Menu for Anjali's Mother Daughter Yoga Retreat

This outstanding retreat, with Anjali and Kathy from the Yoga Mountain Center, was a joy to cook for with all our stored food from last year (carrots, beets, squash, garlic, beans, corn, etc.) and all that's new in our gardens, fields and woods (greens of all kinds, herbs, flowers, fresh mushrooms, even spruce shoots!). It was inspiring to cook for those amazing woman - mothers and daughters - and it made me even more conscious and grateful for the joy of cooking and working with my own three daughters. I even had the blessing of my mother joining us for the first meal of the retreat!

Friday Dinner 

Carrot and lovage freshly pressed juice

Stinging Nettle Soup

Fresh bread from a local bakery
Basil pesto, fresh goat cheese

Cornbread (with apple sauce)

Spaghetti Squash with Lentils and Sage
Brown and wild rice

Mixed Sky Meadow Bean Salad 
     with Balsamic Dressing

Shredded Beet, Apple, and Carrot Salad

Greens, White Miso Sorrel Salad Dressing
Pickle beans, cheddar, nuts

Sage Cookies, Wild Peppermint Tea

Saturday Lunch 

Miso Soup   
Fresh bread, rice crackers, Wild Garlic pesto

Saffron White Basmati Rice, Kale stir-fry

Nori Rolls, dipping sauce, wasabi, pickle ginger

Greens, Japanese Salad dressing

Asian carrot salad
Corn and Edame- Sesame salad
Seaweed salad

Tamari almonds, roasted sunflowers and pumpkin seeds

Chai Tea (caffeine free and with caffeine)

Saturday Dinner  

Pumpkin Soup

Tempeh, Stuffed squash with brown and wild rice pilaf

Spruce Shoot Compote, Quinoa and Sorrel Salad

Greens, Raspberry Dressing, leftover dressings

Apple pandowdy

Mint and Calendula Flower Tea

Sunday Lunch 

Sorrel  Soup

Chick Pea Crêpe, Bread

Couscous gratiné, leftovers

Pesto, Goat Cheese

Greens, leftover dressings

Deviled Eggs, sharp cheddar, nuts, leftover salads

Pumpkin Bread pudding, Bee Balm Tea

 

Thank you Juli for the pictures!