goodbye July, hello Lughnasadh: bourbon cherry shortcake & jalapeño bacon cornbread

Published 24 days ago • 1 min read

recently in the 🌙 kitchen

August 1 marks the start of Lughnasadh, the traditional beginning of harvest season. A time of bounty and abundance. A time to start getting excited about efforts becoming yield.

Concepts very much on my mind these past few weeks as we spent some time visiting family in the Midwest. Look in any direction out there and it's miles upon miles of cornfields and rolling row after row of soy. The sheer volume of it is humbling, in the best of ways.

Knowing that each plant is the precious result of months, sometimes years, worth of effort. Thinking about the magical, massive amount of potential energy encased within each tiny seed that kicks it all off.

While I have never experienced capital-F Farming on such a scale, I have sown and grown a lot of food over the years. It's a beautiful, connected type of work that I miss every day.

It is also a hard, relentless type of work.

This harvest season, I'm especially grateful to those who labor this way, day in and out. Literally feeding us, so that we may channel our efforts in other directions.

For me, this season of life has been about harvesting ideas, sharing in the abundance of knowledge, and addressing hungers of the soul. Forms of work that can only be done when hungers of the body are mercifully met.

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May your month be full of abundance in all it's forms!

skillet jalapeño bacon cornbread

Fresh corn is roasted with spicy jalapeño and white onion before swirling into a bacon studded cornbread batter. Shreds of Monterey jack melt on top for a cheesy, gooey finish!

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bourbon cherry shortcake

with brown sugar whipped cream

Juicy summer cherries and the smoky echo of sweet bourbon seep into buttery shortcake biscuits, topped with warm brown sugar-whipped cream.

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hoping this month's recipes nourish you -- body, mind, and soul -- no matter which of life's phases you currently find yourself in.

thanks for joining me in mine!

🌙 💛

Kelly

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