Sharing requires practice as well as the experience of what it feels like to be on the receiving end of someone else’s sharing. Sharing is a skill most of us learn during childhood and from this we learn about fairness, compassion, and empathy: all essential skills to assist us to live successfully with others in our community. Choosing to share, however, is not always about cooperation but simply choosing to live from the perspective of abundance and joy rather than of scarcity and a sense of entitlement. It comes from that feeling of having enough: enough love; enough food; enough security; enough stuff; enough freedom; such that we can tap into our altruistic selves and give for the pleasure of giving.

Sharing is enhanced when it is shared. In other words, when two or more people come together; who all have enough or simply enjoy the act of sharing, what they share is exponentially shared with others, so grows the gift of sharing.

And to this end, many a recipe is handed down through the ages and shared or adapted and shared with the blessing of those who have already benefited from the sharing. Here is something my partner Michael has shared innumerable times, he never goes anywhere empty handed. These delicious crackers have been enjoyed by many. I hope you too will enjoy this gift.

SEEDED CRACKERS

Ingredients

60g sunflower seeds
20g hemp seeds
45g flax seeds
40g sesame seeds
2tblsp chia seeds
1 tsp Celtic salt
65g buckwheat flour
65g besan flour
100 ml water
50 ml olive oil

Method

• Preheat oven to 180 degrees
• Place all the seeds, salt, and flour in a bowl and combine.
• Add the water and oil and mix to form a dough.
• Divide the dough in half and roll each piece between 2 sheets of non-stick paper to 3mm thick, i.e. as thin as it will go then remove the top sheet of paper.
• Score the dough with a large knife to mark bite-sized pieces.
• Slide onto a baking tray.
• Bake for 15 mins or until golden and crisp.
• Allow to cool on wire racks and break into the bite-size pieces to serve. They burn easily so check before the 15 mins is up!
• Variations: substitute butter/ghee/coconut oil for olive oil.