In the pre-dawn half-light, I prepare my breakfast. I wash my hands with scented vegetable oil soap and warm water. I pull my ingredients out of the fridge, one by one. A base of green leaves – romaine or leaf lettuce, sometimes accented with kale or cabbage. A colourful harmony of vegetables – different every [...]
Category Archives: kitchens
beauty in the discarded parts
I’ve been photographing food scraps (and other items) in my kitchen sink since the beginning of the year. I love the beautiful colours and patterns that the discarded food makes. Occasionally as a cook, I also appreciate the culinary value of the parts of vegetables that we normally throw out. Lately I’ve been purposefully incorporating [...]
Also posted in contemplation, cooking, food, mindfulness, plants, wellness
Tagged cooking, edible, recipes, scraps, vegetables
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temporary home
On the weekend, when I was struggling with panic over my broken-down car, one of the greatest fears that kept rising up was losing my home. I rent a lovely apartment in a quiet, century neighbourhood. I love living alone. I love this place where I find myself. I love the beautiful and useful objects [...]
Also posted in finances, home, interior design, mindfulness, minimalism, spirituality
Tagged apartment, fear, home, impermanence, non-grasping, panic, pantry, personal development, personal growth, temporary
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how to make perfect hard-boiled eggs
I’m writing this Wednesday night, and I’m exhausted – probably because I’ve been bingeing on sugary things (chocolate and tropical fruit) for the last couple of days. Which is a roundabout way of saying that, even though I’d planned on writing a post about how to make a perfect hard-boiled eggs, and making a beautiful [...]
hunger
Yesterday afternoon I was starving. (And of course I don’t mean I was really starving. I was just hungry in the urgent, demanding way that a child is hungry. I WANTED FOOD NOW.) And all afternoon, the only thing I could think about was getting home and eating something – supper. Big supper. As instantly [...]
pantry
This is a photo of the top shelf of my pantry. I keep cooking oils, vinegars, shampoo, vitamins, filtered water and toothpaste here, among other things. I love pantries. I love the idea of storage. I also love the whimsical idea of hidden surprises. I don’t keep my pantry too spare, too edited – I [...]
blessing
I have a friend whose home is warm and welcoming. It just plain feels good to be there. I tell her all the time how much I love her space, and she talks about continually “working on” the energy of her home. This intrigues me, because I wonder what someone could do to make their [...]
soul
Some people talk about their homes having “soul.” That makes me curious. Is “soul” something that is either there or not there? Is it transient? Does it come and go? Or is soul the eternal constant, the underlying structure – the heartbeat? This is just my personal belief: I think that soul is the quality [...]
hearth
When I was growing up we sang our national anthem, O Canada, in school every morning. Once I started studying French (a compulsory subject in my officially bilingual country), we learned and sang O Canada in French*. I must have been daydreaming when they gave us the French translation, though, because for the longest time [...]
Also posted in cooking, home
Tagged Frigidaire, hearth, Hestia, kitchen, sacred feminine, stove, Vesta, vintage
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dream home
I have an idealized dream of what living in rural Europe is like. The buildings are old (which – to me – means lived-in, comforting, and soulful), the days are simpler (filled with domestic tasks like cooking slow food, and spending time with family), and the pace is easy. My dream home is a place [...]
Also posted in cooking, doors, home, interior design
Tagged bowls, counter, dream home, imagination, intention, interior design, kitchen, sink, tomatoes, washing
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