Best quick meal ever
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Grabbed some sprouting broccoli and a package of salmon kebabs with greens at TJs on the way home from work-
Came home, dropped my bags, threw the Broccoli in a steamer and the salmon and greens on my grill (best pan purchase ever - get one now), with olive oil, smoked sea salt and red wine vinegar. I seared the salmon so it was rare inside and the greens got slightly crispy with the high heat - wow.
Breakfast was also a religious experience but I won't bore you except to say that I am SERIOUSLY thinking of writing a cookbook. Working title: Karmacuisine - the yogic practice of cooking
Or something like that.
Also finished chapter 1 today of my herbal medicine course and found a great quote from Hippocrates:
Let your medicine be your food and your food, medicine.
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7 of Pentacles
Sunday, March 30, 2008
The Seven of Pentacles is a time-out card. It represents those moments after a rush of activity when we stop to catch our breath and look around. The man in the picture has paused to contemplate the fruits of his own labors, but he could also pick that fruit. In readings, the Seven of Pentacles can indicate a reward that will come your way, particularly as a result of your own efforts. Take it and enjoy.
This card is also a call for assessment. When we're busy, we don't always have time to reflect on what we're doing and why. Are we still on course? Are we getting the results we want? Serious problems can develop if you don't take stock at key moments. In readings, this card suggests that you take the time to be sure you're meeting your goals.
I am a member of Gilligan's crew, a play within a play
tossed ashore by an o'er busy sea of hopes, dreams, Expectations
Kidnapped by the Native Men, defiled/deified, bewildered, heartsore.
Where is Spirit? AncesTor? Show me the gate and I will walk through.
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Cook, Bless, Eat#2
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Tonight I made fried polenta with sauteed mushrooms, fennel, and crispy buttery sage. It turned out rather nice, although I am still learning how to crisp my sage just right - I managed one good leaf out of 5.
Work is physically demanding now, and strangely, mentally demanding too - we are setting a new store, and putting products into just the right places and checking numbers is a bit of torture - but the team are great and I love the neighborhood we are in, there is a fabulous food market just 5 mins walk away. Funny - I used to think about clothes and shoes, now I think about fancy condiments and organic vegetables. Anything that says 'raw' on the label - I have to buy it and taste it (I had raw sauerkraut last night, full of prebiotics, amazing).
Trying to muster the courage now to go to anna's jazz island - its open mike night - and I didn't organize far enough in advance to bring a friend along, so should I go on my own and belt out a jazz tune or two?
Posted byKarma at Tuesday, March 18, 2008 2 comments
winelibrary
Saturday, March 15, 2008
My pal Brandon sent me this link. This guy is awesome!
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Cook, Bless, Eat
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Organic Lacintano (Curly Leaf) Kale with Saffron Turmeric Rice
Ingredients (Organic)
Ghee (Clarified Butter)
1/2 tsp Fresh Turmeric
Saffron
Approx 2/3c White Basmati Rice
1 head of Curly Leaf Kale, destalked and cut in chiffron
1 Medium Onion
2-3 Cloves Garlic
Smoked Sea Salt
1st Prepare Rice
Melt approx 1TBS ghee in a large soup pot, add turmeric and rice and stir until rice is translucent. Then add a few strands of saffron and water, cover and simmer until rice is cooked.
While rice is cooking:
Melt 2-3 tsp ghee in a saucepan, add onion and cook until translucent and slightly browned. Add garlic, brown for around 1/2 minute, add kale and cook until soft. Just before finished, add a generous pinch of smoked sea salt and stir. If needed, can add a teaspoon of ghee to moisten just before serving.
serves 2 as a side dish or 1 hungry person as a lovely late-night meal.
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The Tower
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Listen to the cards Karma. Oh I WISH I'd gone to the Ardantane workshop on Valentine's day! I feel I am forcing relationships and old patterns that I should be past now, and my body is fed up and it is shutting me down. On Monday after a particularly stressful evening with a person I have been dating on and off, I tripped going down the steps and hurt my ankle. So no dancing now - that sweet escape has begun to foster clouds of illusion anyway, this seems yet another message. Last night I got food poisioning - and today I really feel the need to go to my women's group (which I have missed for two weeks just because of 'funner' plans), to be there and feel supported but I feel so unwell I can't seem to get out of bed - just making a cup of tea is tiring.
