Smoked Trout Spread with Mascarpone, Shallots, and Dill
Smoked fish is a longtime favorite of ours, both in sandwiches and served on crackers as a delicious appetizer for parties and guests. Trout is a wonderful fish with flaky white meat and a lot of flavor.
Free Food Philo: A Coming Home
When the pandemic hit San Francisco in March 2020, we closed our restaurant doors. In the uncertainty of the world, we felt lost and we wondered how we would find our way back to the surface.
SoulStretch Movement Class at CCWF
The first two groups set their mats down when they arrived in the room and my third group, a combination of women 65+, some in wheelchairs and some with their yoga mats, formed a semi-circle for class.
The Land is Our Inheritance
Bare feet. Fruit falling and some still hanging. This apple tree feels like I’m in Eden. The tree of life without the serpent. I think about how it was innate for my ancestors to come to the trees, to know the time for planting them, for eating from them.
Forgiveness Releases the Burden On Your Own Heart
Hello again Laura,
I cannot believe another week has passed already. I am saddened that there are only two weeks left to the group. But I wholeheartedly intend to keep up the practices and tools I’ve re-incorporated into my daily life since beginning this course.
Have You Tried Meditation?
One day Suzuki Roshi said, “Life is basically impossible.” Then he got up and left the zendo. The next day a student asked, “Suzuki Roshi, yesterday you said that life is basically impossible. What are we going to do?”
“You do it,” he replied, “every day.”
Parmesan Cream Shrimp in Roasted Kabocha Boats
There is a precious little country in South America with 3 ½ million people and 30 million free range cows getting fat on the rich pampas grass that grows wild there. This young country, established in 1825, is called Uruguay, “river of the painted birds.”
Land Soil & Water Summit
On October 15th, at the tail-end of a long dry season, we convened a dream team of experts in water and soil ecology to develop a restoration plan for the Land’s hydrological cycle and soil health.
You See I Want A Lot*
You see, I want a lot.
Perhaps I want everything:
the darkness of each infinite fall,
the shivering blaze of each step up.
Restoration: Young Men and Their Plot of Land
Like for any garden startup, we were concerned the land at the juvenile detention center would be barren. The very first order of business was to rent a rototiller to break up the soil.
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