Lawdy be! Gluten-free’s gone crazy on this one. This has to be my favorite gluten-free dessert recipe yet. It is one tasty, moist, flavorful, AND easy to make cake. So, while everyone is snorting refined sugar and artificial food colorings this Christmas…take a sweet stand and bake this as an act of kitchen counter-culture. Be … Continue reading
Winter Warmth: Chicken Bone Broth
Key themes for winter: * stillness * storage * retreat * restoration * receptivity * kidneys * adrenals * cooked foods * bone broths * spices * roots * soups & stews * warming foods * immune support * nourishing * “For many of us, our interest in seasonality is somewhat selective. We want the … Continue reading
White Clover Pudding: A Recipe for Comfort & Healing
***Such a sweet lil’ recipe from Gather, that I wanted to share here on my blog. I like that it is a restored pioneer recipe using powdered gelatin, a very nourishing food (think joint repair and health as well as gut repair).*** Little did I know when I first came across an old pioneer recipe … Continue reading
Black Bean Brownies (GF, DF)
I’ve been asked by friends to post this recipe. It is one of two easy-peezy, nutritive, and delicious desert recipes that I like to make. Why are they so easy? I do the magic in a blender. Over the past 10 years or so, due to digestive complaints, I’ve navigated various food ways to find … Continue reading
Eggstatically Alioli
My recent addition to the kitchen is Spanish alioli (what the French call aïoli and what we may want to call garlic mayonnaise in English). Ah. But don’t call it garlic mayonnaise. I got the stinkiest of stink eyes from my Spanish friend when I did that. I must say. Where has this condiment been … Continue reading
The Potency of the Egg: A Tale of Easter Renewal
I, unknowingly, already began my Easter egg hunt. A wild goose chase? Well. I didn’t intend on it. I found a lone Canada goose egg along the pond’s edge while harvesting some plants yesterday for the apothecary. I tucked it back into the pine straw and hoped mom was coming back. Finding this “wild egg” … Continue reading
All Creatures Return Home
“Every creature on earth returns to home. It is ironic that we have made wildlife refuges for ibis, pelican, egret, wolf, crane, deer, mouse, moose, and bear, but not for ourselves in the places where we live day after day. We understand that the loss of habitat is the most disastrous event that can occur … Continue reading
Imbolc, Liver Health, Glutathione, and the River
With the many rites of the coming spring in full force (Imbolc, Lunar New Year, Groundhog Day, Candlemas, etc), the warmer weather has me feeling…not only revivified…but also thinking, carefully, about where my energy goes as we enter this new cycle. Just like a archer aiming her arrow, I think about what I want this … Continue reading
Hawk Moth and Moundville
This is my attempt at drawing the “hawk moth” (or sphinx moth, hornworm) depicted on a disc from the mounds at Moundville, AL. I really like the simplistic, and yet, imaginative stretch that created this drawing. These mounds, said to have been built around the 1300s, were of the Mississippian culture. There have been quite … Continue reading
Women: Reclaiming Our Natural Rhythms
“The major challenge for women is that we have knotted ourselves so firmly into the awkward, rhythmless, dissonant, societal system that we can barely breathe — much less think of breaking free from it.” ~ Maya Tiwari in “Women’s Power to Heal” Women. We feel something is missing. Some of us are shut-down around what … Continue reading
