exclusively Skirt in the Kitchen I'm making a heavy pot of meatless Pumpkin Red Tomato Chili to welcome in the season. I might roast some pumpkin seeds while I'm at it. … [Read more...]
Removing Fear and Doubt
exclusively Skirt in the Kitchen It's the white elephant in the room. It's visible, but people choose to ignore it. They'd like to put a paper bag over its head. It's debilitating. It keeps a person immobile. It can be costly. It's almost always affective. It's everything but positive. It stifles the will, suffers the soul. It's called, 'fear', and it leads to … [Read more...]
Green Tomato Spaghetti
exclusively Skirt in the Kitchen Green tomatoes give a dish a slight tartness, but with added ingredients and seasonings, it's a delicious and healthy way of eating. … [Read more...]
Don Juan Angel Cake
exclusively Skirt in the Kitchen This Don Juan Angel Cake is an angel food cake made and baked with real pesticide-free/organic Don Juan red climbing roses, in the batter and in the frosting. No trace of vanilla extract is added, only the scent and flavor of the natural roses in simple syrup. … [Read more...]
Love Is Alive
Fall corn and goldenrod Love Is Alive by Gary Wright … [Read more...]
SOMETHING IN RED
red temporary tattoos … [Read more...]
Biltmore Green Tomato Jam
adapted from FN I'm head-over-hills in love with my heirloom tomatoes, green and red, especially the ones that can fill my entire hand like a beef-size daddy-mac! For these, the larger the better. They know where their bread and butter is, they know who feeds them... Is it frisky double-romance with these guys?-You bet your caboodle! … [Read more...]
Bean Tortilla Taco
exclusively Skirt in the Kitchen This is a French-Mexican dish, 'Fushion Cooking'-confusion cooking. It is accentuated with edible organic sweet-scented roses. It's a Bean Tortilla Taco, like flavored refried beans put onto a soft tortilla that is toasted, then folded up to hold in hand and have just like a taco. It gives it a unique and delicious taste, everything in this … [Read more...]
Seasons Change
exclusively Skirt in the Kitchen These are moments. They are leaving us. The seasons want to change again, like people. They want to be fickle. One moment, they wish to hear the birds flutter through tree limbs; the next, the seasons long for summer sun, bright and gold. Then it's time to go into rest, let the days get shorter. Eventually, the seasons change to winter … [Read more...]
Tomato Jam with Cosmos Muffins
Tomato Jam with Cosmos Muffins, exclusively Skirt in the Kitchen I cannot imagine summer rolling into fall without tomatoes, and I can't imagine not making a batch of tomato cinnamon jam with Cosmos muffins before it gets October! It might be the last thing I put off doing, squeezing time for these fruits referred to as vegetables last minute to put up in jars before the … [Read more...]