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I’ve been wanting to share this guided meditation with you for some time, and I decided to offer it this week as a ‘bonus’ post! It’s called the ‘cocoon’ and I explain a bit about it in the 18-minute video, which comprises about 8 minutes of explanation and ten minutes of meditation. I like this partiuclar practice because it is: Easy: we don’t have to imagine anything more complicated than a great big mass of coloured light;

You probably have seen many kinds of visible weights, they can be measured. But there is one invisible weight, it cannot be measured, and it is the heaviest. Another strange thing is that it is also deeply hidden in the deepest layer of people’s hearts. Guilt is a profound weight that often becomes a heavy burden, weighing many of us down. It's an invisible weight that is felt only by the person carrying it, unless they decide to express their feelings and share their burden with others.

I AM FINDING the life of recipe developing to be an eventful one. Yesterday, I presented Miriam with asparagus ice cream for breakfast (it got eaten!) and over this week between us, we have eaten 18 artichokes to get this recipe nailed. Good job, they’re healthy: My liver has never been in better shape. You’ll find these artichoke flowers (flor de alcachofa) all over Spain. With toppings of pine nuts or truffle or a cured egg yolk they cost anywhere upwards of £10.

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Today, I feel born again in the taco, because I’ve finally hit restaurant 50 in NY Times food critic Pete Well’s top 100 restaurants in New York City. How did I do it without dying? I want to give a shout out to my main drug, Metformin, which helps me process sugar differently or something like that. Restaurant #49 was Taqueria Ramirez in the neighborhood the local bearded gentry calls “Greene-pointe.

The many great neighborhoods of Hamden will have the usual Halloween trick-or-treating events at the end of the month, of course. Below are additional opportunities for fun with the Halloween theme here in Hamden this month. Community events and activities for all ages - kids, families, and adults. *Note: this special edition newsletter will be updated as more events and activities are announced. Share This Week in Hamden* Paradise Nursery. Pumpkin stand and other fall/halloween decorations.

One of the challenges of becoming an accidental seaside landlady is folding visitors’ dietary requirements into our everyday life. Vegetarian, vegan, gluten-intolerant, allergic to shellfish (the most difficult one this, given where we live), we’ve tackled them all. Vegetarians are the simplest to… ncG1vNJzZmiclZe8s63RqJmeqqSovK960q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnmJa6brXSZqWorF2Werexxp6rmpqcmg%3D%3D

I have a distinct childhood memory of watching my mother rolling out sheets of yellow cookie dough, cutting circles with a drinking glass and putting teaspoons of prune-walnut filling in the centers. She would then magically turn the circles into plump little triangles, pinching the corners together, leaving a small opening in the middle for the filling to peek through. These were hamantaschen, the signature cookies of the Jewish holiday of Purim.

I’d been waiting 25 years to talk to Bette Midler, so I dove at the chance to interview the Divine Miss M on the release of her 1998 album Bathhouse Betty. I told the publicist I loved the new record, then, having the phone time for her call reserved, went home, dug up the new disc from the “not enough hours in the day” pile and listened to it for the first time.