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Lean Luxury

Lean Luxury is first and foremost about being healthy - both in mind and body. In the words of Winston Churchill:

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

If we strive to make our individual worlds as luxurious as possible we not only give ourself the best chance to be healthy we also gift this to those who share our life - our family and friends.

So it starts with healthy delicious satisfying chef driven recipes and then it's is all about the details,  little touches to create a beautiful luxurious life.   Flowers on the tray, a new book at lunchtime to read as you sip soup or a linen napkin with family supper - treat yourself and those around you.  I like to think of them as little gifts I give myself and others to create happiness.  You don't have to spend a lot of money on this Lean Luxury - I find simple, inexpensive ways to create an oasis of beauty to live in and share with others that I like to call Lucy's Life Hacks.

 

Magazine Feature in Where Women Cook Shepherd’s Pie Recipe

Day 5 – 40 Day Delicious Diet – Butter Coffee ‘Egg Nog’

Day 4 – 40 Day Delicious Diet – The Benefits of Berries

Day 3 of 40 Day Delicious Diet – Butter Coffee + Hamilton

Day 2 Delicious 40 Day Diet – Café con Panna

Lean Luxury Salade Niçoise with Poached Tuna

Glitter Pumpkins for the Holidays

Get Lean with Lean Luxury – Day 1 Delicious 40 Day Diet

Deadliest Catch Crab from the Grill – Celebrating My TV Composer of The Year

Yogurt – Provence in a Glass Jar

easter eggs

Easter Eggs – Fun Crafting Projects

Tempting Thai – Pad Kaprow Moo – thanks Kay Plunkett-Hogge

Rice Bowl – with Fish and Rainbow Veggies

My Makeup Makeover for Spring

Champagne Chairs

Champagne Chairs

How to Make Fuseaux de Lavande – Lavender Wands to remind me of Provence

Rosé Corner – Want to be Invited to the Next One?

Beeswax Travel Candle – an easy gift to make and give

Poached Quail Eggs and Asparagus – Spring Forward Luxury

Labneh Little Gem Tacos, Spring Vegetables, Herbs – inspired by Nancy Silverton

A Christmas Tree All Year – a Tree for All Seasons and Every Holiday

Pretty Pink Pickled Onions – A Lean Luxury Staple

How to get Juicy Tender Poached Chicken

Spring Caesar Salad – Inspired by Massimo Bottura at the World’s #1 Restaurant

Lean Luxury Breakfasts – 7 days a week

Hot Cross Buns Recipe

Confessions of a Greedy Girl – Q&A with Kay

Posh Pancakes – easy recipe

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner – Poulet en Cocotte

Hosting a weeknight winner winner chicken dinner

On Wednesdays Our Salad Wears Pink

Leftovers Vegetable Soup

How to Eat More Vegetables – Roast Them

How to Poach an Egg – Classic Lean Luxury Food

Props for your Breakfast Tray Fit For a Lady

Romantic Nightstand Lucy Life Hack

Chef Yotam Ottolenghi’s Heart Healthy Pomegranate Salad

Lean Luxury Jamaican Jerk Chicken Recipe

Pussyhat Power

Lean Luxury Breakfast Bowls – new Cookbook

Lean Luxury to Brighten your Desk in 2017

Healthy kids breakfast – boiled eggs

Healthy Tomato Minestrone Soup Recipe

Lean Luxury Caviar Recipe for New Year’s Eve

Lean Luxury Salmon Recipe with Pine Nut Salsa

Grilled Lamb Chops Easy Entertaining

Healthy Grilled Trout with Baby Veggies and Jolie-Pitt Rosé

Healthy Ottolenghi Roasted Butternut Squash

Healthy Roasted Butternut Squash Recipe by Ottolenghi

Avocado Toast – with Worcestershire Sauce

Boiled Eggs and Soldiers

Grilled Lemon Shrimp Recipe

Lean Luxury: Fish from Girl on Grill

Masterchef 100th Episode

DaddywithClayontheFarm

Boy on Grill – Perfect Steak

Recipe for Summer Loving

Gourmet Guinea Salad

French Onion Soup - Alain Ducasse, Made in America

Ducasse’s French Onion Soup Recipe

Spinach Salad with Creamy Avocado Dressing

Inside out Turkey Roll-Ups

Pacific Halibut and Asparagus

Healthy Chocolate Pudding Recipe

Harry’s Berries for Breakfast

Happy New Year!

