Nearly blocked off from town by closed-due-to-the-flood highways, my pioneer spirit from a past life kicked in, high gear. So grateful we are not in the immediate path of high waters, it felt like a just right day to make chili with what was on hand. Grateful for the garden – for zucchini, and jalapenos….
Author: Margaret Gilfoyle
Curry Pickles of Joy
Crunchy and absolutely delicious, these are the curry pickles of summer. Yes, these may be the pickles of your dreams. For one thing, if you grow salad style cucumbers, (we have a “burp-less” variety) and your vines are doing VERY WELL this season like ours are, you may at this point of the season have…
Jumping In – To the New Garden, and a Triple Herb, Aged Sherry Vinegar Sour Cream Dip
Well, not literally (into the dip), but yes, I’m jumping in! With diminishing sadness, leaving my Paonia garden behind – because the new place is such a joy! I added my little terra cotta hummingbird heart onto the barn board fence beneath my friend’s plaque, to offer up some company! With dill exploding like small fireworks all over one raised…
A Swirl, a Stack, a Plateful of Memories! or “I Love My Home, Planet Earth”
The bonds of friends live on in our hearts – sometimes, especially when we also have a memory of those last foods we prepared or shared together. Today I came across a bright sheaf of photos from the week before I moved from the North Fork Valley. Living to CELEBRATE WHAT IS – I simply…
The Versatile Ear: Raw Thai Style Corn Salad, Corn and Feta Stuffed Poblano Peppers + Roast Serrano, Organic Sweet Corn and Heirloom Potato Chowder
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Fresh sweet corn. Butter. Salt. Iowa born and raised. Summers at the lake in upstate New York. Corn is in my blood. organic bi-color Luscious sweet corn fresh from the garden in the boil I love corn on the cob! What a sign of summer! As young girls, my…
Haiku for a Melon
Grow mightily sweet in these dog days of summer, dream big, wee melon!
The Refuge of a Pumpkin Flower
When the beauty one encounters is so vast it defies description, I wonder if my heart, beaming strongly through these words is enough to portray why witnessing the refuge of a pumpkin flower awakened me?
Chocolate Plum Buckle with Honey Whipped Cream
Oh, my my. Feeling decadent and rich with a sack full of fragrant plums, I decided to experiment the other night. Chocolate and spice and everything nice – gluten free, dreamy…. Summer is the time when you particularly get to choose to bake – or if you are attending family reunions, perhaps get to partake – of…
Primal Urges – A Storm Filled Evening Plus Lentil and Yam Soup with Nutmeg, Smoked Paprika and Lemon Thyme
My new life has a cottagey feel – a rich bonanza, these current summer days of thunder and storm, lush views of the rain-drenched gardens this next morning, with more gray promise in the skies. Eyes on the trees all around me – pine, walnut, cottonwood – sensing the calm lake surface just beyond. These fresh days in…
Overwhelmed with Joy
My last post seems eons ago…. and I’m writing this from a new home, across the state of Colorado, in a new state of mind! There is so much to say, and how, how can I catch up, with the day to day happenings – the details of the garden, food relished and the light,…
Itsy Bitsy Spiders
Change is beginning to charge pretty unmistakably through my life! On June 30, one entire year since I began this blog with an incredible garden by my side, I will be moving away from the North Fork Valley. I have so many feelings, thoughts, words. And then – choose it to be love. Just love….
A Grilled Spaghetti Squash, with Fresh Pulled Ramps! Tuscany Style Influenced-by-Paul-Newman Dinner
It’s a precious time, really, to spend an evening relaxing, laughing and cooking with family, especially when they have a nice balcony, great grill, enthusiastic epicurean appetites, and a little wine to share…along with pleasant breezes and a long weekend. With the garden just beginning to pop, my contribution was a thick handful of ramps, two varieties of…
Asparagus Fever! Two Toned Frittata and a Red Potato Smoked Oyster Salad
Two streamlined recipes to make the very most of a star spring vegetable: 1. Two Toned: Asparagus Frittata with Uncured Turkey Bacon, Romano Cheese and Chives 2. Red Potato, Asparagus and Smoked Oyster Salad with Sharp White Cheddar and Lemon Zest Let’s get right to it – for a fine brunch dish with great eye…
Mother’s Day Love: Or How to Eat Orange Olive Oil Cake with Fennel Sugar and Lingonberry Marmalatta
When you have an awesome, generous, thoughtful son and daughter-in-law combo like I, who live in the foodie paradise of Denver, Colorado, Mother’s Day Brunch becomes an exciting preparatory event whose journey is every bit as fun as the goal. Should we go to Rioja, Best Restaurant in Denver, whose chef Jennifer Jasinski just took the James Beard…
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