New creative project!

The Peaceful Belly Kitchen

I have some news.

You may have noticed that I have been quite quiet on here for a while. This has partly been due to work pressures, and partly because I was so sad about the way suffering seems to have intensified in the world and I struggled to write my warm words, in case they seemed uncaring to those experiencing awful things. Even though I know the best way to engage will helping out in the world, is to keep ourselves in a good frame of mind, and that’s what the warm words are about.

But yesterday I decided it was important to remain creative , and give something consistently to the people who are supporting me to write this substack.

I have taken a gamble and organised things so that I can have a whole day each week to work on this. I’m going to use that time to create two books for my paying subscribers. The first 4 installments of each will be free to everyone, to see if I can entice my non paying subscribers to support my work — 4.99 per month. I still value you being here and reading what I put out if that’s not something you want to do.

So, each week on a Friday I’m going to publish the work I have been doing on my books.

The first book is called The Peaceful Belly Kitchen. It’s a fiction book that tells the story of The Peaceful Belly Kitchen, a place where people come to heal, where there’s one rule, no one talks about what they are healing, they just enjoy food and each others company, and slowly, slowly, with the warmth of mellow times and food to heal mind and body; their lives change.

The second book will be Recipes From The Peaceful Belly Kitchen, and that book will explain how to heal digestion, and support our metabolic functions to create the foundations for good health, all rooted in the ancient science of Ayurveda; it will be primarily a recipe book, with beautiful photographs, and an easy read.

I’m beginning with the fiction book — The Peaceful Belly Kitchen — which will have lots of delicious descriptions of food woven into the story.

The instalment each week will be what I have been writing each Friday and not a sequential reading, but once the whole book is written and published, I will send my paying subscribers a pdf of my story, and my founding members will receive a signed copy of both books, along with a signed copy of my other two books — “Your Peaceful Belly” and “The Little book of Ayurveda” (the latter published as a paperback October 2025, the former published by me in 2020 to raise money for urban community food projects).

And so, here is today’s first instalment of, The Peaceful Belly Kitchen, it’s a short one, to get me started, in future they will be longer, but not too long.

The Peaceful Belly Kitchen

To get to the Peaceful Belly Kitchen you can climb over a style, or there is a little gap next to the style that you can squeeze through. Once over the style you find yourself on a pathway that runs through some woodland. It’s a small woodland and within 10 minutes you are out the other side and in a field where you find, The Peaceful Belly Kitchen.

It’s a surprise!

Those that have heard of it, have been coming here for a very long time, and those people; well, that’s what this story is all about. And of course, the food!

Let me start at the beginning.

Pierre, was out walking. Changes had happened and he had to think about what to do, about that.

In his younger years, Pierre had dreamed of being a chef, but that didn’t happen. His life direction was already plotted out for him before he was even born; a good education, a good profession — lawyer — a beautiful wife, 3 perfect children who would have a good education, good professions, beautiful homes where they lived with their perfect partners and children; lives filled with anything anyone could possibly wish for. And this played out seemingly very well.

That is, until Pierre retired. At this point Pierre divorced his wife, changed his name and told everyone his whole life had been a lie.

And that, is how Pierre found himself getting off a bus on a country lane, climbing over a style and wandering, thoughtfully, through a little wood in the spring time, where wild garlic carpeted the ground…to be continued next Friday.

This book is going to be warm and magical, yet rooted in all the simple things that make life good, and us healthy, told through the story of The Peaceful Belly Kitchen, and those that go there.

If during the first four weeks of reading, when these posts will be free for everyone, you decide you would like to support me as a paying subscriber; thank you. And if you don’t, my heart still shines out to you and the Slow Sunday letters will continue each month.

If you know anyone who might be interested in these books, please share this post. I’d also love to hear your thoughts, perhaps you’ll pop them in the comments!

From small beginnings, good things grow.

Warmest wishes,

Lucy x