Butter Chicken with Spinach
6 skinned and boned chicken breasts
3-4 Tbsp dried cumin
1/4 cup unsalted butter
1 cup whipping cream
2 cups sun dried tomato sauce
2-3 finely diced hot peppers
1 Tbsp fresh, finely grated ginger
Salt to taste
Black Pepper to taste
5 cups fresh, washed and dried baby spinach
3/4 cup fresh, washed, chopped, coriander
1. Cut each chicken breast into 3 or 4 large pieces. Dredge the pieces through the cumin so that they are evenly coated.
2. In a large sauce pan, on medium high heat, melt half the butter. Place half the chicken in the pan and sear for 5 minutes, turning often. The chicken should be golden brown on the outside and uncooked on the inside. Remove to a bowl and repeat with the remaining butter and chicken.
3. Remove all the chicken from the pan, reduce the heat to medium low and pour the whipping cream into the pan. Using a spatula, scrape all the bits from the bottom of the pan. They will add great flavour to the cream. Stir in the tomato sauce, hot pepper, ginger, salt and pepper. Place the chicken back in the pan. Bring to a quick boil and then reduce the heat to medium low and cover the pan. Simmer for 10-15 minutes turning the chicken occasionally. Increase the heat to medium high and stir in the baby spinach and coriander. Simmer until the spinach just wilts. Remove the pan from the heat. Serve immediately ... as a one dish meal ...with basmati rice and garnish with a whole hot pepper.
This recipe comes from the
Kitchen Connaisseur Website
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Greetings!
Rukhshana has just returned from a ten day breathwork retreat with Dan Brulé in the deserts and mountains of Baja Mexico. Dan is a breathwork pioneer who has taught more than 60,000 people around the world to use breath as a tool for growth and change, in spirit, mind and body. Rukhshana will be sharing what she's learned in the upcoming Breathwork Seminar at Harmoni.
Read on to discover a great place to find fresh fruits and vegetables at affordable prices, the most valuable free relationship gift for valentines month, (and every month), an easy and very tasty recipe for butter chicken and spinach along with the usual humour, inspirational quote and videos to help you weather out the weather. This month also launches the start of a new Photo feature - West Island: Then and Now.
With Love,
Rukhshana and Ian |
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A Valuable Relationship Gift That Costs No Money by Ian Ramsay
Valentine's Day gives us an opportunity to recognize those we love most, (and greeting card companies an opportunity to make large amounts of money). You don't have to rely on Hallmark holidays to remind you to express gratefulness to others. The gift of appreciation can be given every day.
Like all heartfelt gifts, appreciation provides warm fuzzies to both the giver and the receiver. It grows and expands the experience of value as you give attention to someone's skill or unique trait. When you speak with the intention to recognize another's essence, they bloom and you bloom. Everyone present benefits.
Many people believe that another person must do something first in order to deserve a compliment. This would be like a gardener announcing to his flowers, "I'll water you guys only after I can see that you've started to grow". In fact, the reverse is true. Appreciation gives space to grow by creating the magic of connection.
If you are new to appreciating others, (or yourself), here are some sentence stems that can help you get started.
- The thing I appreciate most about you is...
- I appreciate your skill in...
- I appreciate how, without being asked you...
- I appreciate how you give attention to...
All it takes to begin is to focus on the positive in another. Then take a breath and say what you have noticed in one or two sentences. The intention to appreciate will carry your message regardless of your skill level, and you'll soon find that the more you do it, the more things you'll notice.
Often when we receive a compliment, we feel the need to deflect it by saying things like, "It's really nothing", or "I had lots of help from others". The way to receive appreciation is to take it in with a deep breath and really savour it as it to flows through you. There is no need to create stress for yourself by trying to think up a complement in order to reciprocate. A smile or a simple thank you is all you need to do to acknowledge the recognition.
No single act can get people unstuck, re-establish the field of love and fill the reservoirs of connection faster than appreciation. Give yourself the gift of appreciating several people this week and watch how your relationship is enlivened immediately. You will create aliveness with a flow of openness that deepens intimacy and connection.
Inspired by Gay Hendricks
You can learn other ways to increase love and intimacy in the "Creating Lasting Love Workshop" on February 26th.
