Happy Spring!

3/30/2023

"It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart."
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

The kids loved foraging and preparing some delicious dishes for our Spring Equinox Celebration!

Here are some of our yummy recipes:

Dandelion Cookies

Ingredients:

1/4 cup coconut oil
1 egg
1/4 cup coconut sugar
2 Tbls maple syrup
2 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups blanched almond flour
2 Tbls coconut flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp sea salt
1-2 cups fresh dandelion petals

Preheat oven to 350 F
Mix melted coconut oil and egg until relatively smooth; add coconut sugar, maple syrup, and vanilla and blend until combined.
Add the flours, baking soda and salt and blend again. Make sure you've incorporated all those dry ingredients, especially the coconut flour.
Fold in dandelion flowers by hand.
Scoop onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet with a nice sized spoon. Press them down a bit to flatten them to 1/2 inch.
Bake 10 minutes or until browned around the edges.

Chickweed Salad & Pesto

Chickweed is abundant, tasty, super high in vitamins and minerals, and the kids love it!

These lovely plants grows wild all over the place! They found a nice home in the garden under our hoop rows.

For the salad we just drizzled a little olive oil and sprinkled a little salt, then garnished with dandelion blooms.

For our intuitive pesto we added a handful each of chickweed, basil, and walnuts to the vitamix then poured enough olive oil to cover the ingredients and a few pinches of salt.

The kids loved rolling the fresh basil to release more of it's lovely aroma and taste.

Sunflower Seed Butter and Elderberry Jelly Sandwiches

Dandelion Dance Performance

Check out the CG Facebook page for a video of the Dandelion Dance!

More Potluck Recipes!

So many parents expressed that this was one of the most delicious potlucks ever! Here are some links to some of the recipes we enjoyed:

Red Lentil Dhal

GF Olive Oil Cake with Lemon & Almond Flour

Pan-fried Chickpea Salad

Spiderman Waffles

Big hugs of gratitude to Mama Christy-Lynn who brought in all the supplies and materials to for the kids to make some super fun waffles!