Wishing you all sweet holiday blessings! And a little something sweet … Left to my own devices near the holidays, I tend to get down, pretty much immersed in chocolate. And I’d love to share this recipe with you. Kahlua Dark Chocolate Truffles with Black Onyx Sugar and Coffee Beans Makes about 27 3/4 inch…
Category: Dessert Recipes
Peach and Lavender Semifreddo with Elderberry Swirl
Summer = peaches. It’s that glorious time of the year. And oh man … …my first ever semifreddo (kind of a cross between ice cream and gelato) turned out so deliciously well … as you can see … This twist on a traditional Italian recipe celebrates classic dairy ingredients, plus, (*Colorado peaches*) and foraged elderberries,…
“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,…
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…
Eat Local Challenge : Foraged Fruit Poached Pears with Lemon Verbena Creme Anglaise
What a delight to combine these lovely Ela Family Farms pears with sour Montmorency cherries, elderberries, dried Stanley plums and local honey in a poaching syrup that is rosy and inviting! And then, infuse dried lemon verbena from my own garden this summer – in raw cow’s milk from Taft Hill Dairy, thicken the custard…
Day 4 : Eat Local Challenge : Pumpkin Flan with Honey Caramel and Salted Pumpkin Seeds
No way to resist – at least for me – this light and lovely pumpkin flan! It goes down easy, very willingly! after a spicy meal. I’m on a 3 week Eat Local Challenge via Slow Food International, and this dessert featured on Day Four night in my kitchen. All who are on the…
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…
Solstice Leaning Winter Party – with a recipe for Chipotle Orange Chocolate Truffles
One of the best parts about this season is my heart annually itches to throw a party. To celebrate the Light that we are, in midst of this time of greatest darkness of the year. Can you believe I am still catching up with posts I began last year? Yes, these glorious truffles were made…
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,…
Double Coconut Chocolate Brownies on a Perfect Fall Day
Now I truly don’t know which is better. These double coconut chocolate brownies, or this perfect fall day. I’ll let you decide. Go on. Sit yourself down and try one. There’s coffee, too, dark Italian roast from Steaming Bean out of Telluride. In French Limoges Haviland third generation china cups, on the old front porch….
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