damian.gardynik

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24/04/2026

I’ll be honest.

Sometimes this whole thing feels weird.

Posting food, filming recipes, promoting retreats, selling courses, trying to stay visible, trying to keep the business alive, trying to be “inspiring” all the time.

Sometimes it feels real.

And sometimes it feels like overcompensating.

Sometimes it feels like I’m sharing something good and useful.

And sometimes it feels like I’m performing healing before I’ve fully lived it.

Sometimes even the retreats feel like that too.

They are beautiful. They are real. People do connect, learn, open up, eat well, and leave changed. I know that.

But I also know myself.

I know how easily good things can become an escape. A mask. A way to prove something. A way to avoid the quieter, harder work underneath.

And I don’t want to pretend I’m above that.

I do love this work.

I love cooking for people.
I love teaching.
I love creating beautiful food.
I love seeing people remember what nourishment can feel like.

But I’m also trying to do it with more honesty now.

Less pretending.
Less pressure to look perfectly aligned.
Less content for the sake of content.
Less hiding behind the thing I’m good at.

So if you’re still here, and this still resonates with you, thank you.

And if you still vibe with what I share, I’d love to invite you into it more deeply.

You can join one of my retreats, or support my work through one of my digital books, courses, or recipes.

Not because I have it all figured out.

But because I’m still walking this path too.

And whatever is real in it, I still want to share.

26 plant based cheeses ready for culturing for the upcoming Chef Training Retreats 🙌🧀 Made with different types of nuts ...
23/04/2026

26 plant based cheeses ready for culturing for the upcoming Chef Training Retreats 🙌🧀

Made with different types of nuts and seeds, and different kinds of fermentations.

On the 2nd picture:

Bottom right: cashew-almond lactofermented, plain cheese
Middle right: camembert/brie, with almond milk curdled with fig leaf latex
Plastic containers: roquefort, with macadamia-cashew
Bottom left: cashew-pumpkin seed, lactofermented

Just some amazing flavors are developing for 5-8 weeks. The mold-fermented ones are just amazing, roquefort-like, and brie-like cheeses that will develop a beautiful blue and white bloom of mold soon enough in a controlled humidity and temperature.

Can't wait to share these beauties with the students at the Chef Training, and teach them how to make them at home. 😍🙌

Last spot for the Chef Training Retreat in June 5th to 14th in Málaga, Spain is available! DM me RETREAT to sign up!

13/04/2026

You ever catch yourself thinking about food way more than you should?

Not cooking. Not enjoying it. Just… managing it.

What to eat. What to avoid.
If this fits. If that’s “allowed”.

Feeling good when you get it right, slightly off when you don’t.

From the outside it looks like discipline.
But it’s a bit exhausting, if you’re honest.

I’ve been on both sides of that.
Losing weight, feeling on top of things, locked in.
Then pushing it too far, losing balance, and watching it swing back the other way.

Years of using food for comfort, distraction, control… it catches up with you.
And it leaves you a bit disconnected from something that should be simple.

I’m not really interested in that anymore.

Not in overthinking every meal, or needing food to follow a system just to feel in control.

Lately it’s been more about keeping things simple, grounded, actually enjoyable again.

“Do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink…” — Gospel of Matthew 6:25

Still care about what I eat. Just trusting in that Divine Providence in everything.

Just without it taking up so much space in my head.
If you know, you know.

31/03/2026

Comment CHEF for the details for May and June 2026!

The creations of our students from the 2025 Chef Trainings!

They're so beautiful and vibrant in color and nutrients! 😍

What a privilege to be able to work with such produce. Málaga is something else.

Chef Trainings 2026 are almost full! Just a couple of spaces left for the May and June editions!

Comment CHEF if you want all the details and sign up!

23/03/2026

Comment CHEF to get all the info!

The very last spots for May and June this year!

A 10 day experience, cooking, discovering tons of ingredients, plant based cooking techniques, raw vegan techniques, fun, sun, and great people!

Comment CHEF if you want to join us!

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