I have been inspired by a post on one of my favorite food blogs ~ 101cookbooks.com ~ that muses on a cracker recipe from the book, “The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods you can stop buying and start making.”
I think I can put a few things on this list. And I want this list to grow. I have said it before and I’ll say it again, there is nothing more liberating than knowing you can feed yourself.
Continue reading Things I want to Stop Buying and Starting Making
I had another blog, here, and just this past Autumn decided to switch to the ever-so-sleek WordPress. (Also, so I could take on a new clever blog name 🙂 )
I did not transfer my posts over though, and this is one I felt was golden at the time. Since I just got in from harvesting my first wild leeks of the season, instead of writing a similar post, I’d thought I’d share this one again. (The pics are from today, though.)
“It’s only just hitting mid-April, but I found my first ever wild leeks (ramps). I feel like a Yankee, or Pocahontas, or something equally as idyllic and conjoined with nature.
It was a gift from our woods, the first one to come directly to me, unless maybe you would count the pussy willows I found a month ago, before anything had turned green at all. But well, I couldn’t eat those…
Continue reading Ramps, rocket, redemption – from the 2010 archives
It is easy to explain the Kapha dosha at this time of year – all I need to tell someone is well, look out your window.
Spring is Kapha season. We like to think of Spring as the time then sun comes back, the time of new beginnings, and it is, sort of – but we have to think about the literal signs of Spring. Flowers don’t come right away – the thaw comes first!
Going for a walk yesterday, we inevitably commented on the weather and the world around us: “The ground feels so soft!” “Oh man, there is mud everywhere, the roads are getting slippery.” “The fog was so thick it was hard to see driving…the air is so heavy and cold.” Guru, manda, hima, snigda…and so on.
It’s that time – time to sign up for a Spring CSA. Community Supported Agriculture. I’m imagining the fresh, sweet lettuces, soft buttery leaves topped with chopped, spicy Spring radishes….mmmm…
Continue reading Farm Fresh Foods – Second and Third CSA Adventure
