Let Me Help You Love Your Food!

Hello Simple & Beautiful Food Lovers!
Hope your Winter was relaxing and nourishing. I took a little break to allow inspiration to guide me in how to offer my cooking. I'd like to help you really start enjoying what you eat instead of eating what others tell us we should eat.


Let's start loving our food more and enjoying the benefits of choosing what each of us knows is good for our body and soul.  Truly enjoying our food more will start nourishing us more deeply, which can bring a calm steadiness to our days and may allow us to eat less than we are used to. Spring vegetables will also be coming soon from our local farmers, so it's an exciting time to be thinking about eating wonderful food. I've renewed my commitment to preparing food for you with reverence and appreciation of Nature's abundant blessings.

Here's how I'm inspired to do this:

Personal Cooking in Your Kitchen
Simple & Beautiful meals prepared lovingly just the way you like them. Menus customized to your preferences. Local ingredients with a global influence are a specialty. $150/half-day or $250/day* plus groceries

Cook Dinner with Hilary
Enjoy a casual and fun morning or afternoon preparing a meal with me. I arrive with everything we need as we create a joyful atmosphere cooking for yourself or your loved ones. $150 plus groceries

Dinner Parties
Invite a few friends over for a cozy and casual get together and let me plan and prepare the food. Tapas, simple appetizers, global themes, whatever you can dream up. $150/half-day or $250/day plus groceries

Cooking Parties
Invite friends to your kitchen for a fun, interactive cooking session where I will demonstrate new styles, dishes, and techniques according to your desires. $150 plus groceries

I specialize in intuitive cooking, taking your desires and integrating them into simple, beautiful, health-giving meals that feed your body and spirit. My experience and intuition guide me to create a simple menu that works perfectly for you. I intentionally put love into the process, so the benefits of eating this food increase exponentially!

My cooking style is Local-Global...down-to-earth fresh food with a global influence. I love to cook Indian, Japanese, Thai, Mediterranean, African...food with interesting roots and beautiful combinations of flavors.

Please contact me if you are curious about how this might work for you.
615-594-1416
hilclaire@gmail.com

* Day rate includes preparation of fresh, whole food, from scratch dishes that can form the bulk of the week's meals for one or two people, or several beautiful meals for a family. Specific diets are easily accommodated.

Let's Start Loving Our Food!

Hello Simple & Beautiful Food Lovers!
Hope your Winter was relaxing and nourishing. I took a little break to allow inspiration to guide me in how to offer my cooking. I'd like to help you really start enjoying what you eat instead of eating what others tell us we should eat. 


Let's start loving our food more and enjoying the benefits of choosing what each of us knows is good for our body and soul.  Truly enjoying our food more will start nourishing us more deeply, which can bring a calm steadiness to our days and may allow us to eat less than we are used to. Spring vegetables will also be coming soon from our local farmers, so it's an exciting time to be thinking about eating wonderful food. I've renewed my commitment to preparing food for you with reverence and appreciation of Nature's abundant blessings.

Here's how I'm inspired to do this:

Personal Cooking in Your Kitchen
Simple & Beautiful meals prepared lovingly just the way you like them. Menus customized to your preferences. Local ingredients with a global influence are a specialty. $150/half-day or $250/day* plus groceries 

Cook Dinner with Hilary
Enjoy a casual and fun morning or afternoon preparing a meal with me. I arrive with everything we need as we create a joyful atmosphere cooking for yourself or your loved ones. $150 plus groceries

Dinner Parties
Invite a few friends over for a cozy and casual get together and let me plan and prepare the food. Tapas, simple appetizers, global themes, whatever you can dream up. $150/half-day or $250/day plus groceries 

Cooking Parties
Invite friends to your kitchen for a fun, interactive cooking session where I will demonstrate new styles, dishes, and techniques according to your desires. $150 plus groceries

I specialize in intuitive cooking, taking your desires and integrating them into simple, beautiful, health-giving meals that feed your body and spirit. My experience and intuition guide me to create a simple menu that works perfectly for you. I intentionally put love into the process, so the benefits of eating this food increase exponentially!

My cooking style is Local-Global...down-to-earth fresh food with a global influence. I love to cook Indian, Japanese, Thai, Mediterranean, African...food with interesting roots and beautiful combinations of flavors.

