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: Breakfast recipes
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…
Day Three : Eat Local Challenge : Glass Gem Cornmeal Pancakes and Elderberry Honey Syrup
Launching into Day Three of the Eat Local Challenge and the breakfast I made has brought me the most joy so far on this three week (and probably beyond) ride! These sweet stacks of silver dollar pancakes began their history in 2013, when I grew the magical Glass Gem corn in our garden on the…
Day Two : Eat Local Challenge : Raw Milk Butter Making and Spaghetti Squash Alfredo
Day Two of my Eat Local Challenge! It began with a cup or two of that delicious locally roasted Columbian Peritus Coffee, then – a totally local vegetable frittata. Let me back up and just remind you that – for three weeks beginning October 16, I have taken the plunge to eat local foods for…
Saturday Snow + New Potato and Leek Frittata with Spicy Greens and Feta
My eyes drank in the sunrise, waking slowly on this snowy Saturday morning. Freezing cold and spectacular the colors glowed, making my heart quiver as I absorbed in all this beauty. I made some strong coffee and began assembling breakfast. A big, delicious frittata. **I want to share with you that on my birthday this…
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,…
Dark Chocolate and Date Oat Flour Muffins
I had gone long weeks without any sweets – other than apples, bananas and carrots – and that was grand. But I was ready to bite into a cakey, muffiny pleasure. I must confess, in all my gluten free days, I had never baked with oat flour. To be sure, unless the oats be gluten…
The Glorious Green Smoothie
So simple, so delicious. Variations – all with scrumptious kale, have been my “first breakfast” for several weeks. “Second breakfasts” are usually local eggs and potatoes, or home-made cornbread and honey, or, whim of the moment…. When I started out my green smoothie routine I was using kale still available from the garden – a sweet mix…
The April Fool’s Day Banana, along with a tasty recipe for Banana Jam
Long ago, in the cavern of time, when I was a young mom and my son was 8 or 9, there was the celebrating of every holiday together, and particular fun come April 1st. According to the scholarly words of Wikipedia: “April Fools’ Day (sometimes called All Fools’ Day) is an informal holiday celebrated every year on…
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….
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…
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…
Spring Crepes with Fresh Goat’s Milk Yogurt and Maple Sugared Violets
A sweet dessert to stun your loved ones with the fantastic fact that it is Spring… …started out like this, here’s the Girls giving some smooches… (take a visit to Rain Crow Farm in my herbed goat cheese au poivre post): …and then into the kitchen to make a batch of tangy, luscious goat’s milk yogurt….
Quadruple Coconut Chocolate Pancakes
Perfect for the weekend. Or a beautiful breakfast any day. When you have a little extra time to breathe…. These light, gluten free pancakes have a delicious quadruple dose of coconut: coconut flour – a high fiber, tender addition to the batter, coconut milk – luscious and pure, creamy coconut oil, plus flaked organic coconut…
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