‘Keen’

Ingredients

A voyage of artistic endeavour

A splash of enthusiasm
A lick of lipstick
A punnet of sweet strawberries
A leap of determination
A drizzle of perseverance
A glimmer of a glowing campfire
A shiver of the first snow-fall

Method

Finely dice the ingredients and fry gently. Stir in a fresh walk in the countryside and simmer gently. Serve with optimism and chocolate cake.

A.Cresswell

Recipe for a good mood

Ingredients

A sprig of spring country walk

a spoonful of crunched gravel

A sprig of squirrels springing from tree to tree

add a tangy cupful of secret nature (fresh and moist)

beams of flower scents

Method

Add art, the joy of the first pencil you picked up, the first blue sky you painted, the first illustration on your first birthday card, cut them up and whisk them in.

Include your best mate’s best joke, the feeling of your belly rumbling - the sensation of your chest heaving with waves of mirth. Add blue for the silky sea and the call of bickering gulls. Red for your blood, your secret flower.  Green is your anger and your peace, your silent quiet zone.

Shampoo too, a sauce of vitalising aromas, heavenly fields and star shires. Princesses with hair filled with flowers, mix them all up and allow for a detail of time and patience and then serve.

Liam Michael Hunt

‘Refreshing’

Ingredients

A cup of Spring

A slice of blue

A twinkle of aftershave

An echo of Dunham Massey

A jar of rain

An earful of Dawn chorus

A pound of elephant

A dessert of a bright house

Serves 2

Method

Mix in a pound of wrinkly elephant with a jar of invigorating rain surrounded by rumbling clouds.

Stir slowly with an earful of dawn chorus, as loud as a radio with the volume turned up to high. 

Stir with a brisk echo of historic Dunham Massey and whisk with a twinkle of colourful aftershave and a cup of Spring, as fresh as newly cut grass.

Finish off with a sprinkle of blue, as fresh as the paint on a bright new house.  Open the door to the house briskly and walk into a welcome.

Edward Cowan

 ‘Calming and Happy’

Ingredients

1 mountain of Summer

1 trickle of colours

1 twinkle of sunlight

1 minute of rays of sunshine

An echo of favourite music

1 inch (at a time) of reading

1 stone of happiness

A tps of family and friends

A walk by the sea

Method

Whizz a mountain of colourful Summer with good food.

Beat in a trickle of salmon pink.

Boil a drop of the aroma of perfume as pleasant as rays of sunshine.

Heat tons of seaside with soft golden sand.

Mix with a tablespoon of pleasant company.

Stir in the 1 stone of being happy as a lark.

Vigorously add reading an inch at a time.

Serve with an echo of classical music.

Joy

Recipe for a good mood

Method

Add a handful of sunshine on a warm afternoon

Tablespoon of laughter from good friends

A pound of good food

Mix in some soft rock

Stir in a nice smell of flowers

Add a bath with a splash of red

Arrange taking friends for a meal in the afternoon

Come home and sizzle in front of a fire

Watch good TV or dip head into a book

Scatter into a bed and simmer

Anne Eden

Recipe for a good mood

Ingredients

handful of snow

dash of ethnic music

pair of jeans
Pinch of lavender
A pound of Greek salad
A spoonful of purple

pint of going to the cinema

A dozen art gallery visits

A teaspoon of morning

handful of tulips

Method

Take a handful of snow
Add a dash of ethnic music
Tip in a pair of jeans, mixed with a pinch of lavender
Roughly chop a pound of Greek salad
Bring to boil a spoonful of purple, moderated with a pint of going to the cinema
Select a dozen visits to an art gallery
Add a teaspoon of morning

Lastly bake with a handful of tulips

Dina Poursanidou

Recipe for a good mood

Ingredients

1 Fluid ounce of Afternoon
Essence of rose in a quiet park
4 large scoops of blue sky
1 large comforting rays of sun
2 Magpies settling in tree branches (more or less according to taste)
A hand full of grass
A pinch of the changing colour of the sky with hints of red and blue
1 Litre of pond with ducks bobbing past. 

