Pausing with Plum cake

It’s been a while since the last Feast Your Senses but since the last edition I’ve been trying to work out how I can bring it back. 

It’s the same but a bit different. It still portrays the idea of slowing down, taking note, tasting, savouring and nourishing ourselves but it’s going to have more of a Pausing angle to reflect my relatively new concept - short guided mindfulness sessions designed to help you reset and return to the present, both in daily life and at work. 

Feast Your Senses was about feeding the senses through travel, food, recipes, views, quotes and music, whereas Pausing is about mindful stillness - for want of a better phrase. Both are simply ways of living in the present moment. 

I’ll still share recipes and ad hoc Feast Your Senses moments. This week I’m sharing a plum cake recipe - a ritual of slowing down in the kitchen - plus pork dumplings that are delicious, quick and easy to make. 

I’ll also begin sharing Pausing thoughts - small reflections to ponder on whilst eating the above cake with a cuppa perhaps? And remind you of the little ways we can centre ourselves. 

Ponder on this: “What does balance mean to you - the sense of steadiness or instability that may arise in daily life?”

Helzie x