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Emma Frisch

Chef & Cofounder of Firelight Camps

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🌲GIFT CERTIFICATE SALE!🌲 ⠀ ⠀ 'Tis the season for gift giving and @firelightcamps is celebrating with 15% OFF gift certificates this month! 🎁 ⠀ ⠀ What I love most about this gift idea is that you are giving someone an unforgettable experience rather than another physical thing. 🏕⠀ ⠀ And, to make your gift even more irresistible, we teamed up with fellow Ithaca-based brand, @emmysorganics, to include a FREE coupon for their Coconut Cookies with each gift certificate purchased in December. (They're the perfect trail snack!)⠀ ⠀ You can purchase a gift certificate with the 15% discount by calling (607-229-1644) or emailing reservations@firelightcamps.com.⠀ ⠀ Happy gifting and glamping! ❤️⠀ ⠀ Photos by @rkwphoto⠀ ⠀ #firelightcamps #glamping #glampinglife #glampingnotcamping #luxurytents #experiencegifts #adventureseekers #planyouradventure
Happy #nationalcookieday! 🍪 Ayla’s Lemon-Olive Oil Thumbprints are one of my favorite cookies in the world (and hers too). They’re gluten-free and nourishing, while tasting so decadent! They’re packed with protein from almond flour and tahini, sweetened with honey, and made zippy with lemon zest. The best! We pack them for road trips, trail hikes, and generally keep a jar stocked in the kitchen. 🐝🍯 If you are still waffling on holiday gifts, give yourself this recipe (and so many more) with my cookbook #feastbyfirelight (link in profile ☝️📚).
Weekend goal: find at least twenty minutes to be alone in the woods, ideally with something delicious that I can eat in peace without a baby attached to me and a toddler hanging off my lap, pawing me with grubby hands, and eating off my plate. Reasonable goal, right? Just enough to reboot me back to the charge of mammahood! I really do love my kids, so much so that I need to remind myself to make space for loving myself too!!! 😂❤️ Have an amazing weekend! 🌲☃️ PS. Winners for the #feastbyfirelight and @lotusfoods giveaway are announced in my story! Thank you @miir for making it possible for me to actually have a warm bowl of ramen in the woods - these insulated food canisters rock!
Even though @firelightcamps Is closed for the season, it’s still our backyard and we love to check on the frames to make sure they’re still standing (and chart new fresh tracks in the snow!). ❄️⛺️ #glamping #visitithaca #runwildmychild
GIVEAWAY! ☃️⠀ ⠀ If your eyes are blurry from Cyber Monday shopping, here’s a giveaway that I hope will remind you to get outside and eat something delicious! ❄️🍜⠀ ⠀ During the last three months of newborn life (or the “fourth trimester”) I can’t tell you how much I’ve LOVED @lotusfoods’ ramen packets (and really ALL their products). They saved me when I had a baby over my shoulder and one hand to cook, or needed a last minute family meal (a few packets topped with steamed broccoli and pan-roasted salmon is delish!). Now that I’m hiking more in an effort to reboot my body, I’ve found they’re also the perfect meal to whip up and take on the trail in an insulated canister. ⠀ ⠀ So, I’ve teamed up with @lotusfoods to GIVEAWAY a copy of my outdoor cookbook #FeastByFirelight and a variety bundle of gluten-free ramen packets to TWO lucky winners! 💫⠀ ⠀ To Enter to Win (U.S. entrants only)⠀ ⠀ 1. Like this post⠀ ⠀ 2. Follow both @emmafrisch and @lotusfoods⠀ ⠀ 3. Comment below tagging your favorite camping buddy and on-the-trail dish⠀ ⠀ 4. Winner will be announced on Friday the 30th!⠀ ⠀ Buon appetito! 🤗⠀
Sometimes I have to slap myself to remember I live in one of the most magnificent cities in the country. I can walk to these falls in ten minutes, fifteen tops. And this is just ONE of the falls within walking distance from our downtown house. It was so fun to take my family here the day after Thanksgiving, even though we froze our tushies off because it was 15 degrees F! ☃️🌞#visitithaca #ithacaisgorges #iloveny
