This past week when visiting friends, we were offered some of the grapes that were growing as a carport. What a beautiful gift to be given! I took a bag full. They also offered us some apples from a tree that had split and fallen down. I’m amidst so much processing of food at the […]
This recipe looks so easy and great I had to share it!
Our garlic scapes are now coming fast and furious! They are a wonderful byproduct of growing garlic, since by harvesting, the garlic bulbs grow much larger. In the interest of making no waste, we use every single one! I get asked a lot what we do with them all, so I thought others may have […]
Summer has arrived, and so has an abundance of fruit! I am so excited to be preserving fruit from our land for the coming winter months. We have collected rhubarb and strawberries and wanted to preserve what we’re unable to eat fresh. I have been freezing berries whole and unwashed, so they don’t stick together. […]
Young salsify buds and leaves The salsify has spread across our property. A main criticism of planting salsify is that it spreads so readily. I haven’t figured out why this is a problem yet. Usually we hold out until fall when we harvest salsify roots, but since we have such an abundance of shoots in […]
“A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson This is a photo tour of five ‘weeds’ likely growing in your yard that you can eat! We use all six to make our ‘weed salads’ which we eat all summer long! The children love finding and eating many of these […]
Spring is here! Which also means that foraging dinner from our yard has begun. Our asparagus is up and delicious when it makes it inside the house. It is often consumed as a fresh snack, so it never sees the kitchen! Our hostas have also started poking their spears up through the ground. When tightly […]
Last week we finally cooked up the squirrels that have been waiting in our freezer. Being as we are not ones to waste anything, we kindly took the squirrels from my father-in-law who had been ‘culling the herd’ in order to protect his birdseed. Rob skinned and dressed them around Christmas time, and they have […]
We have some wonderful friends who eat an exclusively raw diet. They came over for dinner a couple weeks back, so I was inspired to get out our favourite raw cookbook, Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine by Gabriel Cousens, M.D.. I am always so pleased with what I make when it comes from this book. A common […]
I haven’t posted a recipe for a while, so I thought I would share this one for my favourite hummus! Ingredients: 1 small onion, chopped 5 gloves garlic, minced splash of Olive Oil 2.5 c cooked or canned chickpeas (garbanzo beans) ¾ c tahini or natural peanut butter 1.5 tbsp Braggs or soy sauce ½ […]
