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Tag: lavender
Revisiting Lavender
Arborio in milk, vanilla and French lavender
Cornbread with Lavender, and Pear floor
If you can not stand the heat outside, stay in the kitchen
And so, I did some extensive baking, considering the extra heat that with go with it. First, it was the melting of butter for a cornbread. Butter and lavender
Lavender Rice
Another variation on the Milkrice
Today’s Mortar
Cardamom, star anise, lavender, cloves
Lavender
Good Morning!
Cornbread with lavender (still cooling off)
Prolonging Transcendental States
“Transcendent states are often desperately short-lived: a few moments late at night or at dusk; on a plane or train journey across wide open country. But we can, through certain ingredients (especially lavender, cardamom, turmeric, and cinnamon), access them a little more systematically and thereby loosen the grip of our insistent egos.”In “Thinking & Eating”,… Continue reading Prolonging Transcendental States
Portobello on Risotto
After using Arborio for my risotto the last three decades, I finally used the vialone nano rice variety. Yet another love ingrained moment! Portobello with lavender, on risotto.
Lavender Coffee
Lavender and Cardamom
Lavender and cardamom on milk, for milk rice
Multi-Dimensions of a Celebratory Day
Multitalented and multitasking frequently had a somewhat disturbing effect on my approach to life. I see it as inherently human to have a variety of abilities, talents, knowledge sources, and as equally natural to operate on a variety of levels and areas simultaneously. Hence, I find it a tad redundant pointing to these as exceptional… Continue reading Multi-Dimensions of a Celebratory Day
Lavender and Olive Oil
Love in the Times of Corona
(and I do hope that Gabriel García Márquez will excuse the misquotation) Wash your hands / keep social distance / wear a mask / don’t make me wear a mask / protest rulings / inject bleach / take hydroxychloroquine / wait for vaccines / don’t ever make me take a vaccine ... It saddens me… Continue reading Love in the Times of Corona
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