Breakfast fit for a Lady

Last Minute Holiday Gifts Montage

Holiday Gifts that last a lifetime

Remy ladles his chicken noodle soup

Rémy Makes Colicchio’s Chicken Soup

Christmas Cake in a Jar Snow Globes

Christmas Cake Snow Globes – Cake in a Jar

Glitteritis

after the dinner party

Placement – name tags for your holiday table

frittata title

Easy Brunch Frittata

Visiting London – Our Trip in Summer 2014

Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe

Spicy Lemonade

Elsie Makes Blueberry Muffins from MADE IN AMERICA

Filet Mignon and Roasted Root Vegetable Anniversary Salad Recipe

Luxurious Leftovers: Quails Eggs and Caviar on Avocado Toast

cooled beeswax candles

How to make Beeswax Candles

Sleep Title for Mothers Day

All she really wants for Mother’s Day is…

Duck Duck Goose – Scrambled Eggs

poached eggs on buttered toast

How to Poach Eggs by Rémy

eggs - goose, bantam, hens and

How to fry an egg – by Minty

How to make an apron from a tea towel - easy sewing project

How to Make an Apron, A Thousand Things #2

goose egg omelet

Golden Goose Egg Omelet

Love - graffiti Culver City

On Top of the World in LA

The UK’s favorite snack for Easter Brunch – The Bacon Butty

Praline Filled Easter Eggs - chocolate filled Quails eggs

Rococo Praline filled Easter Eggs – Recipe and How to

Greek Farro Salad

Diaries of Every Description

Gluten Free Muffins for Pam

Perfect Shrimp Stir-Fry – Every time

Ottolenghi Cooks Dinner at Mozza

Quick Cinnamon Buns – Nothing New

Almond Brioche Sticky Buns – Keys to the Kitchen

Happy Birthday to You! Squashed Tomatoes and Stew!

Healthy Eating Options – Salad Dressing

The Meaning of My Crown Jewels – not just eye candy

Rachou/Bastianich – Chefs of the Future?

Deadliest Catch – Alaskan Crab Salad Curtis Duffy Recipe

truffle caviar with saffron panna cotta

Seductive Saffron Panna Cotta with Truffle Caviar Recipe

Egg on microgreens – the perfect Gluten Free Breakfast

Scrambled Eggs and Smoked Salmon

Water Water Everywhere

The Artist Wins – Chocolate Croissants to Celebrate ‘French’ Silent Movies

Pancake Day – How to make Perfect Pancakes/Crêpes

Hawaii Made in America 2 – plus Lemon Ricotta Pancake Recipe

Chicken Soup – Lean Fix

A Passage to India – Slow Cooked Coconut Chicken Curry

Lean Fixes – Smoked Salmon, Poached Egg and Micro Greens

Baby Kale Soup Recipe with “Indian stuff”

Handmade Holiday Gifts – Your Perfect Offering

One Ingredient Ice Cream – No Cream Just Bananas

MADE IN AMERICA – [Virtual] Dinner Party Part 1 Apps, Salad and Seafood

Get Lean – Day 5

On a Stick! by Matt Armendariz inspires Chocolate Pudding on a Stick!