Today, I realized that as a first-generation American I was never raised with the traditional “pilgrim and Indian” story at Thanksgiving, which I hope most of us know by now is a complete fabrication. (Thank you @wildforageflx for sharing this amazing article in @time reflecting on the history of the holiday: https://bit.ly/2zkzslH) ⠀ ⠀ My mom @fenellapearson always hosted Thanksgiving because everyone else was on holiday and doing the same, and so she made up her own story for us. It was about giving thanks for the abundance in our lives and eating home cooked, homegrown (or grown close to home) food with loved ones. It was about being together and present with each other. It was about offering gratitude to Nature - the source of who we are and what we eat - where we’d walk off the turkey on a family hike the next day. ⠀ ⠀ And it’s no surprise that these are all values held dearly by the native people of our land, who have set an example for us in how to care for Mother Earth, her gifts and each other. The Haudenosuanee Thanksgiving Address is a profoundly beautiful prayer that gives thanks to every element of the Natural World, and I’m excited to introduce it to my family tomorrow. (I’m hosting my first Thanksgiving and thank goodness it’s a potluck!!!) ⠀ ⠀ In my new blog post (link above ☝️) you’ll find the link to the Thanksgiving Address as well as a new, kid-friendly recipe that is a perfect last-minute side dish: Tart Cherry Polenta Fritters (made with @farmergroundflour corn and Finger Lakes-grown fruit). 🍒🌽⠀ ⠀ To honor this sacred time, I’m going to disconnect from my phone so that I can connect with everything and everyone around me. And myself. ⠀ ⠀ I’d love hear what Thanksgiving means to you and how you plan to celebrate! I look forward to reading your comments after the holiday 🤗.⠀ ⠀ Wishing everyone a happy Thanksgiving and sending love to those who especially need it this time of year! 🧡
Just in time for Thanksgiving, I want to share the result of an incredible project with my dear friend and amazing photographer @jamielovephotography! ⠀ ⠀ This is Part 1 of two maternity time lapses we created, one outside (despite the elements!) and one in her studio (coming soon with Cora's birth story). This was a project I had dreamed about initially while pregnant with Ayla, and thanks to Jamie, was finally able to manifest with Cora. ⠀ ⠀ The result is 9 months of pregnancy in 35 seconds. While this barely begins to sum up the fullness of the journey, it gives a powerful glimpse into the super human power that is called MOTHERHOOD. 🤰⠀ ⠀ The synchronicity of my pregnancy with the seasons felt primal, inextricably linking me to my own life force as a woman, a mother, a sister, and a daughter, as well as to the Natural World from which we’re born. What's more, this moving maternity portrait is the perfect metaphor for gratitude this week.🙏⠀ ⠀ Read more about on my blog (link in profile 👆) and get my Thanksgiving-inspired recipe for Tart Cherry Polenta Fritters, or "cookies" as Ayla and I like to call them. 🍒🌽⠀ ⠀ The lyrics to this song by @beautifulchorus, "Change Arrives" are perfect: I change. I flow. 🌊⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #maternityshoot #maternityportrait #maternityportraits #pregnancyportrait #pregnancyportraits #motherhoodunplugged #pregnancyjourney #pregnancytimelapse #9monthspregnant #thanksgivingrecipes #thanksgivingrecipe #cookingwithkids #kidscooking #newbornportraits #maternityphotographer #newbornphotographer #outdoormaternitysession
Dreaming about apple crisp drenched in cream. Aren’t you?! 😍🍎🐄 Apple Harvest Crisp is in #FeastByFirelight, and there’s a variation on the blog too - search “crisp.” What desserts will be on your Thanksgiving table? #thanksgivingdessert #thanksgivingdesserts // 📷 by @chwhat

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