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90-second Cookbook Trailer

When I’m not tarting around, or talking about my ghee, I’m praising the life of Honuts. (The Healthy Donut).

Maybe I should have called it The Wholefood Whore?

Out now, in American bookstores.

 

 

 

Calling all beloved New Yorkers, see you in Rizzoli Bookstore @6pm, Feb 13th? I’m plotting to lure you into bookstore signings with indecent amounts of raw chocolates and aphrodisiacs.

xxx

 

 

Filmed by Saskia Vermeulen.

Photograph by Joanne Murphy, The Virtuous Tart cookbook.

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Tart Takes Wings!

The Virtuous Tart is being released in America and Canada next week. Yep, I am now exporting my potty mouth and my irresponsible relationship with cacao.

For all my friends across the Atlantic, you can grab it right here for pre-order price. Yahtzee!

I want to thank some of my greatest food heroes in the US and Canada, who are helping me mouth off about my cookbook (see below, for their beautiful comments). They have made this Irish lass dizzy with giddiness and gratitude.

And I want to thank YOU. Yes, you, without whom none of these crazy-assed recipes could transpire. You give wings to my words. I dedicate this book to you.

xxx  Susan Jane

 

 

Melissa Hemsley, Hemsley & Hemsley:

“Susan Jane has a special affinity for giving everyday foods a healthy and delicious boost.”

 

Imen McDonnell, of award-wining blog Farmette :

“She is the best thing since iced tea!”

 

Amy Chaplin, author of At Home in the Wholefood Kitchen :

“Have you ever giggled your way though a recipe method? I hadn’t either until The Virtuous Tart landed in my kitchen. This cookbook is seriously the most fun you’ll ever have discovering and embracing a whole world of delicious wheat, dairy and refined sugar free treats, drinks and snacks.”

 

Laura Miller, Raw Vegan Not Gross :

“Susan Jane inspires with her beautiful and nourishing recipes that just so happen to also be packed with energy-boosting, body-healing nutrition – the kind of cookbook I’d want to pull from my shelf every week!”

 

Laura Wright, of the award-winning blog The First Mess :

“This beautiful book proves that you can truly have it all while still committing to your most vibrant and healthful self.”

 

Emma Galloway, My Darling Lemonthyme :

‘Quirky, super fun food’.

 

Sonja Dahlgren, Dagmar’s Kitchen :

“Susan Jane’s passion is infectious. All of her recipes are so smashing delicious and wholesome at the same time–I love everything she whips up!”

 

Beatrice Peltre, La Tartine Gourmande :

“Where Ireland meets California, with delicious food and entertaining prose.”

 

Donal Skehan, chef, author and TV presenter :

“Hilariously written, and filled with doable and exciting new recipes.”

 

Victoria Smurfit, Hollywood actor :

“Eat like a pig, feel like a swan. Only SJW can manage that. Genius.”

 

 

 

 

Events, x Skin Food x

Irish Alchemists: skin food part 3

You know those extortionate face creams, designed to lure you from your money and your trusty brain cells? The big branded ones, created in labs with unpronounceable ingredients?

They don’t work.

An industry does not grow into a $460 billion monster by permanently solving the problem it is designed to address.

Unless the ingredients were hand-harvested by George Clooney, and blessed by Kylie Minogue under a full moon, I’m not falling for it. Ever. Again.

We deserve more respect. (So does my overdraft).

 

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What hooked me into making my own beauty products at home was the undeniable pleasure it adds to everyday life. The commercial cosmetic industry is a headless beast, driven by an insatiable libido of profit. For them, it makes perfect business sense to use cheap, low quality ingredients with glitzy branding. I can’t stand being their target. So I vote with my wallet. It’s as good as giving industry giants the two-fingers and beatifically laughing into my own crazy cool lab.

So in 2017, I’ll be continuing to post DIY skincare recipes using ingredients you’ll find in your own kitchen. Natural ingredients like argan, honey and rosehip are potently strong. It’s skincare with integrity. They outshine all the high-branded crap.

