Mi-SO Yummie Mushroom Soup

Okay, we all know how to make soup, put stuff in pot and cook till yummie. Well every once in a while you stumble across a combo worth shouting about, so here it is. I was making  a miso gravy the day before which was awesome, then there was some left over so I added…

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Zingy ZOOM Bliss Balls

I was recently running a retreat in the New Forest and I like to treat my fellow yogis to a few treats, of the non-bending kind every so often. This is the offering that went down with a bang. Makes lots (enough for 18 people to have one each) 2 large carrots 250grams Almonds fine…

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More Retreats

Nova’s Affinity Yoga Retreats started in 2005 and continues to grow and evolve with the scope of bringing us to that place where our instinctive knowing guides us to live from the inside out. The program explores a combination of ancient eastern disciplines including meditation, pranayama and yoga, as well as more contemporary energetic therapies…

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Scary Times call for Scary Yoga

So I have been trying to balance the need to know what is happening in the world with the need to run and put my head under a pillow not least because I have two small people who have no idea what a scary shit pit the world is currently pretending to be. I am…

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Best Vegan Butternut Cake Ever

1 cup Mashed butternut squash 1 cup dark sug 2 cups Self raising Flour 1/2 cup of each orange juice, almond milk 1/3 cup rapeseed oil mixed spice, nutmeg, caraway seeds,  

Farro Away Roasted Fennel Salad

Serves 8 Farro 2 cups boiled till firm. baked kale with soy sauce till crispy grated carrot x2 roasted fennel and peppers x2 of each chunky pieces in oil borlotti beans x 2 cans for the dressing ginger 2cm and 2 garlic cloves diced finely 1/3 cup orange juice 1/3 cup soy sauce 1/3 cup…

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Butternut Coconut Curry or Dal

All i can say is OH MY GOD, this was a great day in the kitchen. And a even better day for butternut squashes, this is the day I made two out of this world things using a thing i would generally thing as one natures mistakes. Serves 8 One peeled roasted butternut squash (till…

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Vegan Almondy Banana bits and Carrot Cake 

So good I could almost cry.  A handful of Pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, mixed dried fruit.  2 Bananas 2 carrots grated  150grams Dark musavado sugar 300 grams flour 150ml Mixed Rosewater cordial water 1Ts Baking power 1ts mixed spice 1ts almond extract