Get Lean – Day 4

Get Lean – Day 3

Get Lean – Day 2

Get Lean – Day 1

Boiled Eggs

Chef Rick Moonen – Lobster Rolls and the Best Potato Chips Recipe Ever

Picnic for the Planet

Crème Brûlée Doughnut for New York Sunday Breakfast

Farro For Breakfast

Perfect Pancake Recipe – from scratch

learning to take better pics

Share our Holiday Table – Snow White Soup

Bacon and Eggs – Not Just For Breakfast

Soup For a Rainy Day

Straight to Paris…

Popcorn

Provençal Fish Soup by Chef Alain Giraud

Minty’s Mint, Peas and Yogurt Cheese

Alice Waters inspired Salad Garden

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Made my bed and now I’m going to lie in it... mi Made my bed and now I’m going to lie in it... might not get up until March #stillhibernating #hibernation sounds so much better than #lockdown #stayhome #staysafe #EnglishcountryHouse #BedroomDecor #interiorDesign - I recently completed the @ritakonig course on @createacademyofficial and it’s made me see all the layers to date and ideas for the future. Bed from @heals_furniture Lamps inherited from my great aunt, Lady Lean who had the best sense of taste and style. Bunting - homemade by me from @mintylean @libertylondon print pants and pink toile bedspread was given to me by @rowelosangeles when minty was born and I treasure it - she purchased it in Cannes many moons ago. Curtains v rarely pinned back like this! And nestled in the corner behind the chair is my @away suitcase a sign of hope for when we are all vaccinated and can travel again x #naptime ♥️
#LetitSnow #SnowDay #Lockdown #birdsong #englishco #LetitSnow #SnowDay #Lockdown #birdsong #englishcountryside #englishCountryhouse #Stayhome #Staysafe 

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Always chasing rainbows 🌈 woke up to this odd l Always chasing rainbows 🌈 woke up to this odd light and thought if the sun just came up and it’s raining there must be a rainbow 🌈 and sure enough there it is! New administration and a new day for America and the world #GoJoe #GoKamala #MadameVicePresident
I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watc I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.  #WutheringHeights #EmilyBronte the in between - How it started How it ended - bedroom monochromatic light at 7am this morning to 7pm tonight and cocktail time with Tink gin and @david_austin_roses post parents evening and then in the middle I went on a walk with @chloescotland - actually it was an adventure to find the prettiest 13th century church with a moat and a graveyard filled with snowdrops and the tiniest grave - a child? And headstones that were leaning over - I thought tipsy Chloe thought giving up and I was reminded of the Brontë passage about #unquietslumbers #ghostsinmygarden swop harebells for snowdrops - the peace and quiet of a tiny graveyard with a moat and lopsided headstones and peace and quiet - a moment of calm and hope as the #inauguration looms large and as we keep to the rules of lockdown #stayhome #staysafe
Anxiety levels have been high these last few weeks Anxiety levels have been high these last few weeks and just when you think it can’t get any worse it does - Covid levels rising and hospitals dealing with record numbers of very unwell patients, a third lockdown and schools going online and exams cancelled, then there was the runoff in Georgia 💙 overshadowed by the insurrection in D.C. which led to the swift impeachment (again), there’s the excitement of Joe Biden’s inauguration that is being sucked away by the pandemic, the rise of white supremacy with troops guarding the Capitol and ever present fear.  But through it all we have to have hope - for the vaccine, for the teachers helping our kids learn online, for the nurses and doctors working against the odds, for M&S and Ocado deliveries,for a new administration, for arrests of violent rioters, for congress doing its job and for decency to be about to be sworn in.  It’s a lot and we all struggle daily to keep our heads above water.  On a personal level I find painting helps, as do walks in nature and family suppers, I’m wearing pretty dresses, silk underwear and wrapping myself in soft cashmere and yes I’m consuming more champagne than I usually do - if not now then when?  #Lockdown #Stayhome #staysafe #EnglishCountryHouse #EnglishCountryside
#snowdrops went for a walk to search for snowdrops #snowdrops went for a walk to search for snowdrops today - last year the lawn was carpeted in white, this year nothing.  Maybe they are late? Painted a small bunch #oilpaint #flowerpainting #snowdroppainting a sign of #spring I chickened out of painting the tiny glass jug that was a Christmas present - not sure I know how to paint that aqua colour - help!  #EnglishCountryhouse #EnglishCountryGarden #englishcountryside #Lockdown #Staysafe #stayhome
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