oil.

painting the goddess menses

coconut brown sugar body scrub - finished product

we created a sensual healing balm for self-pleasuring (and chanted and blessed it) and each participant went home with some.

the color palette 

Corriander seed, cinnamon sticks, fennel seed, rose petals, black peppercorns, cardamom, bay leaves, cloves

This is how my step-daughter rolls

Sampling bone broth on a gorgeous October morning in front of Whole Foods, Asheville

All the good stuff

That perfect tree

'Nuff said.  This is what pastured animal bones do in a well made broth.  Chicken feet and split pigs feet help as well if you're into that kinda thing.

with carrots, parsnips and fresh parsley

Love her fashion sensibilities

I'm convinced this makes them more powerful

Fresh stinging nettles are pretty much one of my most favorite things.  Thank you Joan!!

with lemon buttercream

When that orchid bloom is just about done and she has a fancy dress art show to attend ...

The Saber-Toothed Dire Squirrel strikes again ...

When you find this on the kitchen counter, you know you have a good one.

Amazing henna belly art for the new baby

this is what it looks like for me