Please contact me if you are curious about how this might work for you.
615-594-1416
hilclaire@gmail.com

* Day rate includes preparation of fresh, whole food, from scratch dishes that can form the bulk of the week's meals for one or two people, or several beautiful meals for a family. Specific diets are easily accommodated.

October 20 Bounty

Bulgur Pilaf with Parsley, Lemon, & Currants

bulgur, parsley, lemon, currants, olive oil, bay leaf, sea salt, dijon mustard, garlic, apple mint

Cauliflower & Fennel Saute with Walnuts

cauliflower, fennel, walnuts, umeboshi vinegar, sea salt, olive oil

Mustard Greens, Tomato, & Ricotta Bake

mustard greens (Delvin Farms), tomato (Hidden Valley Farms), ricotta, cottage cheese, farm eggs, sea salt, olive oil

Lebanese Lentil Soup with Orzo 

french lentils, red onion, yellow onion, sea salt, olive oil, white pepper, orzo, lemon, green onion garnish

Rustic Pear Tart

country pears (Bells Bend Neighborhood Farm), maple syrup, whole wheat pastry flour, cream cheese, butter, sea salt

Eating with the Seasons Gets Us in Tune

Each season creates unique changes around us and within us. We are connected to all life around us despite the disconnection our lives sometimes create. One way I've discovered to refresh this connection is through nourishing myself with seasonal foods--vegetables that grow locally & naturally within the season.

I learned the beauty of this awareness while studying Macrobiotic philosophy. I've learned that my body thrives on seasonal food. Even the colors of the produce of the season, orange and green for this Fall season, inspire my appetite. I feel more connected to Nature, to my environment, more grounded, centered, and calm when I pay attention to eating what's growing around me.

Right now, greens are abundant, crisp, and beautiful. I've loved turnip greens, tender green mustard, arugula. I just baked a big beautiful squash I picked up from my CSA today, just with a little salt and olive oil. Gorgeous!

Go to the farmers' market, join a CSA, grow your own...that's how you know you're eating fresh and seasonal.

My menus are created with seasonality as an important factor. Look forward to sustaining, satisfying root vegetable dishes, a variety of beans and bean soups, as well as some international themes to keep it interesting during the cold weather with interesting spices and combinations.

Winter is a challenging season for eating locally, but I will do my best to find locally grown winter veggies. The Winter CSA I've been a member of for years, Bountiful Blessings Farm, grows through the winter in hoop houses. They grow beautiful organic raspberries, strawberries, greens, root vegetables, and herbs. I highly recommend this CSA. They have top quality produce like I've never seen before. Look them up on localharvest.org or bountifulblessingsfarm.com. They might have a couple of shares left. They start soon...November through next spring.

October 6 Bounty

Gingered Acorn Squash

acorn squash, ginger, sea salt, peach lemonade

Barley with Cashew Herb Sauce

pearled barley, onion, dill, sea salt, cashews, arrowroot powder, spring water, shoyu

Sauteed Miso Mustard Greens
mustard Greens (Delvin Farms), barley miso, olive oil, shoyu, umeboshi vinegar

Split Pea Soup with Sunflower Sprouts

carrot, celery, onion, garlic, kombu, green split peas, spring water, sunflower sprouts, sea salt, umeboshi vinegar

Lemon Vanilla Sweet Rice Pudding

sweet brown rice, coconut milk, cane sugar, sea salt, spring water, lemon juice & zest, vanilla, arrowroot powder

October 6 Menu

Gingered Buttercup Squash
Barley with Cashew Herb Sauce

Sauteed Miso Mustard Greens

Split Pea Soup with Watercress

Mango Sweet Rice Pudding

September 29th Bounty

Black Eyed Peas with Arame & Cilantro

black eyed peas, arame, kombu, cilantro, lemon, ginger, shoyu

Brown Rice with Butternut Squash & Pumpkin Seeds

brown rice, butternut squash (Hidden Valley Farm KY), sea salt, pumpkin seeds

Turnip & Greens Slaw

turnip, turnip greens (Delvin Farms), bok choy, umeboshi vinegar, sea salt

Purple Cabbage & Carrot Soup with Yogurt

purple cabbage, carrot, celery, spring water, sea salt, umeboshi vinegar, whole milk yogurt, dill, green onion

Apple Crisp

Jonathan apples (Windy Ridge Farms NC), whole wheat flour, sea salt, rolled oats, walnuts*, maple syrup

all ingredients organic except for *items