"The waves will keep coming, but you learn to play with them."
Today's guests, Anna and Marco, learned adaptability through their mutual passion: surfing.
This adaptability has allowed them to transition from a carefree surfing lifestyle, marked by ease and minimalism, to a bustling life of parenting two small children and running a thriving surf camp.
Mellowmove Surf Camp is a haven where people can learn to surf and relax. Thanks to Anna and Marco’s hard work and meticulous attention to detail, their guests get to experience a lifestyle of freedom and the rhythm of the tides.
Guests also come, of course, to EAT. Anna's delicious, home-cooked, seasonal, locally-sourced, plant-forward dishes are a highlight. Today, Anna shares a recipe for Kaiserschmarrn with us, an ultra-rich and fluffy torn pancake covered with powdered sugar and served with the homemade applesauce and stewed plums she remembers from her grandmother's pantry.
Anna has inherited her grandmother’s culinary talent, organizational skills, and values of never wasting food, creating delicious dishes for her guests. As if running a kitchen for 40 isn’t enough, Anna also shares her best dishes, beautifully photographed, on her cooking blog, The Mellow Kitchen. After today’s episode, you’ll want to learn more, so find links to The Mellow Kitchen and Mellowmove Surf Camp in the show notes.
Highlights
- How and when Marco and Anna each learned to surf
- Why surfing is more difficult than other sports - and why snowboarding didn’t necessarily prepa
- The surfing lifestyle is about being content with what you have.
- As a real surfer, you are not really living with the clock, you are living with the tides of the ocean.
- I remember saying to my friends and colleagues, “I just fell in love.”
- I chose this recipe because it shows where my cooking comes from. I have a lot ore Anna for surfing
- The feeling Anna and Marco chased on the board - total focus and freedom from other thoughts and the connection to nature
- Marco’s experience seeing the ocean for the first time
- How Marco and Anna recreate the “surfing lifestyle” for their guests.
- Kaiserschmarrn!! The flavor, look, and texture of this classic Austrian dessert (or main dish!)
- Anna’s grandmother, Kaiserschmarrn, seasonal cooking, and how to make
- How Anna managed to cook a seasonal menu for 40 people a day at the surf camp while carrying on her grandmother’s value of zero waste.
- Local ingredients in Portugal and favorite dishes of the surf camp guests
- The beaches and surfing experience at Mellowmove Surf Camp - a remote uncrowded beach on a World Surfing Reserve
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