Have you ever wondered what is the recipe for success? Well here is my recipe.

Ingredients

Two free range eggs – exploration, determination, potential

Half a pint of milk – love

1kg of organic home milled flour – substance, practicality

tea spoon full of brown sugar – happiness, optimism

pinch of salt – tolerance, compassion

Break the eggs into a mixing bowl. It is impossible to start any enterprise without losing something. Eggs are already perfect and contain the potential for life. However they must be broken before other processes can start, even if this is painful. The cook must be aware that the eggs begin a long journey of alchemical change and transmutation.

Next add the organic unpasteurised milk. It must be unpasteurised because heating to high temperatures destroys the life and goodness in the milk. So avoid any processes that involve destruction and negativity. However detached you are, processes that cause harm will always affect you. Organic means that it has not been treated artificially for the benefit of the farmer rather than the hungry. Beware of the motivations of others as they may not share your interests. Milk is a wholesome food, like eggs, at the beginning of a journey. As in life we all need as much goodness as possible to keep us nourished and expanding in body and mind as nature and the angels intend.

Now sift in the flour and stir into the milk and eggs. The sifting is necessary as not everything is as good as it seems. There will always be some lumps and bumps on the way that just have to be removed or avoided. This is not you but the flour at fault, and although it may feel wasteful, the interests of the final result takes greater precedence than avoiding waste. You may find some other use for the lumps if that really bothers you. The effect of the flour will be to bring the fluids into a more stable, solid state. It is good to be flexible but you can have too much of a good thing and the adding of a solid ingredient brings the mixture into a state of being solid and flexible. Much easier to work with and meet the desired result.

Now add a teaspoonful of brown sugar. The final mixture will be far easier to enjoy if it is done with the positivity and zest that we obtain from sugar. Anyone who is feeling down needs the boost that sugar provides. Go easy on the sugar though because too much can become harmful, even poisonous as ethanol.

Finally, add a pinch of salt. In this recipe it is vital that no dogmas are entered into. Following ideas and procedures blindly will produce consistently boring food. It will sustain for a while but eventualy the pattern becomes more important than the plate. When you see this happening to you, add salt to taste, even if you doctor has told you to avoid salt. All rules are made to be broken and in moderation will set a new and exciting direction to travel.

Now make the mixture into a ball and place it on a cold surface dusted with flour. Roll out the ball until it is a flat circle and place on a baking tray for twenty minutes at 180C.

Life is an alchemical process and we are transmuting base ingredients into something greater with every breath we take.

One final foot note. You might be feeling that this recipe could have been longer or shorter. It might have included some more exciting, interesting, unusual, bizarre ingredients. Of course it could. And I have jotted it down not so much as anything worldly or wise but lead up to an observation by the Chinese philosopher and mystic, Lao Tsu who said; a good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.

May I paraphrase him a little with the final ingredient;

The good cook has no fixed recipe and is not intent on eating.