The Vicarious Farmer: The Kraut King has been summoned.
These cabbages were truly the pride of my garden this year. Started from seed, grown so big and lovely…the garden is quite lackluster now without them. Now they patiently wait in the cool of the...
View ArticleMining jewels
The metaphor of precious jewels is irresistible when describing the season of canning. Reds, golds, vibrant indigo, plum – I now understand that the color “plum” refers to the cooked fruit, not the...
View ArticleIn which I reveal my kitchen secrets
These are a few of my favorite (culinary) things… 1. CELERIAC! This homely, bulbous mass of intense flavor is like celery, only MORE SO! I use it in lieu of celery by simply slicing off a portion,...
View ArticleThe secret ingredient of Nettle Soup is…
a good helper wearing mismatched snow mittens.
View ArticleTomato Security
In the course of one (long) day, we traversed the Tomato Gap. The immense weight of tomatoes ripening, languishing, a handful of yards from the house had been building up, the harvest delayed again...
View ArticleThere were none left to frost.
Having missed the boat on making cut-out cookies before Christmas, we snagged the opportunity to do it recently, in honor of Valentine’s Day. I assembled Grandma’s time honored recipe, fancy cookie...
View ArticleGoat-amole
In a random stroke of genius one night, Captain Daddio mixed some soft goat cheese into the batch of guacamole he was making, a simple act which left us dazed and speechless for a bit. How had we...
View ArticleMarch Forth
If + homemade, from-scratch doughnuts + a dinner of my choosing: grilled lambchops, Czech style red cabbage, and sweet potato fries + a homemade, from-scratch angel food cake with chocolate glaze...
View ArticleWhat is that bubbling on my counter?
1 – Birthday Crock, 1 – half-gallon mason jar full of water, used as a weight, 1 – boy, used as prop, 1 – Wild Fermentation book (not shown) 1 – half head of cabbage rescued from almost-certain...
View ArticleRevisiting: Graham Crackers from Scratch
Here’s a post from the FGA vault: ABC Graham Crackers. It’s a recipe I’ve been thinking about a lot lately, finding myself again with a wee one hungry for exposure to ABCs, edible or otherwise....
View ArticleFilling the larder
I never did put in a garden this year. There were big plans to do so; the perimeter fences of two gardens were rerouted to make one bigger central space. They were mostly rerouted, to clarify. Most...
View ArticleOut of nowhere, a Cajun Fete.
It was not quite a week ago when I was summoned from bed earlier than I had liked. He was clad in a bathrobe and he delivered the simple words that yanked me into full consciousness. “Our pipes are...
View ArticleForaging: Pickled Ramps
Before the spinach or early lettuce or even the asparagus, there are ramps to fill the desperate hunger for something green that taunts our bellies at the start of Spring. Ramps — garlic’s subtle...
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