COSY CALM RITUALS ON RAINY DAYS IN TUSCANY, ITALY

Thank you for watching. Click https://betterhelp.com/Kylie for 10% off your first month of therapy with my sponsor BetterHelp. Join over 4 million people who’ve met with a therapist on
BetterHelp and started living a healthier, happier life.
You can find my contact details, postal address, recipes and other info on my website:

Homepage

If you would like to support my work, you can find my Patreon page here:
https://www.patreon.com/KylieFlavell
Every day I get so many emails and comments asking why you can’t locate the music I use or find it using Shazam. I purchase music licenses for almost all the music you hear in my videos. I buy them them from various royalty-free production music sites and most of the time they don’t list the performer because it’s music made only for film productions with an audio watermark throughout the entire track, unless you purchase the single-use license for $50-100 per track. I use a lot of opera so often I’ll reference the opera but I won’t be able to direct you to a recording of that specific performance that you could stream or buy on iTunes or Spotify. Hope that clears things up and thank you for appreciating quality music.
Please don’t follow me on Facebook as that person is not me – they have stolen my identity for the past few years. You can follow me over on Instagram for daily inspiration from Italy and around the world to make you dream, learn a language, cook, travel, move to a foreign country, film, edit or pursue your passion:
https://www.instagram.com/kylieflavell
#Italy #slowliving #cozy

We woke up to rain in tus it seeps through the ancient Timber shutters and makes puddles on our terracota floor I rise at early with John Franco Guido gets up during the night if he cries and then sleeps in after 6:00 a.m. so John Franco and I go to have

Breakfast together and light the fires cushina first the Kitchen I love my mornings with J Franco they feel gentle and intimate before I check my phone before the world has woken Up Back Than at this point he’d already had his first course of breakfast he is a very enthusiastic eater devouring everything from celery and archs to spinach and seab bass it’s such a sacred time of day I try to make sure I leave my phone up in

My bedroom so that he has my my full attention and I start my day without even knowing about emails or messages that might cause my mind to be Fragmented thank you oh oh w W [Applause] [Applause] it’s going it’s going it’s going here it Goes okay thank you good F good f Behind the Bush On this day I went into the village to drop off some library books I’m just sitting here editing eating muffins drinking tea looking at the rain falling outside and it’s so cozy and it’s just off the best conditions for being creative I’ve been feeling really calm lately and I feel like part of that I can attribute to the fact that Guido and

I have been doing therapy I mentioned this a while ago that we started late last year and uh it’s it’s been amazing really because we did it to uh start thinking about how we’re parents in and to provide a really positive model for JE Franco seeing as he’s starting to

Talk now and he’s uh he’s certainly understanding everything we say so I’m conscious of the fact that like he’s absorbing everything that we’re uh saying to each other or how we’re treating each other and so we wanted to really understand how to uh get better at communicating we’re pretty good in

That we don’t ever say really cruel things to each other we don’t like yelling uh but we can certainly lose our patience like everyone and we can always I think be better at um resolving disagreements and so we’ve been doing this uh at night uh 9 p.m. and it’s

Great because then we’ve had dinner we’re relaxed we’ve John Fran goes asleep and we are open to listening to each other and just going through things and also reflecting on the day I think it’s a nice time at night to be able to reflect on on how your week’s been or

How your you know how how your months been uh this video is kindly sponsored by better he and that’s what they do they provide online therapy you just go to their site you fill out a questionnaire so you choose what type of therapist you’d like including like your religion your background your issues

That you’re dealing with and then usually within 48 hours they match you with someone if you don’t like that person you can change at no extra cost and this uh month there giving you guys uh my viewers 10% off your first month so I’ll put the link on the screen and

In the description box and if you want to check that out and see if it’s something that might interest you uh for us it’s certainly been a great thing uh with better help you can have a call or or a video call or you can message in between sessions and and we’ve been

Doing a video call um my the psychologist I found is not with better help we because I started this before they approached me and about this sponsorship but uh we’re we’re doing this video call and I think we wouldn’t go into an office we wouldn’t make time

For it probably if we were going somewhere in Florence and uh being able to do it at home at in the evening when John Fran was asleep is is just everything uh for us because it’s so hard as many of you know if you have a

Child to organize uh getting away and or getting out of the house and and uh so yeah that’s just something that’s been giving me a lot of calm uh lately cozy weather makes me want to bake even more than usual but as you may know I’m off sugar this month so these

Are sugar-free banana muffins usually I mash the banana first but J Franco decided to crack an eggs so that’s the order we’re doing it in can you take another egg another egg and crack it yeah crack crack go cck crack crack back crack back crack here bang bang

Bang good boy and now the opening very SM now we get you ready to try mix mix mix because we won’t get any caramel notes from the brown sugar I like to Brown the butter which is essentially just cooking it until you smell C scent of toasted hazelnuts this will add a

Great depth of flavor sometimes I do half olive oil and half melted butter going to mash it going to mash it okay now the banana yeah with a Masher yeah exactly you to mash it you ready you ready to Mash mash mush mash up it’s okay you’re good you’re

Good ripe bananas create a lot of sweetness on their own but I guess if you’re used to store-bought or Cafe muffins these may not be as pleasurable for you sugar also creates that lovely golden color on top so when you make these they can look a little light even when fully cooked Mashh you want to eat some mhhh Mash good Boyh MH MH thank you yeah you’re right we need to put these In You Okay yeah you want to eat some you want to eat some okay okay I’ll get your spoon M now we can mix mix mix mix mix mix mix mix mix mix mix would you like to add the the cinnamon would you like to add the cinnamon vanilla cinnamon certainly

Helps with adding the illusion of sweetness shake shake shake shake shake good boy some more cinnamon more cinnamon good Bo very and close the lid close the lid good actually let’s add some more let’s add some more more good boy and close the lid close the lid good boy very small very small

Perfect that’s perfect You know what we’re going to do now let’s put the cases on goodbye I make these muffins without ever measuring today I’m trying to be more precise prise and measure in case some of you want the recipe but muffins are really best when you learn instinctively how the batter should look

And feel because so much depends on the texture and taste you prefer when you bite into a muffin and this is just trial and error and hundreds of batches of muffins if I’d had vanilla I probably would have added it but we’ve run out I’m fairly rough and rustic except when

Baking powder is concerned because it tends to Clump and you don’t want a metallic bite of powder when you bite into a muffin I use whole wheat or whole meal flour because I love its nutty flavor and dense texture and it’s better for us you don’t need to sift whole wheek flour

But it was just easier with J Franco this way you bite it good boy now mix mix mix mix okay it’s not the time for mashing but that’s fine yeah no no they say the best way to get magnificent muffins is to make sure they’re very gently mixed at this point

I can feel the air bubbles and fluffiness of the batter should we add some more flour yeah should we make them chocolate at this point I needed to add more flour but instead I decided to add cacao and make them chocolate banana muffins definitely only mix this by hand

And try not to delay once you’ve got the baking powder in get them swiftly into their cases and into a preheated oven uh about 180° C at this point it was Dr Franco’s lunchtime so I put him in his chair to eat and he proceeded to point

And direct my batter spooning while he was dining another secret to perfect tender muffins is to take them out just before you think they’re ready sometimes home Cooks tend to overcook muffins and then they lose all their moisture and Lightness Delicious Thank you for watching and thank you to my patrons who encourage me to continue creating Alima Ah