Fresh sweet corn. Butter. Salt. Iowa born and raised. Summers at the lake in upstate New York. Corn is in my blood. I love corn on the cob! What a sign of summer! As young girls, my twin sister and I used to make observations about a person’s style of eating an ear of corn, sitting around the table with family,…
Category: Earth ~ Recipes for Vegetables
In this element Mother Earth cradles
her gifts with her body
Tomato Nasturtium Salad with Kalamata Olives
Home grown increases the flavor of a tomato by at least a 1000%. You don’t have to go far in a conversation to find folks who agree – it’s a well known fact. I’m growing quite a few varieties this year, and there are many more to try next season…beautiful colors, unusual heirlooms, from the huge Mortgage Lifter…
KIMCHI !! Making Korean Sauerkraut straight out of a Colorado garden
I’ve been doing some miles on my kitchen floor these days – August is that glorious crazy time when winter visions of this season’s garden are coming into wild, abundant fruition and there is plenty to pick, eat and preserve! I love kimchi and have been waiting all season for my cabbages to arrive at…
Garden Party!
Pachamama loves color! This bright wheel of steamed garden delights was simply drenched in fresh lemon, basil and dill vinaigrette and spun off to a garden party a couple of nights ago. This is my first post from the WordPress for iPhone app! So it will be short and sweet. My times in the kitchen…
Potatoes – Tomatoes; and an authentic Ecuadorian recipe from the Andean Highlands
I do have a reverence for the garden, which sustains me – with a love deep within my heart expanding into the earth. Digging potatoes is a marvelous treasure hunt, a reflection back out of the earth of all that love – and in gardens past, also a race against the wily and voracious wire worms. This year,…
The Pickle Chronicles
I planted 12 pickling cucumber starts around mid-May, and today picked the first mature cucumbers! YES. Where there are good spicy pickles, cold winter days are tolerable, and a grilled cheese sandwich elevates into heaven. There always seems to be an acclimating time after planting, before vegetables really take hold and begin to thrive. I spent…
Composed Beet and Spinach Salad with Goat Feta and Bing Cherry Balsamic Honeyed Dressing
Do try this simple salad – the flavors are excellent together….and full of empowering iron. I can visualize the same salad prepared with golden beets and the chubby yellow-rose Rainier cherries and will post for you if I can bring those things together. The spinach and these beets are from my garden, pulled as I…
Collard greens and andouille sausage with black eyed peas
For company last night, an impromptu delicious meal with collards and new potatoes from the garden. We started out with a glass of local Black Bridge Winery Chardonnay. These are my family’s heirloom crystal goblets. I remember family holiday dinners across the table from my twin sister Mary, tipping up these glasses as we’d drink our…
Pachamama's Beautiful Food 