Passionate

I have a few things I love to do these days. It seems with starting a full-time job and relishing my weeknights and weekends, I have to be even more intentional with my time than ever before. I am still working on it-perfecting it, if you will-but I have found a few things that make me full. They make me happy. These things make my soul well-cared for. 

Cooking. Baking. Eating. New Restaurants. I am a total foodie. In my "foodie-ness", I have always been rather the snob for my cravings. I am a foodie in the sense that I love real, local and fresh food. Food with little to no preservatives, sugars or fillers. I think food, real food, is absolutely beautiful. Sometimes I go into Whole Foods JUST to look at the heirloom tomatoes and smell the herbs. I think food for some reason, makes a connection in my head to the vibrancy of life. It is real and beautiful and alive, I love the metaphor of it. 

I also love what it does to me. When I cook, no matter how jittery and anxious I have been all day, I slow down to enjoy the process. I am working on not rushing when I finally get to eat the meal, I just get so excited, but I love looking at all the things I can incorporate together in order to make something bigger. I am a true believer that authentic conversation and limpid- heartfelt talks happen around food. I love creating it. I love eating it. I love what happens around it. And I love the realness of it. 


Today, I made Strawberry Basil Scones. Adapted from here. I resonate with her post alongside the recipe because it so reminds me of my move to Colorado, where she now lives too. Today, I am practicing the art of loving this city, this place and this breakfast meal, not knowing the change of seasons and change inside myself that will happen here in LA. 

Enjoy. They are mighty good. I used almond milk instead of coconut. I would use coconut, as mine were a smidge dry.