Charlotte Hastings

Sunday simmer ~ 🧜🏽‍♀️ the Fool’s 🧞‍♂️alchemical 🧚🏿 journey 👑 Now I know many of you have been introduced to my book, and may know something about her front cover being the Fool from a set of Tarot (playing) cards by @motherpeacekaren and @vickinobleone ~ on their journey home, knowing who they are in mind body and soul. How incredible that our word ‘magic’ has found its way from the Ancient Greek word, magerios who denoted 💪🏽butcher (preparing the raw ingredients) 🙌🏾Cook (activating and acting out the story) AND 🫶🏽Priest… communicating mind body and soul language between Earth and the heavens…. Now I’m off to a feast and forage day with @forageurban to summon up a little forest magic while letting these thoughts simmer with you today. Happy Sunday dearest fellows on the rocky path to our holy grail or cup of hot chocolate and sprinkle in a little of Mother Nature’s peace love and unity 🧙🏾‍♀️🫦🙏🏽 and activate 🤩your Divine magic 😘 #makelovenotfuel #motherpeace #kitchentherapybook #truefool #foolsgoldtheory

We’re so excited to be part of Reverbathon today, @tastyradiobrighton on air between 1-2pm with incredibly special guests, dear friends and generous supporters @andysturgeondesign special guest @miss.mushroom.uk with chocolates and stories to swap for donations @cacaoco_official starting our sponsor partnership! Draw up a chair, pour a cuppa and enjoy a tasty bite as we celebrate community radio at its delicious best #communityradiorocks #kitchentherapychronicles #gardenerschoice #mushroomchocolate #cacaocommunity

Happy Beltane - bright fire, fire of Bel, the Celtic Deity heralding the abundance of summer Kitchen Sessions CIC will be celebrating with an online presentation Cooking to Rekindle the Feminine Fire Come join us 4-6pm 2nd May Email [email protected] for booking info Proud to be part of @therapeutickitchencollective festival #kitchentherapyinspiration

Today’s @tastyradiobrighton repeat show at 10am show cases the @happy_gut_co who love making their @5oclockapron black bean brownies to snack on supporting busy lives, healthy minds and happy bellies. 🤩🫕💛 Listen in to hear how these brownies are a family favourite with their own signature tune that says it all! ✨Belong Together, Mark Ambor In the therapy kitchen we are big on #banginsomebeans providing cheap and tasty, easy and complete meals that we can all share and enjoy. 🙌🏾 our any time ‘bean feast’ which does a star run in fajitas is a true crowd pleaser, deserving a post of his own! Our @chomp_brighton family workshops get kids involved in the cooking – no such thing as a free lunch – and sitting down to eat together. Being involved in the process creating a #community casserole where everyone plays a part – (it takes a village to raise a meal)– means people feel free to tuck in. My breakfast black bean brownie that was last night’s pudding is full of mud pie magic of my own choosing that feeds the microbiome, imagination and sense of personal power for a Happy Monday How to make these 👯‍♂️ Soak and cook black beans (any left over make a burger or mole perhaps) Bring in their favourite friend, cacao, mine’s from @cacaoco_official Chop dates and find syrup Whisk eggs Collate flours like seeds, almond and the like Melt butter or soak chia seeds Cook and mash sweet potato Flavour with sugar if you like/need, salt, lemon juice, cinnamon perhaps – or whatever YOU chose Bake on medium heat until top crispy on top and gooey underneath Enjoy anytime, with slightly smug grin to power up your week🫕🌅

As part of #mentalhealthmonth the @therapeutickitchencollective are holding a festival of events sharing the holistic benefits and potential of using the kitchen as a therapeutic arena. @foodieacademic and I will be presenting on 2nd May 4-6pm BST 🫕Cooking to Rekindle the Feminine Fire🙌🏾 Exploring the ‘yin’ aspect of food, cooking and eating, as per Mother Nature’s menu plan🌅 We would love to welcome you to the table, exploring ideas together, for further information please DM #kitchentherapyinspiration #naturesmenuplan #femininefire #cooperationovercompetition With huge thanks to @manjawilliamsphotography for some gorgeous images to share the magic of community casseroling delights 🫕🙏🏽💕and the divine @sophieshine5 for capturing me and She on our mission 🧚🏿

Sunday simmer, forgaging and frolicking for lunch 🍀 Ahead of this month’s @radioreverb food and drink show with @tastyradiobrighton , Karen and I enjoyed an early start, finding wild garlic in the woods, followed by a garden treasure hunt on this month’s theme #banginsomebeans 🫕 from an important @food.foundation initiative I keep miso in the fridge and beans in the larder ready for a speedy lunch time meal. Today’s bold beans are a @riverford delivery treat. The @happy_gut_co family will tell us how they power up snacks & meals with the humble but brilliant 🤩bean🤩 Beans, pulses, legumes, lentils are absolute power houses of nutrition but they do need a bit of help from their friends to boost flavour. This time of year our surroundings in Sussex are full of bargain hunt goodies - three cornered leeks might be a weed or nettles a nuisance but my goodness they are delicious and FREE!! With our @chomp_brighton families, we get people picking, chopping and choosing their lunch to connect with the process of feeding ourselves. Even the most resistant youngsters (and their parents) will try things they have the chance to make friends with 1st. Feeling so pleased and proud of what they’ve made 🙌🏾 Being a pack-herd creature, we do love to join in, making what in the therapy kitchen we call a ‘community casserole’ for all to enjoy. Beans are always willing to help out and love being part of the party! Humans love a bargain, so beginning our treasure hunt in our local woods, a trip through the garden and behind the studio, we gathered the bits and pieces we needed for a simply delicious lunch to share, along with plenty of time to plan our shows ahead and we have so much for you to feast on! I made some @samuelwgoldsmith inspired scones to go with our soup, packed full of ground protein packed seeds… delicious Come and join us for an afternoon of conversation, ideas and stories at 2pm (repeated throughout the month) on 97.2fm #kitchentherapychronicles #banginsomebeans #foragingforfun #communitycasseroles

