As many of you know by now, making my own homebrew, specifically mead (honey wine), is one of my favorite things to do. I also love infusing flavors into different mediums, including alcohol. When I don’t have the time to brew up some wine or mead, I like to make an infused wine to extract…
Summer Recipes
Celebrate summer with seasonal summer recipes prepared with wildcrafted or garden fresh ingredients.
Discover foraged herbal treats like Herbal Popsicles with Lavender and Lemon Balm or Calendula Shortbread Cookies  and home-brew beverages such as Wildflower Mead.
Find recipes to preserve the bounty with summer recipes like Fermented Cherry Tomato Bombs and Dehydrated Sweet Peppers. And learn how to cook simple seasonal vegetables like Beets and their Greens.
Zucchini Spice Bread (Made With Butter)
We all know that fall is all about pumpkin spice everything, but why don’t we have a zucchini spice craze in the summertime? I’m about to change that! Zucchini is abundant in gardens everywhere, and can be used in yummy baked goods like this zucchini spice bread made with butter. Zucchini Bread Made with Butter…
Wildflower Herbal Infusion Tea
I love cooking with foraged ingredients, but I especially love it when I can do something fun with wildflowers (wildflower mead, anyone?)Â While the season for fresh wildflowers is generally pretty short, they are easy to dry on a drying screen and store for use throughout the year. Dried edible flowers are perfect for using…
Fermented Sweet Potato Kvass
Fermenting foods is one of my favorite pastimes, and I’ve been especially fond of naturally fermented sodas recently. This fermented turmeric soda I made recently really got me hooked! They are so easy to make and can be flavored any way you like, plus they are actually good for you. I had heard of sweet…
Fermented Pepperoncini Hot Sauce
This fermented pepperoncini hot sauce is an easy and delicious summer fermented food recipe. It’s perfect for preserving the summer harvest, packed with tons of flavor, and not quite as spicy as traditional hot sauce. Pepperoncini Peppers for Hot Sauce For some reason this year, most of our pepper plants didn’t do very well. We…
Fermented Cherry Tomatoes
Fermented cherry tomatoes are an excellent way to preserve an abundance of cherry tomatoes. The finished fermented tomatoes have a slight effervescence and amazing flavor! Preserving Cherry Tomatoes with Fermentation We have so many cherry tomatoes in the garden this year, it’s ridiculous. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, as they are super sweet…
Skillet Peach and Blackberry Cobbler
Topped with vanilla ice cream, this skillet peach and blackberry cobbler is the best summer dessert! It is simple to make and easily adaptable, perfect for last minute company, or if you decide on a whim that you want a tasty treat. Learn how to make traditional skillet cobbler, a delicious fruit dessert! Blackberries for…
Mugwort Lemon Beer Recipe
Brew a primitive mugwort lemon beer with foraged ingredients. This home brew is easy to make and so delicious! Mugwort is easy to forage for, smells delicious, and is a great herb to use in a homemade beer recipe Homemade Herbal Brewing You may remember several weeks ago that I made a starter from wild…
Wild Berry and Nectarine Galette with Goat Cheese and Fresh Thyme
You might have seen my recent post about foraging for salal berries. Well, after bringing home a bunch of these foraged berries, I really wanted to do something delicious with them. Salal berries are slightly sweet when fresh, but I knew that cooking intensifies and brings out their sweetness even more. I’ve watched my good…
Fermented Cucumber Pickles
I absolutely love fermented cucumber pickles, they were probably what originally got me into fermenting to begin with. I’ve been a pickle lover ever since I was a kid, and love all varieties, including the canned vinegar kind and refrigerator pickles. My mom makes awesome sweet bread and butter pickles, and her dill pickles are…