Coconut Millet

It won’t be an easy post, but I need to clear my head a little bit and writing helps. Four days ago my grandma Cecylia died. I’m still shocked. I was supposed to spend a week with her on the second half of February, but it won’t happen. My sister told me on last Friday that she was taken to a hospital. I bought tickets for my small family and on Sunday we were in Warsaw. Tomasz took care of Mia and I went to a hospital to see Cecylia. It wasn’t easy. She was tired and in pain. She kept talking about our old house, where she had a garden and animals. She used to love that place. Then she told me that her heart is in pain. Few hours later she died. I managed to visit her only twice, as she died on Monday. I really regret that Mia will never meet her. My sister Monika, who was the closest with my grandma, gave me her favourite neckless that she was always wearing and one day I’ll give it to Mia. On Thursday there was a funeral and now my grandma is not with us anymore, at least not physically. It’s hard to cope with it.

She was a crazy and beautiful soul. With a perfect sense of humour – she used to say that she’s like a drunk rabbit, she made this unique jokes. Never said a bad word about anyone, respected people and could see a good side in everyone. She raised us and I remember all the funny things she did even though at the time it wasn’t fun for me. She was a flirt. Even when I saw her the last time she told me that she wanted to drink some water and asked a young handsome boy to help her, she was super happy about it. Most probably this boy was in his 40, but for her he was young. She wanted me to have a house with a garden full of veggies, fruit trees and animals. She loved animals. And she was so happy when I gave birth to Mia. She wanted me to have a child as I used to tell her that most probably it will be only me and Tomasz (how crazy was that!). I could tell you few amazing stories about her, but it’s too hard to write trough tears. I’ll write them all down for Mia, so she can know a bit about her beautiful great grandmother. She was an amazing soul. I’ll miss hear each day.

My grandma really liked oatmeal, apples and dried plums. I do as well 🙂 Mia has her hands. I really hope that she will have her sense of humour and character as well. And her wisdom about life and people.

You will need:

• 1 cup millet
• 1 cup coconut milk
• 1 cup water
• 1 tbsp rice syrup
• ¼ tsp cinnamon
• ¼ cup goji berries

To serve with:

• fruits
• coconut milk
• cherry compote
• coconut flakes
• linseeds
• pistachios

Place millet, coconut milk, water, rice syrup and cinnamon in a small pot and bring to boil. Reduce heat to small and cook until millet is thick and all the lickuide sucks into it (about 15 minutes
). Meantime add goji berries so it will soak a bit as well.

Serve with fruits, few spoons of a coconut milk, cherry compote, coconut flakes, linseeds and pistachios.

Enjoy, Marta