Method

Pour in the mixing bowl the afternoon.
Crack open the large comforting rays of sun and add to the bowl.
Gently combine combine the scoops of blue sky.
Mix in the essence of a rose in a quiet park.
Folding magpies settling in tree branches.
Gradually combine to the mix the colouring of the sky with hints of red and blue.
Finally pour in the pond with ducks bobbing past mix well.
Pour the mixture into sundae glass and decorate with blades of grass.

Michael

Ingredients

A lb of a stranger’s whistling and laughing in the street

1 tablespoon of a walk in the sunshine

A few good friends (3 or 4 as desired)

1 pint of observing the elegant and beautiful cat

A handful rhymic Jazz music

A pound of the smell of pleasant perfume

1 cupful sunny, warm morning

A cupful of the smell of freshly mown grass

A pinch of the smell of garlic

A splash of yellow

a pound of Red

a dash of light blue

Method

Be careful to wear your favourite clothes of orange Indian suit, red Indian bodice with leggings.

Sprinkle 1 lb of a stranger’s whistling and laughing in the street into a mixing bowl, whisk in 1 tablespoon of a walk in the sunshine. Next slip in 1 pint of observing the elegant and beautiful cat. Carefully pour in a pound of pleasant perfume. Roughly chop the garlic and add a pinch to the mixture.  Scatter a cupful of the smell of freshly mown grass. Stir in your of handful Jazz music. Add your colours, yellow, Red and blue. Place a few good friends (3 or 4 as desired) and 1 cupful of sunny, warm morning.  Stir together until smooth.
Heat together for half an hour on a low heat and your ‘good mood’ is ready to serve.
As a side dish buy humous and pitta bread from your favourite shop. Serve with a mixture of playing with dogs and children.

Tricia

Ingredients

1lb of bird’s song

A Dozen blossoming trees

A spoonful of red-admiral butterfly

A sprinkling of a Summer’s Day

one good school chum

a pinch of glistening sun.

A mile of sea-side

A dose of the sound of the sea

A glass of the sound of laughter

A handful of colourful clothes

A few clouds

Lots of sunshine

1 oz of the smell of sea and fish ‘n’ chips

Method

Prepare the bird’s song.

Pour into a bowl the 1lb of sweet bird’s song, preferably from a black bird. Add one dozen blossoming trees, stir in gently a spoonful of red-admiral butterfly.  Add one good school chum full of fond memories, for good measure.  Measure a tranquil sprinkle of Summer’s day.

Next, prepare a long, gentle mile of sea-side, tip in a pinch of glistening sun. Brush in a dose of the sound of the sea. Pour in a large glass of the sound of laughter.  Stir in a handful of colourful clothes.  And for good measure a few, fluffy clouds. Stir in lots of sunshine. Finally add an ounce of the smell of the sea and fish and chips.

Boil on a moderate heat for an hour.

Will Nuttall

Ingredients

Bike

Blue sky

Home-made pie

Tender love and care

Summer Rain

Favourite colour

poems and paintings

Pennies

Red roses

Method

A whizz on a bike
A dip in the clear blue sky
A cut of fine (homemade!) pie
A slice of love and tender care
A mixture of friendly dogs barking “Hello!”
A sprinkle of summer rain to rejuvenate the soul
A coating of my favourite colour
Divide up all my poems, paintings and spare pennies,
Throw them into the mixture, let them stew and sing for good fortune
Mix in half a dozen red roses
Split up some songs, cut up the chorus, and deep-fry the bass-line
A sprig of cherished memories, a surreal kind of resonation,
Then tuck in.