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Upcoming Courses and Workshops
Awakening Mindfulness
This eight week course will help you to solve the fundamental problem of discovering who we really are. Additionally you will:
- Discover and build self esteem
- Dissolve stress
- Handlle fear, self-sabotage, over commitment, self-criticism, procrastination, and blaming others
- Create thriving relationships
- Begin to manifest a life of your own design
Each class begins with an engagement activity to introduce the concept, informal discussions of real-world situations to illustrate the concepts, and activities galore so that solutions are integrated more readily into day to day behaviour. Breathing techniques, grounding and meditation activities are featured in each class.
Dates: Tuesday Feb 21 - Apr 10
8 Weeks - No class during March Break
Time: Tuesdays 7:30 - 10:00 PM
Price: $315 (tax included) - with extended take-home notes
What will you do with YOUR new life?
TO REGISTER: (514) 695 9025 Email us at: info@harmoni.org
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Creating Lasting Love Workshop
This workshop will introduce you to five techniques that you can begin using right away to create lasting love in your relationships.
- Enhance accuracy, empathy and problem solving with whole body listening
- Increase intimacy by telling the microscopic truth
- Communicate in a positive way that stops arguments
- Use appreciation to bring more pleasure into your life
- Make co-commitments you can keep
Creating Lasting Love will help you to deepen your capacity for enjoyment, connection and enduring love. You will partake in fun, experiential activities designed to help you to integrate the techniques. Come alone or with your significant other and learn how to nourish Your Couple!
Rukhshana and Ian have been a couple and worked together for eighteen years.
Date: Sunday, February 19
Time: 2:00 - 5:00 PM
Price: $40. ($70./couple)
Please register in advance
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Breathwork Seminar
 The long-awaited 4-hour Breathwork Seminar is back. If you have taken it once or twice before, there will be new exercises and processes - you know the value of doing it on a regular basis. If you have never experienced breathwork, this is your chance to give yourself a profoundly life-changing gift! Breathwork is the ULTIMATE tool we have to heal ourselves on all levels - mind, body and spirit. Rukhshana has recently returned from a personal 10-day Breathwork retreat herself! - Calm stress and mental upheaval and muscular tension- Full oxygenation of cells and release of toxins and fatigue- Dissolve past emotional trauma, negative mental patterning and debilitating cellular memories- Improve memory and enhance your clarity of thought- Increase energy, creativity and personal power - combat addictions- Experience a better quality of sleep. Breathwork is energizing, deeply healing and produces life-long, transformational change. This life-work is not done all at once, but 'one breath at a time'. It is guaranteed to produce lasting, transformational change. We will have fun discovering how your body currently breathes, learn lung and chest-expansion movements and experience a fully supported, transformational breathing session with pillows, blankets and loving presence. We will conclude with a grounding circle, sharing and a fruit feast.
Please bring a mat, blanket, pillow, water bottle and some fresh fruit to share.
Date: Saturday, February 25
Time: 1:30 - 5:30 PM
Cost: $75 (Returning students $60)
Please register in advance
Rukhshana Surty has studied Breathwork with Dan Brule, Dennis Oullette and Dr. Gay Hendricks. She is Director of Harmoni Holistic Center, a Body-Mind Therapist and teaches meditation, massage, yoga and breathwork.
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Inspirational Quote
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"There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living" | |
Nelson Mandela |
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Sami Fruits
February can be a disappointing month if you enjoy eating fruits and veggies with flavour. If you're tired of paying a mint for a limited assortment of flavourless fruits and veggies, you may find it worth the trip to Lasalle to buy fruit, vegetables and nuts that are fresh, varied, and reasonably priced. The photo above will give you some ideas of the quantities available. Sami Fruit also features a fruit bar where you can pick up fresh, flavourful mango, orange, papaya and pineapple juices for $2.00 a glass...yum!
Sami Fruit is located at 400 Lafleur Avenue in Lasalle.
The store is open from 9:00 to 7:30 six days a week and closed on Tuesdays. (there are others around Montreal)
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West Island: Then and Now - pictures/text by Ian Ramsay
145 years separate these two photos of Windmill Point in Pointe Claire village. The windmill was built in 1710 and is the second oldest of the four mills that survive on the island of Montreal. In 1911 the city of Pointe Claire adopted the windmill as its symbol.
March 13, 1867
December 29, 2011
To find out more about the old windmill:
link to Windmill History
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