Sides + Snacks Archives - rooting the sun

the social lubrication of garlic scapes

July 2, 2016 By Danielle 4 Comments

we’ve just cut the garlic from the cloth of the fertile ground and there’s a raw piece of it in my mouth. it’s stimulating and sensory, a taste all-consuming of each taste bud – busying them into oblivion. it’s fresh. it’s so fresh that we are glowing in the band of darkness that surrounds us now. it feels good to release the roots of these fertile, bulbous creatures. a season spent bundled beneath leaf and snow, only to entertain the next with poised intention. a life cycle i both admire and condone. briefly i intimate myself with the spur of garlic stitched to the side of my tongue. the garlic is thermal and spicy, radiating a residual energy from the ground. i’m tasting full circle and all of the sudden my head is spinning with inebriated adoration.

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leeks vinaigrette

April 5, 2016 By Danielle 10 Comments

the dusk is a taxi to all the feelings that follow the fullest of days. an ode to the hours of light in which we dress ourselves both fancy and free. the feeling of elation when hands are dark and stained with the pores of the earth beneath us. each day to dig a little deeper, uncover a new moment, call it from dormancy, and greet it with humanity.

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skillet asparagus with blood orange sauce and poached almonds

April 2, 2016 By Danielle 12 Comments

today, the sun. and it feels just like they said it would. at the top of the stairs i see her standing there and she is the sky. she is the sky and she is wearing spring effortlessly today. today she’ll turn the mud into clay and provoke the hedgerows to flower. she doesn’t make excuses about where she’s been, but now she’s here. i am the supplicant gardener and she is the answer. both humbled and gracious, the second of april feels good.

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farro new years dolmas with lemon mint hazelnut sauce

January 4, 2016 By Danielle 14 Comments

2016 and the first air of the new year is tightly wound around us like a cold scarf, although our shivers are ever quelled by resolute attitudes and a general excitement for what that entails. i used to be a fervent resolution scribe, copying and re-modifying lists of places, people, things. in good time i’ve found that equal parts of determination, anticipation, whimsy and wind create a desirable and well-enjoyed year. many things we can control, and the events that remain are of the universe. i will keep my love deep, my head high, and my mountains taller than the last. my judgment belated, my compassion present, and my understanding malleable and willing to change. patience to listen to what i’m being told, and a feeling of fortune that it’s my eyes and ears that are being acknowledged. more of all that i am. and more of all that moves us.

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Rosemary Pomegranate Popsicles

December 22, 2015 By Danielle 8 Comments

Strange desires seemingly unearth themselves within me given this time of year. We are securely surrounded by the cold (our forecast predicted ‘freezing’ as the high temperature), there is a frequent need to add additional clothing, and abundant is the great white precipitation we affectionately call snow. I question myself, although briefly, of the temptations that I contain. And be it that these temptations appear in the form of popsicle and ice treats, always in the cold.

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