For now, here’s a list of rad Irish alchemists, making their own organic skincare products. They deserve our support and applause (especially if it’s unlikely that you’ll whip up your own badass body oils). These are my favourite of the lot.

 

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> Blue Flower Face Serum, by BARECHIC SKIN <

 

Fiona Carr is the wizard behind Barechic Skin. Fiona hand-crafts all her products on the west coast of Ireland, and never ever uses anything but pure, cold pressed, ethically sourced oils like pomegranate, tamanu, argan, seabuckthorn, rose otto and rosehip seed. I am obsessed with anything and everything she makes. You will be too.

 

HORRAY FOR …

… the scent. Utterly beguiling. I feel like Sophia Loren wearing her skincare range. The scent does something funny to my confidence and imagination. Bewitching.

Their boutique packaging puts Barechic way above anything else on the Irish market. They’d make very slick gifts for guys and girls.

Vegan friendly.

 

OH DRAT …

Very difficult to find. I think it’s only private clients for now, until Barechic’s online stable launches. Contact via Twitter.  (If you’ve found it elsewhere, please let me know in the comment section below).

 

LOVEBOMB FOR …

Tired skin. Dry skin. Combination skin. And comes personally recommended for exhausted mums who just want to feel sexy again.

 

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> Rose Mist Water, by Flourish Organics <

 

Flourish is a tiny company in Kerry, run by a very cool couple who sent me up samples to try out. They hand craft their own ‘beautyful’ creams and serums in micro batches. There’s something very special about using a beauty product that someone personally whipped up for you, only using pure, unadulterated ingredients. It feels both physically and emotionally nourishing.

 

HORRAY FOR …

… no alcohol content. Most toners and mists contain unnecessary amounts of dehydrating alcohol (yes, go check yours. I was so disappointed to see so many brands using alcohol in their toners). Flourish misting toner only has 3 ingredients; pure organic rose water, mulla mulla and shea oak. At €14 for a large bottle, it’s exceptional value.

 

OH DRAT …

Only online orders, and select boutique hotels across Ireland like Brooklodge in Wicklow.

 

LOVEBOMB FOR …

… anyone with sensitive skin.

High fives also for green beauty enthusiasts on a budget.

Great for ex-pats, wanting to order authentic, handmade Irish gear online as Christmas pressies.

 

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> Hydrate & Perfect Treatment Oil, by Georgia Jane <

 

When I started doing DIY beauty recipes on my website, Georgia Jane sent me a few of their hand-made natural serums for inspiration. I hadn’t come across them before, so was fairly stoked to try out a brightening serum for sun damaged skin. Natural aging is their focus, with antioxidant rich botanical oils like raspberry seed oil and watermelon seed oil.

 

HORRAY FOR …

… specifically targets pigmentation. I need all the help I can get. If I develop any more sun spots, my face will look like a map of Europe etched out by a 4 year old with sienna-brown crayola.

Loved the smell, and the science.

 

OH DRAT …

Online orders primarily. Let me know if you’ve found it elsewhere (in the comments below).

 

LOVEBOMB FOR …

… reluctantly aging folk.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And finally, from the Department of Disclosure:

1.     I will only review products I like, and whose work ethics I dig (ingredients derived by nature, organically or mindfully, with no hidden nasties). My grandma always says “if you’ve nothing nice to say, then don’t say anything at all.” While generally this advice can be very unhelpful in many situations, especially if you count yourself as a modern woman or feminist, I think it’s probably spot on for my blog post. So I don’t include products that I disliked, however minor or major.

2.     I do not receive freebies, payment, nor contra in any form for the products that I review on my website.

3.     If I receive sample products to review for my site, you will be the first to know. Full disclosure. You are my friends. I have no intention to mess with your mind.

 

 

 

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Howdy! I’ll be deleting this website shortly. Gah! But please stay in touch – I so appreciate your loyalty and lovebombs.

You can continue to access my recipe drops over on Substack.  Hope to see you there, and to continue frolicking on this veggie-fueled dance floor.