Hey my friends! Here’s the next post in my “What to do with your CSA Box Veggies” series, if you’d like to see the first two posts in the series check out How to Cook Beets and Their Greens and What to do With Cabbage. This one is all about corn, how to make grilled…
Cook
Cooking and preserving traditional food from scratch is one of my passions, and it’s even better if it includes homegrown, foraged, or fermented ingredients. I prefer to use whole foods and many of my recipes use herbs, flowers, and other fresh from the garden ingredients. Sourdough is another passion, and I also have a thing for cooking in cast iron pans!
Learn how to make sourdough tortillas, roasted beets and their greens, and traditional nitrate free corned beef.
How to Brew Beer From a Kit
You’ve seen me brew several things here, mainly mead and cider, but as of yet I haven’t forayed into beer on this blog. To be honest, it’s because brewing beer is a more difficult process than making simple country wines, ciders and meads. But, there is a way to brew beer that is a bit…
Slow Cooker Pork Shoulder
I don’t know about you, but cooking big hunks of meat used to really freak me out. I was a vegetarian for a lot of years, so once I started eating meat again all of the cooking was pretty much done by Joel. Although I was a pretty well accomplished vegetarian and vegan cook, I…
Fermented Chili Paste
When you have a bumper crop of hot peppers, make this fermented chili paste recipe. A delicious and naturally lacto-fermented hot chili paste that will knock your socks off! Chili Peppers for Fermented Chili Paste My friends, once you start fermenting things, you will never want to stop! Whenever you come into a bumper crop…
CSA Box Veggies: What to do With Cabbage
Well, hello there! Here we are in the middle of the growing season, and it’s time for a second round of how to prepare your CSA box (or farmer’s market) veggies! In the first round we talked about how to cook beets and their greens, and today we’re going to talk about what to do…
Hibiscus Kombucha
What would a blog that includes fermenting be without the requisite kombucha post? I must admit that I became a kombucha junkie many years ago, even before it was a “thing”. People thought I was crazy, but it made me feel good and soon everyone caught on. The price tag, however, made me wonder if…
CSA Box Veggies: How to Cook Beets and Their Greens
Hello and welcome to summer! I don’t know about you, but I’m sure loving it. The start of each new season is always exciting for me as it brings new and wonderful things in the garden and subsequently to the kitchen. Summer produce is always so fun and bountiful that it’s a great time to…
Fermented Cattail Shoots
Well hello there! I’ve been busy this weekend with my ferments, one of which has to do with cattail shoots. After we collected a good bunch of cattail shoots a couple of weeks ago I couldn’t quite decide what to do with them. When eaten raw they tasted similar to fresh cucumber, which made me…
How to Make Wildflower Mead
Here is a great recipe for how to make wildflower mead (honey wine) using foraged flowers from your yard. The finished mead is dry, with a hint of sweetness and a wonderful floral aroma. A must make mead recipe when wildflowers are plentiful in summertime! Simple Mead Making Ebook Want to learn more about making…
Sourdough Tortillas
Many years ago, when I first started making my own sourdough, I decided that I must put sourdough starter in ALL the things. Usually, this was a good thing, because sourdough only makes things better in my mind. But, when I first made the leap to put it into sourdough tortillas, my mind was blown!…