Farmers Market in May sees the first heads of lettuce. Those fresh salads continue to taste so good after the many months of going without. Baby greens are still tender and delicious, even the weeds are sweet in May. Asparagus comes about halfway through May and the potato farmers have stored their tenderest baby potatoes…
I have a huge maple tree in my front yard. It’s not a sugar maple. At least I don’t think it is. But I’m going to tap it anyways and see what happens. Maple trees need to be at least 40 years old before they will yield enough sap to make 1 gal of syrup….
The other day I wanted to make a craft involving acorn tops which has evolved into a whole project, you gotta love life for that, why don’t I home-school again? Anyway first I had to find an ‘acorn’ tree which the kids learned is actually an Oak tree and several of them grow near the…
Wow. That’s all I should have to post. We used the recipe from the Nourishing Traditions cookbook and one of the salmon I was gifted last year. Every time I prepare one of those fish I am compelled toward gratitude and appreciation for this beautiful animal that gave it’s life to feed me. They are…
My daughter has turned into a bit of a meat eater and so I have been forced to learn how to cook for her. Since I’m not about to start making roasts and this doesn’t seem to be her favorite thing either we thought jerky might be a good idea. As with any good kitchen…
I’ve heard that you can grow ginger in your house. Since I really like ginger and I know no one who grows it I think that perhaps the thing I’d like to try growing is some ginger. I found this really great information from a google search today:
Tis the season to be butchered…la la…wait sorry. It’s slaughtering season which means fresh meat. Yum. For someone who was a vegetarian for most of their life I sure do love fresh meat and there is nothing quite like a roasted chicken, except maybe a roasted duck….anyway… It’s easy. Even I can do it.
This month I had the pleasure of sharing my home with a good friend and her daughter. The addition worked wonderfully and freed both of us single mothers up enough that we got to try a few new things. She encountered some misfortune and picked up a guardia infection at a singing workshop over the…
Well mini-harvest. We didn’t really grow a lot this year being that most of the spring was spent shoveling compost and rocks. But the yard is largely done and looks great (minus the giant pile of rocks left over). What I did plant was a bed of potatoes which did extremely well. I didn’t weigh…
Remember all those greens I helped dry last year? I never tasted any of them. I never even heard how it went other than, oh yeah it was awesome. So, note to self, don’t work with that person again if you’d like to actually learn something. Fast forward to this year and I have been…
It seems to me that if you are going to all the trouble of canning food on the premise of being self sufficient, preserving the local harvest and such that buying pectin for your jams is a little bit counter productive. I mean it’s not like your great grandmother bought her pectin from the grocery…
I am now the proud owner of one of the most valuable cookbooks known to the foodie crowd. Nourishing Traditions is a book that defies convention and steps way outside the box when it comes to the vast majority of our cooking habits. And while I may not agree with Sally Fallon 100% I do…