Hi Jimi,
Have you ever met someone truly magical? A person who seems to dance on a different plane of existence, harnessing invisible forces that most of the world is unaware of?
Well, my friend Tara is such a being. She speaks to the forest and the forest answers…
I think of her a spirit sibling. (I was the best man at Tara's wedding and we still laugh about how I spooked her family when I called out some of her wild woman ways!)
One of Tara’s favorite things to do is cook. But not the “greatest hits” dishes that you often see on restaurant menus. She’s a culinary alchemist, weaving together the most incredible flavor tapestries out of consciously grown and gathered foods.
She has a sixth sense ability with the ingredients she touches, and her recipes somehow reawaken a wildness inside of your heart and palette.
When Tara invites us over to her house for dinner, we know we’re in for an experience. Pure deliciousness with a pinch of healing on top.
I guess this is what happens when a medicine woman leaves the forest and becomes an herb-to-table chef…
Each spoonful seems to melt and mend you.
Why am I telling you all this? Because Tara just published an incredible cookbook called
Foraged & Grown: Healing, Magical Recipes For Every Season - and it is a masterpiece.
Here’s just a taste of what Tara has infused into her new cookbook:
- Dandelion Pakoras with Tamarind Sauce
- Nettle Doughnuts with Butterfly Pea Flower Icing & Marigolds
- Hollyhock Wraps with Rose Tahini Sauce
- Adaptogenic Selkie Sipping Broth
- Lemon Balm, Nettle & Green Olive Pasta with Pine Nuts
- Snow Pea Warm Salad with Black Locust Flowers
- Meadowsweet & Fireweed Madeira Cake
- And on and on!
I love seeing the look on folks’ faces when they first encounter Tara’s cooking. Her food is dazzling to look at and the taste of each morsel on your tongue is a never-ending story unto itself.
Click here to enchant your kitchen with Tara’s new cookbook
Tara's recipes are a love-letter to the earth goddess, to the moon mother, to the goodness and magic that lives inside us all. I’m honored to call her my close friend and our family is blessed to be able to warm our hearts, minds and bellies by her fire.
She lives each day by this simple code, spoken by her hero Barbara Cooney:
“You must do something to make the world more beautiful.”
If you could only have one cookbook, I’d strongly recommend this be it.
https://thesacredscience.com/foraged-and-grown
Stay curious,