By Amanda Rose | Berries
How often have you stumbled onto a new food and wondered what to do with it? “Sample it,” is a good idea. What if it’s a food that you are interested in preserving and you wonder what its qualities are? “Sample it.” Let me explain. We have been leveraging our large forest bounty more and […]
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By Jeanie Rose | Berries
Have you ever noticed how fruit varieties that come to harvest at the same time in any given area usually taste really good together? Whose great plan was that!?! This fruit combination for popsicles plays on that synergy. We were coming to the close of our raspberry crop. You know how it is when there’s […]
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By Jeanie Rose | Eggplant
On a long plane ride I sat beside a woman from Hot Springs, Arkansas. She realized I had a big garden and offered me a recipe for an eggplant dish served at the Hot Springs Hotel. I scratched out the recipe on the back of my ticket packet. It sounded pretty interesting. Once home, I […]
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Editor’s note: This post is written by our youngest writer, Frederick (11), who describes his experiences with cooking and foraging around our home in California’s Sequoia National Forest. This summer my mom, my grandma Bea, my little brother Alastair, and I picked wild currants. Wild berries aren’t always safe to eat and that reminded me […]
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By Jeanie Rose | Summer Squash
Once I decided that purslane was probably our most reliable summer green, I began to explore ideas to use it, besides tossing it to the chickens. Food and Wine posted a splendid recipe by chef Alain Coumont. He was my inspiration for this soup, although he would only vaguely recognize the influence in my final […]
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By Jeanie Rose | Corn
I found this recipe in the Food Network Favorite Recipes book; they found the recipe while taping in Mexico. The first time I tried it we all agreed that we would be happy to just eat a meal of Mexican grilled corn. The five-star end result is much greater than the sum of the parts. […]
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