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Cooking Fresh from The Farmer’s Market
with Suzanne Landry, Organic Chef, author of THE PASSIONATE VEGETABLE
Sunday April 22 @ 12 pm
What new treasures will be harvested this spring? We are so excited to have Suzanne Landry teach another healthy choice class! First you will meet us at the Lavender Inn then walk a few doors down to the Ojai Farmers’ Market where Suzanne tours and shares her depth of knowledge of vegetables, herbs, and other healthy foods. Afterwards you will return to the kitchen where Suzanne will demonstrate and prepare bounty from the seasonal foods.
The Menu Includes: Blood Orange Salad with Fennel and Olives; Spicy Fried Cauliflower with Yogurt Aioli Sauce; Arugula Salad with Sundried Tomatoes and Organic Golden Balsamic Vinaigrette; Fresh Garden Quinoa Salad; Farmer’s Market Surprise Fruit Dessert
This class is limited to 12 participants. $65 per person
Contact The Ojai Culinary School at 805.646.6635
* We would like to extend a very special thank you to Suzanne for participating & volunteering her time in this year’s InnCourage Retreat for Women with Cancer. She took special care in demonstrating how the right foods can heal & provide energy as well as beauty. The ladies of the retreat thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated your care!
The Lavender Inn is not just a Bed & Breakfast. It has become a platform for finding ways to help others.
Over three years ago, we started a retreat for women with cancer called INNcourage. Once a year we close our doors to the general public for three days, to provide a space for healing, INNcouragement, comfort & love for women with cancer. Members from our community extend themselves to contribute dinners, lunches, massages, facials, yoga, counseling, and love, while we provide the place to rest, make friends, elevate souls, have time to one’s self, think about nothing and, of course, have a delicious breakfast.
When these beautiful ladies attend the retreat, they come in not knowing that when they leave, they stand taller, smile longer and feel lighter. You’ve heard it said before… “It takes a Village…” and we can’t thank those that participate in life changing retreat enough. Thank you: Feast for feeding our souls, Ann & Mary for relaxing our bodies, Brook for Healing our hearts, Casey for bringing out our inner beauty, and so many more.
INNcourage is not a cure but it is a REfresh button. Read more in this amazing article written by Heath Croft in Innkeeper Quarterly.
Another amazing program that we’re involved with is Clean the World. The Lavender Inn has joined Clean the World in their effort to help save one million lives each year by donating it’s slightly-used soap and shampoo. These products often end up in landfills and contaminate fragile ground water systems.
The Clean the World program is helping to save lives around the world by donating discarded soaps & shampoos so that those less fortunate can benefit from the practices of good hygiene. 3.5 million children under the age of 5 will die this year to two deadly diseases – acute respiratory infection & diarrheal disease. Even more tragic than these is the facts that these deaths could be prevented by up to 65% through simple hand washing with bar soap. Today in the United States alone, we will throw away 1-1.5 million bars of soap. We save unfinished soaps and shampoos and deliver them to the program and distribute to those in need. For ways that you can contribute from home, click here.
It doesn’t end there. All of the ladies from the the Lavender Inn contribute in being of service to others in our special way. Wether it’s making cash donations to causes, assisting someone in the community or simply being there in conversation, Kathy, Beth, Diana, Caitlin, Genoveva, Tanya, Pam, Michelle, Vanessa & Conchita are always here to lend a helping hand.
CBS Evening News provided a wonderful profile of Clean the World
co-founder Shawn Seipler and our response to the cholera outbreak
in Haiti. Watch as Clean the World lives its mission to help stop
the spread of preventable disease and promote a “hygiene
revolution” through simple hand washing with soap.
The Lavender Inn is proud to be a part of such great efforts. For more on our contributions, please visit our site.
A FUNDRAISER for The Ganga Prem Hospice in Rishikesh, India.
Join us for a VEGETARIAN FEAST created by The Mistress of Spice, Aparna Khanolkar. Enjoy Live Classical Indian Music, Cello and Santoor Raagas. EXPERINCE Henna and Bindis and poetry of India
The MENU includes,
Rasam Soup (a tangy spicy tomato brothy soup with curry leaves), fried Papadums, 3 Chutneys , assorted Pakoras, Vegetable Pulao, Naan, Baingan Bhurta (roasted eggplant in a tomato ginger sauce), South Indian Coconut Kootu with assorted Vegetables, Blackeyed Peas Curry, Kheer (rice pudding) and Date Balls for dessert. Mango Lassi or Pear Martini
India Festival — A Celebration of Ancient Magnificence
Nov 11, 2010 6-9p.m.
At the Lavender Inn, 210 east Matilija Street, Ojai
805.646.6635 Innkeeper@lavenderInn.com
$70 per person. Seats are limited
Vegetarian Feast hosted by Aparna…The Mistress of Spice
at The Lavender Inn on November 11,2010…amazing buffet,
live music, poetry. Benefit for Gunga Prem Children’s Hospice
in N India $65.00 Indian Attire Encouraged
The Bed & Breakfast program that is helping to save lives around the world by donating discarded soaps & shampoos so that those less fortunate can benefit from the practices of good hygiene.
3.5 million children under the age of 5 will die this year to two deadly diseases – acute respiratory infection & diarrheal disease. Even more tragic than these is the facts that these deaths could be prevented by up to 65% through simple hand washing with bar soap.
Today in the United States alone, we will throw away 1-1.5 million bars of soap.
The Lavender Inn has joined Clean the World in their effort to help save one million lives each year by donating it’s slightly-used soap and shampoo. These products often end up in landfills and contaminate fragile ground water systems.
Click here to view their latest NEWSLETTER.
