Peaches sitting on the lea Brightly shining merrily Ripe and fresh picked off the tree Stone fruit summer fantasy Eat them with some hot brewed tea Bake with cobblers, pies, and ghee Make into a jubilee Or better yet go wild and free With a cream and biscuits spree Splash syrup there for all to…
Valentine’s Day Pomegranate Cookies (paleo, AIP, vegan)
Roses are red Violets are blue Of course I must alter This poem for you Valentine’s Day Comes once a year Drinking and dining Our theme is good cheer Who cares if you’re single? Fear not love is blind We’re all human creatures Part of the hive mind Thus love exists truly For one and…
Caramelized Pears with Pomegranate (paleo, AIP, vegan)
Burnished and sweet with a glistening sheen Joyfully neat until heat melts the cream Evoking treats much more rich and unclean Lightly toasted, Carefully roasted, Lovingly hosted, Never composted By Julie and her team Buttery, caramelized Pears with ice cream. Caramelized Pears (paleo, AIP, vegan) Save Print Prep time 10 mins Cook time 10…
Apple Pie Gummies (paleo, AIP)
Snow White woke in a daze, peering through befuddled eyes at the seven friendly, eyebrow-dominated faces of the stout figures leaning over her bed. “Woah!” She sat up with a jerk. The dwarves jumped back, Bashful emitting a loud peep of fright as Dopey’s hat fell onto the floor. “Where am I?” she asked. She…
Cranberry Scones (paleo, AIP)
Elizabeth, Peter, Mary, and Arnold stood around the banister of the great house, peering through the rails at Mrs. Guernsey and the other adult boarders congregated in the dining room for Christmas dinner. “You’d think they could have let us eat together,” said Peter, with a sniff. “At least we could have sat in the…
Gingerbread People (paleo, AIP, vegan)
Once upon a time, Ethel the gingerbread woman lived with her gingerbread husband, Lester, in a small gingerbread house on the outskirts of Ginger Village. In most gingerbread families, the husband took care of the baking and childrearing, and Ethel and Lester were no exception. While Ethel went off to the bakery each morning, Lester…
Snickerdoodles (paleo, AIP, vegan)
Far out in the Western Seas lies the island of Doldruminicks, or Land of the SnickerDoodlers, as it’s known in English. On this land lives a very peculiar creature – the snickerdoodler, pictured here. As you can see, snickerdoodlers are characterized by a rotund, bulbous body, a large round nose, and coarse, sand-paper-y skin. They…
Apple Cranberry Pie (paleo, AIP, vegan)
Apple orchards and hay rides Hot cider donuts Fresh cranberries from the farm market Scooped from wild bogs Playing catch with green apples Cottages in the dark Roast chicken and potatoes Scrabble and card games Ghost stories and dares Donning sweatshirts Feeling dark nights, cool stars The scent of wood smoke Soccer in a damp…
Fig Newtons (paleo, AIP, vegan)
Once upon a time three little pigs lived in a house made of straw, sticks, and reinforced concrete. They were very happy in their sturdy little home and regularly had the pot going over the fire to boil up tasty stews and veggies for their midday meals. One day in the middle of one such…
Hot Cocoa with Truffles / Marshmallows (paleo)
Hot cocoa bocolo bottle of rum Wandering willowing beating a drum Looking for pasties and cookies and crumbs Hot cocoa bocolo bottle of rum Hot chocolate boggle it sit around fire Toasting ‘mallows o’er it sugary pyres Melting dripping oozing wandering higher Hot chocolate boggle it sit around fire Turmeric matcha marshmallow magoo…
Matcha, Coconut, Cocoa Truffles (paleo, vegan)
Ruffles of truffles are trundling through Bundles of goodness and brown chocolate goo Dipped and replete with zest up the wazoo Green for matcha Coconut like laksa Cocoa powder for days Raspberry dusting for glaze And supernatural carob canapes This poem is mostly gibberish Is nearly 100% frivolous But that’s what happens when you eat…
Matcha Marshmallows (paleo)
The sounds of horse hooves echoed: ba doom ba doom. Ba doom ba doom. Like coconut shells, but a lot less funny. Thickets of wet leaves whipped past, shouts filled the burning forests, and she found herself slipping, thudding onto the hard ground, which gave way to a long, dark tunnel, the depths of which…
Blueberry ‘Cheese’cake Tart (paleo, AIP, vegan/dairy-free)
I’ll keep this one short A limerick say A story and rhyme that got lost on the way Or could it be A haiku perhaps Except for the rhythm which still seems to lapse And follow the flow of its bends and its turns And repeat at will until words run and churn Poems are…