Last Saturday at Pan workshop I drew the Death Card - it frightened me but I also had a feeling that things are needing to die in me so that I can move forward. I didn't account for this being quite so painful, but I did commit to facing it, whatever the consequences. Courage Please!
Posted byKarma at Sunday, February 24, 2008 1 comments
slideshow
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Pictures are such wonderful things. I’ve been sitting with a cup of chamomile tea in front of my laptop playing me flashes of memories over the past 10 years – family, friends, rehearsals, shows, London, Amsterdam, Berkeley, Paris, Toulouse, Barcelona, Dublin… I have such a full and blessed life, every day new challenges, joys and adventures!
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san francisco is a fierce place to live
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Did I ever tell you that if I could choose the way I would die it would be to be mauled by a big cat? Poor Tatiana..
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Happy Christmas
Monday, December 24, 2007
Its amazing to think that one year ago I was in Devon, brokenhearted and grieving. Now I realize that the experience was one of the best things that happened to me, because it propelled me forward, as if the universe were shouting 'come on, there's so much more you can do with your life! You will have so many wonderful friends and family to help you on your journey!'
I am home with my parents for a couple of days for Christmas and I really appreciate being here, talking with my mother about my blood family, listening to my (adopted) dad,I really do admire his ability to remember everything, and his intelligence and curiosity about life and learning. When I talk to some of my close friends who's parents are no longer living or facing death, I really feel lucky to have my family. My brother and I are really getting to be great friends now that we are older - how great is that?
You all can have my wrapped packages under the iron christmas tree. I have been given so many gifts this year, I am full up.
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Merry Christmas
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
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a call for help
Saturday, December 8, 2007
I want to find my father, Stephen Kloetzer (b. 1950 or 1951 in Ventura). I don't know where or how. Everytime I have asked my mother over the years she has brought up the fact that he is 'a schizophrenic'. Or attacked herself for having no information, she thinks he has another child, and he has a sister. I am afraid always to ask her over the years, not wanting to upset her. I mention it to my adopted father. He offers to help, which I am touched by, but how do I ask him directly? I really have come to love my adopted father and understand him and forgive him for our struggles over the years. But pieces of my life puzzle are missing. My hairdresser told me I should 'go to the town in France where your grandmother was born and see how it feels. And it really stuck when he said this. My grandfather is/was German, maybe this is why I picked up the language so quickly. I always felt drawn towards Germany and France. Other friends tell me that this is something I have to do before I can sort the rest of my life out - like my lovelife for one. One psychic friend (it seems so many friends are) says maybe I don't need to meet him yet he is the one who speaks of the missing pieces to my puzzle, I know these pieces are missing, holding me back, from getting to the next stage of my life. I think, I can do this on my own - I have encouragement from friends. I try the internet. I find an address, go there, no one. I think at one point I may have found my grandfather's name (Walter?) I write a letter. Just before I post it I check the net again - whoever that person was, they died in 1982 (born in 1913). I am crushed. Are my natural paternal grandparents dead? Will I ever know where they came from? Can I somehow see my father? I want to know if I resemble him, what he is like. I feel so hopeless, I am so tired of being on my own, always being strong, positive. I am asking the universe to help me. I just cant do it on my own anymore.
Posted byKarma at Saturday, December 08, 2007 1 comments
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daddy
what good are my eyes if I cannot see him?
what good are my ears if I do not listen deeply enough?
what good is this heart if it sighs only for romance and does not know true love?
what good is this spirit, stubborn, broken, trying and failing, falling, fallen.
