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In 2010, Pachamama Catering transformed yet again when more life changing events took place. I moved to a beautiful property on a tranquil Spanish hillside with panoramic views, and an abundant fruit orchard, where I started my own retreat venue: Casa de Laila | Glamping & Retreats.

I accommodated guests in beautiful white canvas bell tents dotted amongst the fruit orchard and I invited teachers of various disciplines to come and bring their students for a week or weekend of deepened practice. I relished in the opportunity to prepare nourishing and delicious meals from my very own kitchen. It was a dream!

Then Benjamin entered the picture and the dream got even better. Benjamin, an Australian, was at the time in the middle of travelling Europe after a brief career in sport and studying in nearby Granada. One auspicious day his path crossed mine, and from that moment onwards weโ€™ve spent almost every day together.

Our backgrounds couldnโ€™t have been more diverse, resulting in us learning a great deal from one another other and complementing each other. Benjamin was raised on a ten-acre rural property just outside the quiet city of Adelaide, an unheralded gastronomic wonder of Australia.

Often kept in the shadows of more populous and well known Eastern states cities, Adelaide is a heaven for foodies; it is a non-touristy city where restaurateurs must win over a diverse food-savvy local population who are spoilt with world-class wine regions, fertile farmlands and pristine beaches overflowing with the highest quality seafood.

It is a kind of perfect storm for food lovers – one that has resulted in Adeladians not only love good food, they expect nothing less. Benjamin was spoilt for choice. This, together with the influence of growing up with two vegetarian sisters, shaped his outlook/vision on food tremendously.

Benjamin very soon had a big impact on Casa de Laila, and my kitchen became our kitchen. Being one of the first glamping sites in Spain, we were skyrocketing to international success. Before we knew it, we were fully booked each season, with holiday guests, yoga retreats and wedding couples. Our kitchen now developed to new levels of productivity: delicious dinners three times a week for our holiday guests, yogic food for all the retreats, and celebratory food for lush wedding banquets.

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Creative and innovative

I was touched and delighted to find that Anne Marie and Benjamin have been inspired by my books in their Pachamama kitchen. Their creative and innovative Moorish and Mediterranean dishes are exquisite and their ideas for catering events and workshops exciting and fun.

Claudia Roden

Claudia Roden

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2017-12-11T14:12:49+01:00

Claudia Roden

Claudia Roden
I was touched and delighted to find that Anne Marie and Benjamin have been inspired by my books in their Pachamama kitchen. Their creative and innovative Moorish and Mediterranean dishes are exquisite and their ideas for catering events and workshops exciting and fun.
https://www.pachamamaorganic.eu/testimonials/creative-innovative/

Loved from the inside

Pachamama Organic provided the food for us when we gave a concert in Malaga. Healthy food prepared with so much care, and most of all extremely delicious! It made us feel loved from the inside!

Deva Premal & Miten

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2017-12-11T14:29:45+01:00

Deva Premal & Miten

Pachamama Organic provided the food for us when we gave a concert in Malaga. Healthy food prepared with so much care, and most of all extremely delicious! It made us feel loved from the inside!
https://www.pachamamaorganic.eu/testimonials/loved-from-the-inside/

Nutritious & Light

Since almost a decade we and the practitioners on our Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga retreats in Portugal enjoy the vegetarian and vegan cuisine of Anne Marie & Ben. The extremely tasteful meals are perfectly adapted to the needs of our spiritual and physical practice: very light, full of energy and the loving vibes radiating from their kitchen are absolutely contagious!

Daniel & Annette - Yoga Bija

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2017-12-29T15:09:25+01:00

Daniel & Annette - Yoga Bija

Since almost a decade we and the practitioners on our Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga retreats in Portugal enjoy the vegetarian and vegan cuisine of Anne Marie & Ben. The extremely tasteful meals are perfectly adapted to the needs of our spiritual and physical practice: very light, full of energy and the loving vibes radiating from their kitchen are absolutely contagious!
https://www.pachamamaorganic.eu/testimonials/nutritious-light/
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๐Ÿ“™PRE ORDER THE COOKBOOK NOW ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿป๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿฟ

๐™ป๐šŠ ๐™ฟ๐šŠ๐šŒ๐š‘๐šŠ๐š–๐šŠ๐š–๐šŠ | ๐™พ๐š›๐š๐šŠ๐š—๐š’๐šŒ ๐™บ๐š’๐š๐šŒ๐š‘๐šŽ๐š—
๐Ÿฅญ Friends โœจ Everything takes its time, and ap ๐Ÿฅญ
Friends โœจ Everything takes its time, and apparently, creating a cookbook takes a bit more time than we expected. We kindly ask you for a little more patience. It IS coming. And we can't wait either... ๐Ÿ’›

In the meantime, here is one of our favourite photos from one of our most loved sweet recipes in the book:

โšก๏ธ A cultured cashew cheesecake with white chocolate, macadamia and mango. โšก๏ธ

Yes, it's as good as it sounds. And if you have ordered The Cookbook you will soon be able to make it in your own kitchen! 

