For starters, may I include this fabulous allium? She is surely an onion I have loved. Along with the whole onion family – the reds, whites, yellows, the Walla-Wallas! The leeks and shallots, scallions and boilers and pearls….spring onions…chives. The garlic…. I began this post long months ago, last year in the spring, with a different…
Author: Margaret Gilfoyle
Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Beginnings
Bee – ginnings. Pollination. Plants. Food. Life. We need bees, truly, for new beginnings. In the circle of life, they are key. Blessings to the bees – please support them. Greenpeace Petition to save the honeybees
Favorite Photographs of the Year
Memories of 2013 from Pachamama’s Beautiful Food archives…from Paonia to Ft. Collins, Colorado. Thank goodness for gardens! Out of the thousands of photos I took, I hope you enjoy these mementoes. Click on the first image to view as a slideshow. I’m beginning to more earnestly focus on the Pachamama’s cookbook, going through recipes, gleaning…
God is in the Details ~ and the Christmas Pears
God – Goddess – Creator – Holy Spirit – Allah – Universal Light – is definitely in the details. However you perceive the life force, the movement of this un-nameable essence flows throughout everything. I pray we are moving towards that time when we realize we are all believing in the same thing. And let go of the…
I Lit a Candle This Morning for Yesterday – and ended up Baking Cookies
Originally posted on One Heart World ~ with Margaret Gilfoyle:
As I lit a candle this morning, it felt I was lighting it for yesterday. For a realization that came. Where my heart floated graciously in acceptance of what was right before me, and I let go of what was not. I quietly rejoiced in that…
Lemon Verbena Shortbread
Doesn’t the smell of lemon verbena make you just swoon with delight?! This summer our plant in the garden grew by leaps and bounds, and I would literally stick my face in it, rub my fingers in the leaves and breathe in the scent in deep, luxurious breaths. When I traveled to Ecuador in the…
Cabernet Chocolate Truffles
Luscious, incredible, creamy, ecstasy invoking truffles… Flavored lovingly with one of the most intoxicating fragrances – the zested clementine… – and a good splash of Cabernet, simmered down to virtually a syrup, deepening the truffles with rich, concentrated, elusive mmmm. Having a little sip of wine as the afternoon rolled into evening, I could not resist making these…
Leek Gratin with Asiago Jarlsberg Mornay Sauce
Late fall and winter actually become easier to bear when it’s finally snowing, and just beautiful to be outside! What eases the early darkness of this season even more for me is, coming back indoors, watching a fire in the fireplace, and – let’s face it – the amazing foods of the season! Freshly pulled leeks are…
The Revelation of Home-made Oat Milk
A few days ago, I ran out of my customary carton of almond milk, early in the morning. A gray, blustery fall day. My breakfast appetite was yearning for oatmeal and honey, but without milk, hmmm! What to do? My answer to this question has created a revelation in my kitchen. Home made oat milk….
Grilled Zucchini Parmesan with Roast Tomato, Smoked Paprika and Basil Marinara
Lovely zucchini. It hasn’t been long since we were all peering beneath your huge leaves, pushing them this way and that, not wanting to miss the zukes of proper proportions, so we would not be, a day or two later, harboring a giant – you know – a Zucchini of Unusual Size. Very Fresh zucchinis…
The Celestial Crepe
O! To the Yin and Yang of life! To these delicious GF crepes! Upon a closer look of this kitchen creation, a deep understanding of stars, orbits and all kinds of celestial goings on takes place when you behold. Do you doubt?! Look! True amazement in a humble crepe! I made just one yin yang crepe (the tail ends of…
Strolling California … Lovely Markets and Other Treasures
Just home from a fantastic trip to San Francisco, Point Reyes, Stinson Beach, Napa and Sonoma deserves a small photo tribute, while I slowly return to life in Colorado … doing my best but still nearly speechless! (click on the first photo if you’d like a slideshow view) Of course, I am managing to savor luscious…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside
Peeling back husks from the very first heirloom Glass Gem ear of corn out of the garden revealed THIS inside: Treasure.
The First Magical Ear
I am so grateful to everyone with passion. For it is passion that makes life such a rich amazement. “Carl Barnes, a part-Cherokee farmer living in Oklahoma had an uncanny knack for corn breeding. More specifically, he excelled at selecting and saving seed from those cobs that exhibited vivid, translucent colors. Exactly how long Barnes…
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