A Taste Divine
It was a great joy for Pearl and me to have Adyashanti and his wife, Mukti, as guests in our home, Gurukula, for almost a week earlier this month (Oct. 07). Adya, as he is known, hails from Northern California and had come to Perth, Western Australia, to give some satsang talks and a two-day intensive.
It soon became apparent that Adya and Mukti live in complete integrity with what they know and teach, and make no claims to ’specialness’ whatever. Nevertheless, you cannot be arround this charming couple for long without being impressed by their presence which seems to radiate warmth, depth, humor and a kind of unattached spontaneity.
At one point, in passing conversation, Mukti reavealed that Adya was quite a good cook — particularly in the area of pies and other desserts. Adya said he got most of his favorite recipes from his mother who apparently is noted for her culinary prowess.
Adya’s Perth events left us all glowing and more deeply grounded in love and truth than ever and we were planning a farewell dinnerparty at a friend’s place on our final evening together before Adya and his team flew on to the East Coast for the remainder of his tour. On hearing about this, Adya offered to make an apple pie for dessert, and of course, we readily accepted.
So, on the Monday morning after the intensive, Mukti made up a list of ingredients and we did a quick shop for them at our local stores. Then after an early light lunch, Adya and Mukti took over our small kitchen and set to work on the apple pie. To me, they sounded more like children playing hppily in a sand-box as they peeled the apples, conjured up the pastry and banged about with the cooking utensils. Thse sounds were followed eventually by the most fragrant aroma which issued from our oven and filled the adjacent rooms with a presence of its own. The pie looked wonderful when it came out of the oven and was set on a rack to cool.
Later, at the dinnerparty, when Adya’s apple pie was portioned out, tasted and consumed with lashings of whipped cream etc, all agreed that the taste was simply superb and somewhat distinctive owing to his inspired preference for ginger and cloves to spice up the apple filling. Before they left the next morning, I asked Mukti for a copy of the recipe which she kindly supplied with Adya’s ‘adjustments’. Now we can share the recipe with you, and if you care to try it out and live anywher near us in Perth, I’d be more than glad to sample a piece of your pie and let you know how close you got to the masterPIEce Adya cooked up in our tiny kitchen that day.