๐Ÿ–๐Ÿฝ from Vanesa @vane_vivir_slow 
๐Ÿ“ท by Aleksandra @asimplelifeproject 

#vegancookbook #plantbasedcookbook #vegetariancookbook #veganrecipes #plantbasedrecipes #foodstyling #foodphotography #whitechocolate #macadamia #cashewcheese #vegancheesecake #fermentation #culturedcashews #recipedevelopment
โœจโœจโœจโœจ Nature's bounty. A reminder that all โœจโœจโœจโœจ
Nature's bounty. A reminder that all we really need is already here, provided by nature: clean food, water, air...

Giving thanks for the miracle of life unfolding continuously... magic is everywhere, no matter what.

May the new year 2021 be creative and unifying, bringing us together as a force for good, joined in love as children of our Mother Earth. 

๐Ÿ„๐Ÿ„๐Ÿ„๐Ÿ„

How to Make a Revolution: III

BE LIKE MUSHROOMS.

Spread your mycelial threads, underground, and connect them, out of sight.
Extrude them, extend them, link them, clamping one to another in a pattern with no center to destroy, no head to cut off. 

Then exude. Sweat out the revolutionary fervor that dissolves old structures, that breaks toxins apart.

Extend your reach, link root to root.

Trees feed their young through subterranean fungal webs. Be a conduit. Take in. Share.

Be like mushrooms, ephemeral, mostly invisible.

Pop up everywhere, overnight, and then disappear.

BUT ALSO BE LIKE TREES.

Grow slowly. Push up from below, when youโ€™re ready.
Draw from deep sources, but also take in light.

Build structure. Flex and strengthen your fiber so when the storms hit, you can hold your ground.

Feed on light, on air and water. Grow.

Grow so tall that you can be seen from everywhere, a brave silhouette that shapes a new skyline.

And donโ€™t grow aloneโ€ฆ
๐ŸŒณ๐ŸŒณ๐ŸŒณ๐ŸŒณ

by Starhawk from the book 
City of Refuge: the Sequel to the Fifth Sacred Thing

๐Ÿ“ท by @silviatarifayoga 

#happy2021 #nye #outwiththeoldinwiththenew #mushroomrevolution #treerevolution #anewera #wearenature #respectourmotherearth #cometogether #belikemushrooms #beliketrees #ecophilia #peacelovehappiness #bettertogether #connected #upwardsandonwards
โ˜• Seasons turn and time is flying. This fruit lo โ˜•
Seasons turn and time is flying. This fruit loaf with figs is a sweet memory of late summer.

Our photographer Aleksandra from @asimplelifeproject took this shot in September, with plenty of figs around.

If I would make this cake now in November I would choose a pear topping. ๐Ÿ

The recipe for sensational seasonal fruit loaf you will find in ๐ŸŒฑ The Cookbook!

๐Ÿง‡link in bio๐Ÿง‡

๐Ÿ“ท @asimplelifeproject 

#eatingseasonally #welovefigs #fruitloaf #glutenfree #keto #sweettreat #veganbaking #vegansweet #plantbasedchef #plantbasedcookbook #vegancookbook #selfpublished
โœจ Benjamรญn and me in our kitchen yesterday, loo โœจ
Benjamรญn and me in our kitchen yesterday, looking at a little video we did for an #indiegogo campaign update!

We are now in the final stages of the production and almost ready to set the printing press in motion. Exciting! The recipes and text are written, the (beautiful!) photography is complete and we are now in the last moments of editing, refining, polishing and tweaking all the last details.

We are however finding this last step of the process is a lot more time-consuming and elaborate than we had anticipated. For this reason we have taken the deicison to delay the release of the book by one month. Yes, this means the book will be with you in the new year rather than by Christmas. 

It has been a difficult decision to take, as we know many of you have genrously bought multiple copies as a Christmas gift for love ones. But we know that it is 100% the right decision to ensure that the book is exactly as we want it to be. We feel it necessary time to do a good job, rather than to rush. We are sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience. 

Hop over to our Indiegogo campaign for a full update and to download a gift card that you can use in case you had intended for the book to be a Christmas present! Link in bio!

#pachamamaorganic #husbandandwifeteam #thecookbook #plantbasedchef #vegancookbook #plantbasedcookbook #eatmoreplants #selfpublishing #cookbookauthorlife
๐Ÿพ Our other hairy child - Rami Bear. So gratef ๐Ÿพ
Our other hairy child - Rami Bear.

So grateful for the love that our four-leggeds bring to our little family.

