Celebrating Easter Mindfully / Grandma’s Paska

Slippery, sticky, yellow dough. Exotic saffron. Raisins. Old coffee tins and pretty loaf pans. Generations of women’s hands kneading, shaping, tasting. This is something I want to pass onto our children, especially now that their great-grandma has passed. She would have been 99 this fall! I thought I’d share my grandmother’s original recipe (you can… Continue reading Celebrating Easter Mindfully / Grandma’s Paska

Celebrating Easter Mindfully | Dyeing Eggs

One of my fondest childhood memories of Easter is dyeing Easter eggs in my grandmother’s kitchen, surrounded by family, while snacking on grandma’s famous Paska (Polish Easter bread). I recall the sweet, yeasty taste of the homemade bread, the smell of the local pickerel or ham we’d enjoy later at dinner, the whole boiled eggs… Continue reading Celebrating Easter Mindfully | Dyeing Eggs

Celebrating Easter Mindfully / Natural Basket Stuffers

Whether celebrated for it’s religious significance, as a family tradition, or as a way of welcoming spring, we can all agree that Easter is about new life; blades of grass poking through freshly thawed soil, tender shoots emerging from a deep slumber, just as we breathe in the fresh spring air after a long, dark… Continue reading Celebrating Easter Mindfully / Natural Basket Stuffers