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secret-ed beliefs
Friday, November 23, 2007
In the next year I will
~ be working in an environment where I believe that I have no stress and tons of fun
~ feel I make a difference and am fantastically well paid
~ be juggling my timetable to fit in seeing all of my friends and loved ones
~ be singing in an environment that gives me great joy and connects me spiritually
~ feel a grounded and spiritually nurturing connection with a group
~ let go and feel healed and forgiving
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household shopping
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Bought today for new apartment:
13" skillet
Spatula
Set of 4 champagne flutes
Single red wine glass (they only had one of the one I liked)
Wooden spoon (bamboo wood)
Sustainable bamboo wood cutting board (acutally bought it yesterday but wanted to mention that I am trying to buy ethically produced goods)
Cafe Paris teacup and two saucers to complete newly bought set of dishes
Mushroom brush and mushroom slicer
Posted byKarma at Tuesday, November 20, 2007 1 comments
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Thanks Guys!
Saturday, November 17, 2007
for completely hooking me up! I am now living in the most amazing little cottage, in the heart of Gourmet Ghetto, Berkeley. Foodie's paradise - my fridge is full of organic veg and fruit from the Thursday farmers market (the whole market is organic), Andronicos and Elephant Pharm and the corner market for staples (there is also a Safeway but I would rather spend more and eat better) there are at least 3 serious coffeehouses within 5 minutes walk (only one is a chain - Peets - but a good chain), a juice collective, a cheeseboard collective, an authentic jewish deli, oh, and a european wine store 3 doors down - I have to stop now - I won't even start on the restaurants yet...
The only drawback so far is the tummyache in the middle of the night lately from overeating - I just get too excited and want to try everything right away!
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when waiting is the hardest choice
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Thanks to Yannick for this inspiring quote, from Meditations for Women, http://www.meditationsforwomen.com/dailys/464879.html
Are you facing a difficult time in your life?
Give yourself the gift of patience.
Patience is the main ingredient necessary to get through difficult times.
Yes, its hard to be patient! But without patience, you would have no hope.
And if the universe was organized so that your desires materialized instantly,
that wouldn't serve you either.
Patience helps you grow.
It nourishes both compassion and empathy.
So embrace patience - ultimately it makes you stronger.
Posted byKarma at Wednesday, November 07, 2007 1 comments
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Happy Halloween
Friday, November 2, 2007
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wildfires
Sunday, October 21, 2007
This is my parent's front and back yard at 3pm today. There are crazy wildfires all over southern California - Malibu, Santa Rosa, Piru, Fillmore - the closest is around 20 miles away, unfortunately a few homes are threatened and a big castle burned in Malibu, but local web news says only brush has burned closer to us. Mom is all stressed out, and trying to find local news (it mostly talks of Malibu). I am just capturing the changing colours with my camera. I usually love the smell of bonfires, but there is so much ash falling and strong winds, it burns the eyes. Posted byKarma at Sunday, October 21, 2007 1 comments
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http://www.elephantpharm.com/. Check 'em out. I start working in the Berkeley store on 30th October. Berkeley is the 'Covent Garden' of the company (NYR peeps know what I'm sayin' - for non NYR peeps, Berkeley is the 'mothership' of the company) except they are 20 times bigger. Seriously folks, America is a BIG country. It will take me a lifetime to try every healthy/alternative/organic product. Heaven.
I'd like to live walking distance from work - this area of Berkeley is actually called Gourmet Ghetto. And I will happily donate a fair portion of my income to this foodie's paradise. There is an organic farmer's market every Thursday, in addition to every amazing restaurant and specialty food shop you could imagine. Today I had caramalized onion, pear, and blue cheese pizza at cheeseboard, while listening to a fantastic live jazz trio (free live jazz every day).
Have I sold it to all of you already? Play the visa lottery and come live here, we could build a big commune!
Seriously, I don't care that rent has quadrupled since I lived here. I believe. And I lived just 6 blocks from this area years ago, so the squirrels remember me and they will fix me up.
Posted byKarma at Thursday, October 18, 2007 1 comments
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back home?
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Tonight I watched the first 3 episodes of season 1 (new series) of Dr Who with my family. I knew my dad would love it. My awesome friend Kenneth turned me on to Dr Who (I am in California now Kenneth, so I get to use words like awesome).
I feel a bit like the character Rose in the first few episodes, sort of :
Where the hell am I?
But, hey, this is exciting, I love adventure!
Who knows what is around the corner? should I be worried?
No! I am not afraid! I am brave! Carpe diem!
But I am homesick! wait... I am home?!? wait... where am I?'
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