Chicken Potpie from Ad Hoc
Fair warning: tonight's entry will read more like a journal entry than a recipe reminder--you have been warned. It's simple. Really, it's just chicken pot pie. However, it's a pot pie from Thomas Keller via Ad Hoc. So, while it is simple, it does take many steps. Simple seems nice these days. I just finished teaching a two-week course on yoga and stress relief for teenagers. Wonderfully, we talked about mindfulness, growth mindset, and reducing judgments and negative self talk. We went to a zendo and sat for a meditation and drank tea. We practiced yoga outside in Briones Regional Park (where two cows ambled into our field after we were finished with our practice). We brought in someone who studied Sanskrit, another who gave us an overview of the nervous system and its connections to restorative yoga, a counselor who talked students through some basic dialectical behavioral techniques regarding Wise Mind, and a dear friend of mine who led a yoga cl