A recipe: Turkish style eggs with spiced yoghurt, greens and sourdough
For a while now, I have been wanting to develop TYH into more of a regular blog, a bit like my old one, Mrs Rachel Brady, where I used to write about my life and mainly do recipes but also travel posts and general lifey things. Something which provides grounded help in day to day life for the person in charge of running the home! I want it to be all of me, all of my heart š, just for you - in a more practical, helpful ā3Dā way!! By which I mean, sharing not just sporadic thoughts on yoga and how it relates to my life, but recipes, homey ideas, as well as spirituality. Through the LENS of spirituality, actually... š
For me, being homey is just WHAT I DO! Iām JUST like Meghan (ahem), I just EMBODY domestic goddess-like wonder!! No, only joking. (Iām way too swear-y and messy to be like Meghan as much as I love her!). But I do love cooking, homemaking, and living as naturally and holistically as possible. Iām really passionate about it being OK - no, more than OK - SUPREMELY important, to be a homemaker and for more of us to recognise and realise itās importance and how much it matters.
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To realise in this lifetime, right now, that it might be THE most important job.
And I donāt care if that is unfashionable. I do not care. Because itās true.
Iām not telling everyone to stay home and not work. This isnāt about keeping women in the kitchen. If thatās not your thing, GREAT! I love that for you.
I love and admire women who are killing it it the board room; itās just not for me! (Also, you better believe that someone is holding it down at home - whether thatās a partner, a nanny or a relative - and thatās cool too - they are the homemaker - it doesnāt really matter who it is, but itās important!)
For those of us who love to be at home, who love to be in the garden, in the kitchen, creating, writing, being a carer wholeheartedly, as an act of love and devotion, as a CAREER, then this might be a substack that you enjoy. Please š do share and subscribe, as this helps me grow. I am aiming to write several times a week, of not daily when possible, so letās create a great, soulful homemaking community together!
Back to what I was sayingā¦ I understand the need for more, which is why I always end up creating something about my life, my YouTube, my podcast, my yoga classes. These are all parts of me. I can help there too, and will be writing about how to create a soulful business that you love and that fits around kiddoes.
My most ME part of me, is me at home. And instead of seeing it as separate from my yoga, I want to write here regularly remember that it is my yoga.
I mean I say it daily, but here goes if you havenāt heard it already: yoga is life. Itās all of us. Itās everything. Itās how you show up. The mat part is helping us to destress and create space so we can show up better.
Imagine if everyone came home to a cosy, love-filled home. To a wholesome home cooked meal. Imagine if we all used sustainable cleaning products and grew veg and baked bread. Yeah, itād be pretty great eh?
So, I donāt do all of this perfectly. Not at all. My bread yesterday was flat. My littlest eats way too much Weetabix š . I like the odd Maccy Dās! Yeah, I can dip in and out of my holistic goddess-ness LOL. But the older I get the more I realise this is all I want. Holistic. Natural. Real. Sustainable.
Yoga isnāt at add on to that; it IS that.
What people think yoga is: bending into shapes that are only possible to fit young skinny white women.
What yoga actually is: a system for living that helps us all remember our oneness. Living with love. Remembering that we are earth: we came from there and weāll go back there.
There are SO many elements to yoga. Sure, there is the marvellous asana practice - girl loves a stretch! But also let me give you an example of another branch of yoga: Karma Yoga, which Chat GPT helpfully described for me:
Karma Yoga is the practice of performing one's duties without attachment to the outcome, dedicating all actions to a higher purpose or to the greater good. It teaches that we should act with full awareness and integrity, but without ego, expectation, or desire for personal gain.
This is so resonant with homemaking, but it also applies to whatever you do, for love. Not for gain.
Quickly though, just to reassert something:
Being a householder isnāt the same as being a homemaker.
But because I know everyone links the two, I chose it as my name.
So, to reiterate, a householder is someone who lives a spiritual life without renunciating completely, like a nun or a monk has.
ANYONE who is spiritual and committed to being spiritual in their life, is a householder.
However it is always used in parlance as an allusion to the householder stage of life. I.e. when we are working, raising kids, etc.
Itās a vague term to be honest, but it resonates so much with me.
I take pride in being a householder, in every sense.
My house is not perfect. My meals arenāt always great. I lose my shit often.
But I see what I do as LIFE. When I am not aligned in this truth, I see anything external to that as The Thing. And I chase The Thing as if IT will make me complete. And in the act of chasing, I forget who I am. I forget the sacred act of love. I forget that heaven is right here, in the shape of 3 kids who all go on screens too much and fight with each other! (And are, occasionally, ADORABLE). Itās in the shape of a man who I met when I was 21 and who cured me of my problem that I wasnāt capable of romantic love. Itās all right here in front of me.
OK, enough waffling about what it is I want to do - and why. Time to DO the thing ā¬ļø
And today I wanted to share a recipe perfect to end fasting, or for brunch (which is when I tend to do that, on fasting days). Itās what I ate yesterday.
So, I am That Perimenopausal Bitch in the Streets Tryna Eat Protein and Not Getting Around to Lifting Weights. Hence the protein level in this recipe! Holla to my PM girlies out there! I see you.
This is a really simple, healthy, wholesome nourishing lunchy brunchy. So easy, too.
Just a quick note to say that my ārecipesā are always very approx, and casual. So donāt worry if you havenāt got this or that - I actively encourage winging it in the kitch, as thatās literally what I do on the daily.
Hereās what I used:
2 eggs, organic if poss
Half a tub of Greek yoghurt
Pickled garlic, few cloves OR a squeeze of garlic puree or a grated or crushed garlic clove
Spices: paprika; turmeric; chilli flakes
EV olive oil
Some nice vinegar (like ACV or white wine vinegar)
Good salt (I like Maldon)
Slice of sourdough
TONS of salad leaves - equivalent to a whole bagful
A few tomatoes
Hereās what I did:
Fry your egg in olive oil and pop your sourdough in the toaster
Grab your yoghurt and add in a little garlic, sprinkle in liberally the spices, and swirl EV olive oil through it - mix a little but keep the marbling effect
Grab your leaves - douse liberally in oil and a little vinegar and a pinch of salt, massage them so they wilt a little. Plate this as a bed for the rest of it.
Chop toms roughly into cube type shapes, toss in a little vinegar and salt. Scatter on top of eggs, which you can also place on the leaves by the way.
Dollop, heavily, the spiced yoghurt.
Add extra spices and chilli flakes.
DEVOUR.
Ways to hang with me!
Yoga online, 2x weekly: Tues lunchtime class and Thurs eve class
Seasonal Day Retreats with me in Peak District
Sacred Sundays Yoga Workshops also in Peak District
Luxury Sober Womenās Retreat in Cornwall Nov 2025
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