If you’re from Iowa, you get it. In the summer, in the Midwest. Or anywhere else where local sweet corn can be bought by the bushel, then you sit out in the garage with your sister and shuck the ears for your mom, coming away with memories of dinner with platters of corn, slathered with…
Category: Baking
Spicy GF Gingerbread Cookies
This season for the second year in a row, I drove to a little town near the foothills to choose my holiday tree, cut up near Red Feather Lakes, thinning the forest there to help keep the trees healthy. Last year my tree was so happy it greened up over the weeks standing in its…
Lemon Basil Muffins with Ground Pistachios
It’s been a whirlwind of book publishing these last two months, and kitchen life has for the most part been pretty simple. Which has been great. Grilled cheese with tomatoes and basil from the garden. Blistered shishito pepper and garlic – from the garden – omelettes with red pasada and yukon gold home fries, you…
Grain free Gingerbread Layer Cake with Pumpkin Maple Mascarpone Frosting
I ALWAYS think I’m going to hold out on summer forever, and then – something happens… It may have something to do with pumpkins ripening – looking so earthy and appealing, and the Canadian geese honking overhead as chilly days commence. Whatever it is, gingery, spicy, pumpkin pleasures were on my mind as I conjured…
Mountain magic and a tasty recipe for four seed crackers – GF of course
Practically gone now, these golden gleams in dappled sun rippled through my heart a few weeks back. I was visiting the western slope of Colorado, where I once lived, and felt the irresistible pull to a few favorite places. Though many views could be soaked in most anywhere in the Rockies Here I was on…
“You put the Lime in the Coconut” Banana Bundt Cake
Summertime … calls for light and refreshing life … And this beautiful, tart/sweet cake can help! It’s gluten free of course… I wouldn’t have it any other way 🙂 I’ve been playing around – recipe development with bananas and cake and gluten free, whims and versions and revisions. This one is pretty close to perfect,…
The Donut Chronicles: grain free, gluten free, vegan + 3 delicious variations
It has been a heart jumping joy to be able to eat donuts again. I’ve been gluten free for 13 years now, and I think I’ve tried just one box of GF donuts in that time. So it’s been a long, long stretch of donut-less barren breakfasts, until a few months ago when I came…
GF Fresh Fennel Picnic Cake with Lemon Marscapone Frosting
Ah, the warm, green days of summer … I remember you well and am hankering for your return! I began this post in the explosion of that green and expansive energy, thrilled to have inherited a community garden plot with volunteer FENNEL sprouting up and maturing several plants plus an absolutely prodigious number of seeds….
Quinoa Flour Pumpkin & Chocolate Bread
I’ve been having a grand time testing this beautiful bread with different flour blends, and to me, this quinoa flour version creates the best: a fabulous, nutty bread with lovely, cake-like texture. The added bonus is grinding the quinoa flour myself, in my trusty coffee grinder. (I grind mine on the “fine” grind option, twice….
Eat Local Challenge : Honey Caramel Fried Pear and Elderberry Tart with Glass Gem Cornmeal Crust
Eat Local Challenge : October 31 : An inspiration of dessert desire and these ingredients led me to create this honey caramel fried pear and foraged elderberry tart with Glass Gem cornmeal crust – rustic! Local! Copoco’s local honey, Ela Family Farms pears, foraged elderberries from Fort Collins, I grew the beautiful Glass Gem corn…
Grain-free! The Perfect Almond Flour Bundt Cake
I have been so excited to finally, FINALLY bake with almond flour, and that moment actually arrived when I had the perfect occasion. My housewarming party. 🙂 I am loving my new environs, and couldn’t wait to celebrate and entertain a few friends. I was going all out in a smallish way, without a lot…
Lemon Cardamom Bundt Cakes and Last of the Year Treasures
No matter the trials, 2016 also has had many moments of beauty. Just a few days ago, I had the good fortune to be asked to house sit for friends who live in a sweet, big old farm house out in the country. This heart display, among many other things welcomed me. Remember to stop…
The First Snow + Deglet Noor Date and Toasted Almond Oatmeal Cookies
We have had such a glorious fall it has nearly felt like summer, but for the leaves cascading from the trees. Just a few days ago, the first snow of the season finally came to the Front Range of Colorado. In midst of all the other changes in our lives, this familiar sight seemed to…
Banana Muffins with Lavender and Fresh Ginger reading The Tijuana Book of the Dead
I began this post months ago, yet … banana muffins with lavender and fresh ginger sounded excellent on this slightly cooler, rainy-ish summer day. It’s the 4th anniversary of Pachamama’s Beautiful Food today, so why not celebrate with a second post. I have loved the gardens I shared with you in these past four years,…
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