Yesterday I completed a good day's work - that is, a good day of happy puttering combined with a brainstorming session focused on collaborating with a favourite friend and colleague. To prepare myself for the session and to get myself in the 'moodle', I put together a beautiful Peach and Almond Cream Tart - Tarte aux peche frangipane. While my hands were busy with the intricacies of pastry, my mind and heart were flirting and skirting around the edges of possibilities for this new collaboration. Our session was very satisfying - exciting, new ideas for co-leadership and a deep recognition of our inner knowing about where the collaboration can take us. We celebrated our 'good day's work' with a simple dinner of beet & feta salad, cauliflower & potatoe soup (what is it about cauliflower? I simply love it) and olive & walnut breads. Too full for the tart, I sent pieces home for her - along with some fresh banana-rhubarb muffins. The first rhubarb from my funny garden this year.
Friday, May 7, 2010
Frangipane for Friends
Yesterday I completed a good day's work - that is, a good day of happy puttering combined with a brainstorming session focused on collaborating with a favourite friend and colleague. To prepare myself for the session and to get myself in the 'moodle', I put together a beautiful Peach and Almond Cream Tart - Tarte aux peche frangipane. While my hands were busy with the intricacies of pastry, my mind and heart were flirting and skirting around the edges of possibilities for this new collaboration. Our session was very satisfying - exciting, new ideas for co-leadership and a deep recognition of our inner knowing about where the collaboration can take us. We celebrated our 'good day's work' with a simple dinner of beet & feta salad, cauliflower & potatoe soup (what is it about cauliflower? I simply love it) and olive & walnut breads. Too full for the tart, I sent pieces home for her - along with some fresh banana-rhubarb muffins. The first rhubarb from my funny garden this year.
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yeah! I look forward to stopping by often, especially for cooking / baking inspirations. My hub asked if our new oven was making me a better cook? I replied that it was only one reason, perhaps your moodling is another!
ReplyDeleteYay! This makes me think of the Anais Nin quote about how friendship helps us open up the worlds that are already within us...
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your 'moodling'..... love the Brenda Ueland book, If You Want to Write. Right up there on my bookshelf! My rhubarb is so plentiful this year. Any chance you'll post the rhubarb banana muffin recipe? :-) Been through surgery myself this past winter.... take all the time you need to recover!
ReplyDeleteHey Sue: the recipe is posted. And lucky you to have a bounty of rhubarb! Mine is actually kind of puny this year and I love it. Maybe it needs fertilizing... Do you have any advice?
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