Marmellata and Cakes

Working through a new cookbook ❤️ loving your salads as we start Lent

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Made good use of the new rain gauge my sister got me for Christmas. 6.5” in 4 days!

My favorite summer drink 🍋

Happy birthday Rocky 🐶 you make our 💕 happy with your cuddles and crazy antics!

A bike ride finished off with homemade pizza: prosciutto, fig, arugula and bruschetta. Figs and tomatoes from the garden and always homemade dough (garage was a great proofing oven!)

Note to self: invest in a grape press. Hands aren’t working like nonna’s 😕

A hot day so the BBQ made for a great oven to use up the plethora of plums literally dropping off our tree. A quick and easy dessert that paira well with a heaping scoop of vanilla bean ice cream

Someone has a birthday today! Their favorite, coconut with cream cheese frosting. I added lemon zest to the frosting to cut the sweetness. This cake is loaded with 🥥 flavor

Don’t throw away ripe bananas! They are longing to be something delightfully mouthwatering 🍌

Feels like spring! 🌷🌷🌷Dark dirt has prepped the beds for the veggies that have been started in the greenhouse. Onions and alio are thriving along with the orange tree (nothing like fresh squeezed juice! 🍊), plum and peach trees. Chickens have their first day out of the big house to scratch at all the goodies

This years breakfast treat, chocolate pull apart compliments of recipe. Just added a bit of our flare with chopped pecans and walnuts. Maybe a dollop of hazelnut spread???🎄😋

Glorious!

Baking day

Warm apple, persimmon pie with walnuts and cranberries. Now just need a dollop of egg nog gelato 🥰

A day of different breads from one b**a naturale; Pan Bigio, Pane di Como and ciabatta 🥖 loving the slight sourness of the first two. The whole wheat flour and the crumb of these breads, perfecto!

Tis the season! And our version of the mountains of Colorado represented in our vineyard

White bean chili with homemade ciabatta. I made a b**a this time to add to the ciabatta and WOW what a difference it made in the crumb. Nice outside crunch and a pillowy soft crumb inside, the perfect match for our chili on this brisk night after hanging Christmas lights.

Family night means Raclette night.

Butternut squash ravioli, pumpkin roulade, that’s a wrap on 2021 thanksgiving

Somebody couldn’t wait 😋 nothing says fall like an apple pie. But I couldn’t decide if it should have crumble or a top crust, so I did both 🥰 a delicious surprise just below the top crust 🍎🍎💕🍂🍁

The last zucchini is making a cold, windy day much more tolerable 😋

The hubby asked for his favorite snack, applesauce! 🍎 so of course I just had to 🥰

Privacy wall, plant display wall and a mini bar? Yes please 💕