welcome home !

Due to popular requests from our retreat guests, I’m sharing my super simple, yet divine-tasting, protein-rich lemon almond cake recipe 😉
It was originally created in response to having way too many lemons 🍋😂 — and it has since become an absolute favorite.
Ingredients:
200 g almond flour
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
100 g cane sugar or 120 g date sugar
Juice of ½ lemon
Zest of 1 lemon
Slices from ½ lemon
For decoration:
Fresh rosemary flowers
Extra lemon zest
Glazing:
Greek yogurt
Vanilla extract
Lemon juice
Cane sugar (to taste)
Instructions:
Preheat the oven to 160°C. Lightly grease the bottom of a silicone cake pan with olive oil.
In a bowl, mix all the dry and wet ingredients until well combined. Arrange the lemon slices on the bottom of the pan, then pour the batter over them.
Bake for about 30 minutes. Allow the cake to cool completely.
To prepare the glaze, mix Greek yogurt with a little vanilla, lemon juice, and sugar to taste. Spread over the cooled cake. Decorate with rosemary flowers and fresh lemon zest.
Voila! Simple, nourishing, and full of sunshine ✨#lemoncake #highproteinmeals #healthycake cake ...

We had our olive oil pressed and bottled in December. It is definitely the best we’ve made so far 😇.
We take a good care of our trees, fertilise, trim and prune them at the right time.
This time we collected olives at a perfect time (can be tricky difficult to do so), only from the branches, none from the floor. We took them to the press within 2 days of collecting them. This step is very important because the longer olives sit in the sacks, the worse they get - they can get wet, rotten or soft from sitting in the sun. Commercially pressed olive oil producers cannot move so fast because of large quantities. Also they use higher temperatures to extract more oil per kilogram of olives. Below 27 C is legitimately considered cold pressed, however…. We’ve learned that truly cold pressed olive oil means that olive paste stays below 23 degrees Celsius.
Boutique high-quality premium extra-careful producers aim at pressing at this temperature. Ours was pressed at around 22 C😊💪🏻
Why premium?
There are many reasons: when the temperature is lower you get less oil extracted making it more expensive (less yield higher quality), more polyphenols and antioxidants get intact in the oil, shelf life extends, and of course - complex flavour!
It is also organic as we don’t spay our trees with any pesticides etc.
We produce olive oil for sensory quality and health, not volume.
All who come for a retreat at Harmony Home Wellness, enjoy olive oil in limitless quantities 😊 and 100% of our cooking is done with our olive oil, an important health benefit.
It is a pleasure to share the labor of our love with our guests 😊💕

#retreat# #yogaretreat #evoo ...

We welcomed the New Year at Harmony Home Wellness Retreat surrounded by sunshine, warmth, and deep relaxation. Our days flowed with daily yoga, nourishing stillness, and soothing massages for everyone, allowing body and mind to fully unwind. On New Year’s Eve, we gathered for a special celebratory dinner followed by our cherished spiritual fire ceremony—a Harmony Home Wellness tradition where we wrote down and released into the flames all that we were ready to leave behind in 2025, creating space for renewal and intention.
Some guests come back year after year to celebrate New Years at Harmony Home which is always a treat 🙏🏻❤️

#yogaretreat #retreat #newyearscelebration #retreatcenter #wellnessretreat ...

Very fond memories of Christmas 🎄 @harmonyhomewellness with a wonderful cohort of retreat seekers from all over the world❤️

#christmastime🎄 #retreatlife #retreatcenter #yogaretreat #retreat ...

Part 2 as promised - how we press olives into olive oil.
This is organic EVO extra virgin cold press.
The 2nd, 3d and more presses the mill keeps for themselves to later sell it as olive oil of a lower grade.
Hope everyone enjoyed the insight 😊 into making olive oil. 👍🏻
@harmonyhomewellness
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#olive #yogaretreat #oliveoillovers #oliveoil #retreatcenter ...