๐Ÿ“ท @asimplelifeproject 

#dogstagram #fourleggedchild #doggo #muynoble #gudboi #goodboy #mylove #blackdogsofinstagram
โšก๏ธ Walk barefoot ๐Ÿฆถ Listen to the wind ๐Ÿ’จ โšก๏ธ
Walk barefoot ๐Ÿฆถ
Listen to the wind ๐Ÿ’จ 
Drink in the moon ๐ŸŒ™ 
Be magic... ๐Ÿค

๐Ÿ“ท @asimplelifeproject 

#alchemy #everydaymagic #witch #thinveil #betweenworlds #todossantos #halloween #bluemoon #bluespirulina #samhain #honoringtheancestors #todoslossantos #diadelosmuertos #plantbasedwitchery
๐ŸŒธ Late summer garden dinner with dear friends.. ๐ŸŒธ
Late summer garden dinner with dear friends... ๐Ÿค

These times, more than ever, are a reminder to cherish the ones we love. All that matters really is how much you love and are loved.

We love to love at a beautiful dinner table with close friends, while sharing stories and good food! โœจ

So grateful to have you in our lives, dear friends! ๐Ÿคœ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿค›๐Ÿผ

#pachamamaorganic #plantbased #plantbasedchef #tarifavegano #privatediningtarifa #dinnerwithfriends #privatedininggibraltar #privatediningsotogrande  #tablescapes #tablestyling #bohochic #nestandthrive #lovemyfriends
ใ€ฐ๏ธ Enjoying good food is an experience for all ใ€ฐ๏ธ
Enjoying good food is an experience for all the senses! I love creating a beautiful table as a place to gather, connect and share stories, while eating delicious food!

Obviously I have a ceramics obsession - so much that one of the highlights of my year is to drive to Portugal to my favorite pottery shop to find lovely bowls, pretty plates and mix and match the most gorgeous things together!

And now, with all the #foodphotography for our upcoming #cookbook I actually had a legitimate reason to get more dish ware!

By the way - you can still pre-order ๐ŸŒฑThe Cookbook๐ŸŒฑ link in bio!

๐Ÿ“ท by @asimplelifeproject

#foodphotography #dishware #ceramicsofinstagram #ceramics #recycledglass #beldi #beldistyle #prettythings #tablestyling #foodstyling #pachamamaorganic #privatechefs #plantbasedchef
๐Ÿ‚ Yay! Stew season is upon us! The unmistakabl ๐Ÿ‚
Yay! Stew season is upon us!

The unmistakable smell of autumn is in the air and all of a sudden we find ourselves craving nourishing, warming bowl food.

I came across this recipe of @alisoneroman published in the #nytimesfood .

Basically itโ€™s a chickpea coconut curry with greens.

With a hashtag of its own - #thestew - it apparently โ€˜broke the internetโ€™ when it went viral back in 2018.

Long story short - I can see why this recipe is so popular. It is

ใ€ฐ๏ธ brilliantly simple
ใ€ฐ๏ธ cheap
ใ€ฐ๏ธ easy
ใ€ฐ๏ธ quick to prep
ใ€ฐ๏ธ freezer friendly
ใ€ฐ๏ธ nourishing
ใ€ฐ๏ธ and most importantly - so goooood!! ๐Ÿ’ฅ

I served this one with some whole grain basmati and a dollop of my homemade goats yoghurt!

Our neighbor has goats that roam free and I buy my milk from her to make this yoghurt. If you prefer to keep it vegan, you could use a dollop of unsweetened coconut yoghurt.

Canโ€™t wait to make it again!

#autumnfood #bowlfood #chickpeacurry #garbanzolove #soulfood #comfortfood #plantbased #easydinner #weekdaydinner #pachamamaorganic
๐ŸŽถ Itโ€™s Jamu! Itโ€™s Jamu! Jamu in the name of ๐ŸŽถ Itโ€™s Jamu! Itโ€™s Jamu! Jamu in the name of the Lord! โค๏ธ๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ’š

Take your daily Jamu for instant mojo! Be gone, viruses! Radiate, skin! Be strong, life force! ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿป๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿฟ

This power concoction contains:

โšก๏ธ fresh turmeric root
โšก๏ธ fresh ginger root
โšก๏ธ peppercorns
โšก๏ธ clove

One of the many recipes you will find in The Cookbook - a limited self published Edition, available via the link in bio!

We discovered the wonders of Jamu when we were in Bali a couple of years ago.

Itโ€™s an acquired taste but once youโ€™ve learned to love it, you will want to drink it by the bucket.

We now make it at home and have a shot every day - itโ€™s so yummie and its the best way to fight inflammation and boost your immune system!

๐Ÿ“ท the wonderful & talented Miss Aleksandra Olejnik from @asimplelifeproject 

#thecookbook #pachamamaorganic #vegancookbook #plantbasedcookbook #vegetariancookbook #veganrecipes #plantbasedrecipes #indiegogo #indemand #jamu #mojo #foodasmedicine #healthelixir #tonicum #turmericshot #turmeric #curcuma #curcumin #immunebooster #antiinflammatoryfood
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