Sweet summertime.... Peach Blackberry Cobbler with a Coconut Cream Biscuit Crust. Get your spoons ready!!!
Vegan Summer Fruit Tart with Lavender
Slowing down and savoring late summer (or trying too) with this summer fruit tart with local apricots and nectarines, wild foraged blackberries and garden lavender...
Spicy Bread and Butter Pickles
We're big pickle eaters over here, and love a good stack of bread n' butter chips with our sammies. I developed this spicy version with dill becasue we like it spicy over here too...
Creamy Pea Pesto | Vegan & Gluten Free
We harvested the last of the spring peas today! So we had to make something delicious with them... This creamy pea pesto sauce was a perfect finale....
Peas and Peaches Salad with Peach Fennel Vinaigrette
The pea teepee in our garden is prolific these days, loaded with long green pods bursting with the sweetest peas. Each day Iley makes his way to the teepee and pops a few pea pods off, carefully opening each green purse and removing each sweet pea one by one, popping them into his mouth. Iley's peas. Gardening with children is such a joy. Seeing and exploring the garden through their eyes, it becomes a jungle or enchanted fairy land full of nature's gifts...
Strawberry Icebox Pie | Vegan
Mister and I have made a summer resolution to rise extra early and get out of the house. Our first day of practicing this resolution was to go strawberry picking as soon as the farm opened up. There's only so much time left for these sweet summer babies. We froze some for smoothies, ate a whole bunch out of hand, and used the rest in this scrumptious pie. I love this no-bake filling because you taste the freshness of the just picked berries. It's heavenly with coconut ice cream, which I made, but was not ready at camera time.
Lilac Flower Water
I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree – Leonard Cohen
My love affair with flowers reaches well beyond the garden or vase and onto my plate. I love flowers for their beauty, yes, and for their purpose of attracting pollinators to our garden, yes, but when they also nourish our bodies, all the better. I’ve been seeking out blooms of the edible variety to grow in our garden for years now. And to my delight I’ve discovered that the lilacs trees that were already growing in the yard are edible.