Liam Michael Hunt

Preparation

Simmer a liberal quantity of Spring
Bring to the boil a pint of morning dew
Whisk in an ounce of fresh mown grass
Take a spoonful of green and a slice of yellow then mix to a paste
Pour a jar of sunshine into a bowl along with a cupful of light rain – heat until warm
Fold a small amount of wooded trees into a pound of meadow land
Crumble a cube of Tchaikowsky into a pint of Debussy – whisk to a smooth gravy
Take a slice of a friendly face and an ounce of a pretty girl – stir to taste
Add a copious amount of warm breeze to a snap of sunshine – stand until ready to serve.

Mabbo

‘Satisfaction’

Finely slice a bedtime story with my little boy and fry with a dollop of playing in the park
Add a pinch of a good days work and stir in a girly weekend
Season with singing out loud (lady gaga if you have it) and serve with a freshly prepared boogie!

Zeph Curwen

 ‘Blissful’

Ingredients

A dizzy of rippling sunshine through trees
An extravagant indulgence of warm cat applied to the chest on a wet, cold afternoon
A dappling of the song of a robin and the sound of a babbling brook
A long morning’s brisk walk along a cliff-top
A seduction of blowsy herbaceous borders freckled with raindrops
A scandal of new-bought clothes

Method

Marinade in a bowl of pleasant anticipation until richly flavoured with delight.
Spread thickly over a long weekend, garnish with a comfort of sister and enjoy with a relish of husband.

Wendy Teall

‘Warm’

Ingredients

A particle of worms and slugs for breakfast
A whisper and nibble of children’s TV
A good dollop of story-time
A tablespoon of the creature of the black lagoon under the bed
A tall glass of innocence

Method

Blend all the ingredients in a dish, and top with a toasted giggle. Whizz in an echo of learning to walk and serve with a warmed up game of hide and seek. Scatter around the house.

T.Cole

 ‘Inspired,’

Ingredients

A carafe of inspiration and ideas

An Ocean full of shimmering moonlight

An acre of lush Spring flowers in bloom.

The sound of children’s laughter at play.

The zest of Mediterranean sunrise

A jar of a lazy Sunday morning in bed

Method

Take the barrel of laughter. Pour in the inspiration and ideas.  Whisk in the moonlight. Leave to rise under the Mediterranean Sunrise. Griddle in olive oil and garlic. Serve with fresh thoughts of a journey to happiness.

Paul James

‘Strong’

Ingredients

A Sunday full of warm, tasty veggie breakfast

A week filled with slow, peaceful Summer gardening

Explosive seconds of bright Camden scents

A sitting of Taekwondo patterns

Method

Mix Sunday with gardening in the explosive melting pot of Camden Town, with a sizzling breakfast.  Fold in the taekwondo. At this stage, you may feel confident and strong. Leave the mixture to rest whilst practising some stretching and relaxation.

Bake for an hour and a half on a Tuesday or Thursday evening and serve every week for a good mood.

LW

‘Pride’

Ingredients

Several yards of fur fabric

A few spools of thread

A generous mug of vanilla latte

A scoop of shopping

A cacophony of Urban excitement

A seasoning of encouragement

A droplet of individuality

Method

On an old sewing machine combine the fur and the thread with individuality, into a suit made for clowning around in.  Pour in a rich intense coffee.  Stir in a scoop of sizzling shopping.  Briskly boil in a bustling city.  Season with encouragement for a rewarding dish of discovery and accomplishment. Serve with warm weather and bright sunshine. Best enjoyed with a few friends all year round.

Tony Al-Naqib

Ingredients

glamour of colours

quarters of Art

Laughter

Country Grass

A jar of moos

shampoo

Method

A glamour of cobalt blue azure green and dashing red, put them in pinch by pinch, stir and see the colours shine and sparkle. Take art from your heavenly canvas, add by quarters and pounds, let it boil like a freshly grown star. Memories of laughs with a funny friend, slices of smiles and dollops of giggles. This stew will sing a perfect picture. Grass from pure country fields, ass it ounce by ounce, stir in jars of moos from cows, leave to boil. Finally add the shampoo you used to get rid of your dreadlocks. Pour it onto the pan from each jar you stored. Let it tickle in to add substance to the sauce.

Liam Michael Hunt