By Amanda Rose | Elderberry
Elder is in full bloom in central California. It blooms from early spring and well into the summer at various elevations here. We harvest in the valley in early spring and into higher elevations as the season passes. Elder loves water and so we find it along creek beds. Some of the bushes have managed […]
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By Jeanie Rose | Antiques , Desserts , Recipes
After decades of owning and using Julie Jordan’s Cabbage Town Cafe Cookbook, I finally got around to trying this recipe. You know how you stick a little something between the pages to indicate interest? Or maybe you dog-ear the page? This recipe had both a little slip of paper and a dog-ear. Another decade or […]
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By Amanda Rose | Beets
I peek under our hoop house garden bed to check the progress of the hundred beets we planted early in the winter. The greens look healthy and strong. For two months I have resisted the urge to harvest baby beets early. On occasion, I did harvest a few beets under the auspices of “thinning the […]
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By Amanda Rose | Adventures , Antiques , Beverages , Flavors of the Forest , Recipes
Magical things happen when you take two hours to yourself for the first time in a month. I grabbed some bags, clippers, and gloves and headed out to gather something else entirely when I stumbled upon a prolific stand of native chamomile. Chamomile grows readily here in the Sequoia National Forest but it is a […]
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By Amanda Rose | Persimmon
This bread has a pedigree! I picked up the recipe from David Lebovitz’ blog and he had adapted it from James Beard’s famous persimmon bread. By the time we have all adapted this recipe to our diets and taste buds, James Beard may never recognize its genealogy. Here we have no ordinary quick bread. I […]
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By Amanda Rose | Citrus
Does dessert get any easier than this? I love something sweet after a meal that is heavy with garlic and onion. Most of my meals are! This sweet offering with fresh orange slices is just perfect: light, sweet, and palate cleansing. And I mentioned easy, right? Living on the edge of a large citrus-growing area, […]
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