Good news for anyone who has enjoyed our ‘Cacao Kitchen’ series with @therapy.kitchen … her book ‘Kitchen Therapy’ is now available on the Cacao.Co website! As much as it’s a book of recipes, it’s also a guide to develop a deeper relationship with food and the way we prepare and enjoy it. 💫 Available now alongside a special book and cacao discounted bundle 🤎

Sunday simmer – finding our personal power through kitchen therapy🫕🙌🏾💫 Kitchen therapy has emerged from a recipe of lived experience, depth psychology and insights from neuroscience – proving what every infant knows – love matters, it’s an essential nutrient, not just a pretty phrase. The way we eat tells a story of who we are – profoundly social creatures, who need each other to release our interpersonal power. A dear friend @manjawilliamsphotography came to capture a day with @chomp_brighton this Easter, helping us promote our work. This image with one of the volunteer team tells the whole story of people working together to make memories, meals and the odd slice of magic Growing up was a lonely and fearful place for me, so now I know that love matters and that food finds the way to our hearts. Together. Today I help make attachment nutrition, build creative confidence and community casseroles through an understanding of Mother Nature’s menu plan, providing edible spirituality for us all. Digging up the remains of last year’s carrots and turning them into mini morsels of delight is what I like to call making mud pie magic. You know what to do 🧚🏿 Delighted to share my column in BACP Thresholds journal – writing, like cooking helps us connect and understand ourselves. My partnership with @cacaoco_official continues to grow and I’m enjoying preparing next month’s radio reverb show. My younger self would be really rather pleased - so she added part 2 of her video from last Sunday at the end here 🙃 #kitchentherapychronicles #personalpowerthatmatters #changestartsinthekitchen

A little food for Friday 🫕 Kitchen Therapy 🌈has been born out of strong and varied experience that illuminated Mother Nature’s menu plan, whereby food and love make a whole meal, as our word company, from the Latin con panis, with bread, expresses.💫 Hence four key concepts - summarised as ‘rewilding the human spirit’🍀 👩🏽‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏽Attachment nutrition - remembering that dopamine is a relational pathway, rewarding bonding behaviour 🙇🏻‍♀️Creative confidence - remembering to connect with our innate abilities and pure potential 🙌🏾Community casseroles - remembering that it takes a village to raise a meal, each ingredient playing a vital part to the whole dish 🌅Edible spirituality - remembering that Mother Nature is the divine spirit that connects us all in a common language of food This is a programme of practical action from within my home to outside in my community or in conversation online…🙏🏽 My work has taken me to the church lunch club with retired folk and to my @chomp_brighton family workshops that bring youngsters to the table, all supported by the new woodland growth of wild garlic, nettles and dandelions – delicious. Now, at both these events a star player for all seasons is the frozen pea – packed full of nutrition and sharing many qualities of the bean family, full of protein. So it was an absolute delight to meet @samuelwgoldsmith , senior editor at @goodfoodpod (sooo happy with my subscription – which have leant out) to discuss the noble pea and his career, for @radioreverb @tastyradiobrighton Reverb’s food and drink show with Karen Morton. Take a listen to this ( link in bio) and previous shows – last month we interviewed @realizzatodrink about their incredible no waste coffee liqueur – anyone interested in recycling and invention will adore this article. Also on the show was local green grocer, @angmeringvillagegreens Village Greens… who can deliver from the wholesalers directly to your door. Buy and be local, that’s the message – creating attachment nutrition and community casseroles that provide sustainable food for the future. #naturesmenuplan #localfoodheroes #kitchentherapy #banginsomebeans

In the final episode of the first season of our ongoing collaboration with @therapy.kitchen , Charlotte uses the spiced orange infusion prepared in the last episode to make a cup of cacao. Using carefully sourced ingredients and processes that allow for self-reflection, dreaming, and gratitude. 🤎🤎🤎

Sunday simmer ✨ making meals and meaningful, Easter magic🌟 @chomp_brighton Easter workshops were high on fun, low on cost – around £2pp we made a forest feast from wild garlic, suped up with frozen peas and soaked seeds into a wonderful pesto, hummus and scones – a little inspo from @samuelwgoldsmith peas are a staple in these sessions full of sweet protein grooviness and gallantly partnering the green goddess leaves … 🍀🍀🍀🍀 We made traditional Easter nests with grape eggs and a speckled treat too – so impressed no one (nearly) nicked any chocolate on the way.🙊 As we took a moment to consider what we were grateful for before we ate a small hand shot up to say how good it was to be with family and friends.🌹 Settling down to listen to lunch time chatter about who had made what, how the flavours and quantities had been chosen, the favourite parts of the meal and how they might do this again at home, was a true treat – kitchen therapy right there.🌈 Everyone (nearly) had a sticker for trying something new, the food was all finished with people coming for thirds, knowing they were part of the cooking party. Delicious Nature’s menu plan at work💫 Dream job, from forest shopping to family cooking to a table packed with fun🌤️ Recipes without measurements but full of imagination found in ‘Kitchen Therapy, how to become a conscious cook’ 🫕📕 #easterwishestoall #dreamsdocometrue💫 #springmagick #forestshoppingforourdailyfood

Well done to all the brave sea swimmers the other day 💪 These regular events have become a brilliant way to touch base with our Brighton community and to nature and its changing seasons 😍 See you all at the next one!