Virginia Woolf famously said, “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well” – so I felt it was very important to make some delicious granola bars for the students that came to my yoga/Ayurveda workshop this wintry weekend. We started with a gentle yoga class, took a break for snacks and tea, …
Tag Archives: Winter cooking
holiday food!
Last week, we decided to skip town for a few days to hide in a cabin and find some peace and quiet. It has been a long prairie winter thusfar with no definite end in sight, but while we are buried under our layers in an effort to stay warm, we might as well enjoy …
winter survival.
Things to help get through long winter days: hot chocolate, a couple of good books (one of which has to be about food), knitting, and a goofy-looking owl.
Dinosaurs eat broccoli. Rawrm.
There was a scene in an animated movie about dinosaurs that I watched when I was a kid where some dinosaurs saw a tree in the distance that was full of leaves, and they thought, “Yay! Food!” because Earth was changing and there wasn’t enough food to eat, but then before they could get to …
green on green.
Our home might be mistaken for a jungle, as there are plants everywhere: a ficus tree in the living room that looks longingly out onto the street, a fern in the office fluffing her leaves like a true diva, a palm plant threatening to poke you in the eye, and lots more…not to mention the …
finding solace in steam.
The lone wolf days of winter are officially here. Cue desolate wailing. Actually, I don’t mind the cold temperatures. It inspires a change in rhythm, a natural contraction after the languid, loose feeling of summer: the city gets quieter, the snow muffles all sounds (never mind the two scarves and toque and parka hood covering …