Our Meals 

Every dish we make is chosen with one question in mind: does this actually help someone recovering from birth? That means warm over cold, slow-cooked over rushed, and real ingredients that quietly deliver the iron, protein, and omega-3s your body is asking for in these weeks, alongside food that simply tastes like something worth eating.

Our menu rotates weekly rather than offering a fixed selection, drawing on postpartum food traditions from Ayurvedic India, China, Korea, and Japan, through Southern Europe (Greece, Italy) and Eastern Europe, to North Africa - dishes that have fed new mothers for generations, long before "postpartum nutrition" was a phrase anyone needed to use. We didn't invent any of this. We just gathered it, cooked it properly, and brought it to your door.

The Foundation: Bone Broth

Bone broth is the foundation of nearly everything we make, and it's not here because it's trending. Kitchens have been simmering bones down into broth for thousands of years, first out of necessity, then out of habit, then because someone noticed it made people feel better. Chinese medicine has used it for well over two thousand years to ease digestion and, in its own language, to strengthen the body from the inside. Around the same era, Hippocrates was recommending similar broths in ancient Greece.

The postpartum thread runs just as far back and just as wide: In Traditional Chinese Medicine, it has been used for millennia to ease digestion and rebuild strength. In Korea, a new mother’s first meal is often miyeok-guk (seaweed soup) built on beef bone broth. In Mexico, it’s a long-simmered chicken soup with cilantro and warm spices. Different cultures, same instinct: something warm, simmered slowly by someone else, handed to someone who has just brought life into the world.

We follow that same instinct. Every soup, rice, and mash on our menu is cooked in our own house-made bone broth instead of plain water. It adds deep flavor, warmth, hydration, and a quiet boost of natural protein and minerals to almost every dish. (Curious about the fuller picture on bone broth and postpartum recovery? We go into more depth in What to Eat After Birth.

Broths & soups

Are deeply comforting, easy to hold down on the days your appetite is smallest.

• Minced Beef and Potato Soup. Is a humble, warming bowl built on minced beef, a steady source of iron and protein in the weeks your body is replenishing both, and soft potato for easy, comforting carbohydrates.
• Vegetable Soup. Is our lighter, vegetable-forward bowl for the days you want something simple and gentle.
• Avgolemono (Greek Egg and Lemon Chicken Soup). A traditional Greek soup from the same lineage of postpartum care food that's fed new mothers across the Mediterranean for generations, thickened with egg and brightened with lemon: protein-rich, gently warming, and a nice change from a plain bowl of broth.

Slow-cooked stews & mains

Substantial plates for the evenings you want dinner to feel like a real meal, not an afterthought.

• Nonna's Homemade Meatballs with Polenta. An Italian family recipe, slow-cooked, tender meatballs over soft polenta, a proper, protein-forward plate for the evenings when you want something that feels like a real meal.
• Slow-Cooked Beef Stew with Mash Potato. Beef simmered until it falls apart, served over mash made with our bone broth instead of plain water: iron, protein, and carbohydrates in one unhurried dish.
• White & Butter Bean Stew with Salmon or White Fish and Soft Sourdough Bread. A stew built on beans, a good source of fiber and plant protein, alongside salmon or white fish, with soft sourdough for the rest of the bowl.

Grounded in Traditional Mains (Rice, Congee & Kitchari)

Timeless recovery dishes crafted for gentle digestion and deep comfort.

Congee, rice simmered low and slow until it breaks down into something soft and creamy, has fed new mothers across China, Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia for centuries. In Chinese confinement tradition, zuo yue zi, "sitting the month," a structured 30- to 40-day postpartum recovery period, congee is often the very first meal handed to a new mother, precisely because it asks almost nothing of a body that's still healing. We cook ours the same slow way, in our own bone broth instead of water, and build two versions around it.

• Sesame Chicken Congee. Soft rice porridge folded with tender chicken and a warm hit of sesame, closer to the savory, protein-built congee traditionally served during confinement than the plain white porridge most people picture.
• Fish Congee with Salmon. A seafood congee, in the same tradition as the fish and seafood varieties served during Chinese confinement, gentle on digestion and carrying the added benefit of salmon's protein and omega-3s.
• Kitchari with Rice, Lentils, and Vegetables. An Ayurvedic dish built on rice and lentils, gently spiced and simmered until soft, with vegetables folded through. In Ayurveda, the postpartum body is considered to be in a heightened vata state, prone to feeling cold, depleted, and unsettled, and kitchari's warmth and simplicity are considered especially calming and easy on digestion. It's one of Ayurvedic medicine's most foundational postpartum dishes, and one of the gentlest things on this menu.

Fish-forward plates

Built around fish for the DHA your body and, if you're breastfeeding, your baby are both drawing on heavily right now.

• Salmon with Soft Herb Orzo and Soft Zucchini. Salmon is one of the better food sources of DHA, the omega-3 that matters for your postpartum brain, and your baby's too, if you're breastfeeding, served here with herb orzo and soft-cooked zucchini.
• Halibut with Soft Courgette, Cooked Leek, Peas, Roasted Beetroot, and a Warm Butter Egg Sauce, with Cooked Potato. A fuller plate built around halibut, another good source of omega-3s, with soft-cooked vegetables and a warm butter egg sauce.

What this actually does for you

• Iron and protein, in nearly every bowl, to help rebuild what birth asks your body to give up. Exactly how much you need and why is covered in full, with sources, in The Nutrients You Actually Need After Birth.
• Omega-3s (DHA), concentrated in our fish-forward plates, to support your postpartum brain and, if you're breastfeeding, your baby's developing one. Read more about the nutrients here. 
• Warm, slow-cooked, easy-to-digest food, in place of anything raw or cold, for a digestive system that's often more delicate than usual in these early weeks.

We're not going to promise any single bowl will "heal" you faster. What we can say is that every dish is built around what the research actually points to, not what's trending.

With Care,

Audrey

This is a taste of what a week with us might look like, not a menu to choose from; our bundles are curated rather than à la carte, so you get a rotating mix of the above rather than picking dish by dish.