i hope you eat good food, grow beautiful things, and have more love than you know what to do with.
My grape vines have leafed out and now that the leaves are about the size of my hand, it’s time for dolmades! I love plants that can be grown for both fruit and vegetables, and grapes are one of the best. Fresh dolmades are really …
I had been meaning to make pork dumplings with hairy bittercress for a while and called my mom to ask what she usually adds to hers, but in talking to her, she said if I have any leftover gelatin based broth, I can add it …
I was at the supermarket today and saw a giant bucket of live crawfish on sale–and if you know me you know that I often get cravings for them. I don’t know what it is about these delicious morsels, whether it’s the joy of peeling …
Oh dear, I’m afraid I might have opened a delicious but dangerous gate with these scones. Fluffy, but still somewhat dense like a traditional scone, sweet, tart, floral, and fruity, I found myself having eaten two before I realized what I was even doing! Sure, …
Garlic mustard is out in full force along my back fence, where I haven’t had the time to plant/cultivate anything just yet. Considered a highly invasive weed, this plant is also a wonderful foraged green in early spring, when it’s still tender and not very …
Now that spring is officially here, in general, the only things I usually buy from the store, when I do go, are meat and dairy products (sometimes grain/flour as well, but I buy rice in bulk and bake my own bread so that’s an every …
I’m on a hosta shoot binge because they’ve started to unfurl in my garden, and while you can eat them up until they reach about 7 – 8 inches and fully uncurl, they become progressively more bitter and tough, rather than sweet and tender. This …
I’m currently reveling in the hosta shoots that are coming up–another two weeks and they’ll be too tough and bitter to eat and then I’ll have to wait until the flower buds come in. Right now they’re deliciously tender and mild, perfect for skewering and …
It’s spring and my hostas are starting to come up. This means hosta shoots galore. With a flavor and texture like artichokes, they are absolutely delicious as tempura, which is what I made today for lunch. You might feel weird eating something you’d thought of …
If you don’t like natto, you could most likely skip this post, but if you do, then this wouldn’t be too out of your depth. This is something out of my childhood and my ancestral province of Sze Chuan. I used black soybeans but traditionally, …