The Frugal Cook’s Asparagus Soup
You’re probably thinking that “frugal” and “asparagus” do not belong in the same phrase. Freshly harvested local asparagus is available […]
How to Eat Your Lawn: Dandelion Risotto
If you have an unruly lawn like mine, you can weed and feed at the same time. I get pretty excited […]
Rose Petal Harissa
Yotam Ottolenghi has done it again. He’s written another stunning cookbook – Ottolenghi Simple. As usual, he gets obsessed with a set of […]
Lawn Party: Violet Syrup and Cordials
Another way to eat your lawn… Our so-called lawn is now a meadow of flowers. Covered with white and blue […]
How to Eat Your Lawn: Barley “Risotto” with Dandelion Leaves and Flowers
Ah, the first foraging of spring. While we’re winding down the winter storage pantry and planting seeds that will produce […]
Elderflower Cordial
The smartest way to find out how to cook ingredients that frequent hedgerows, is to consult someone of authority from […]
How to Eat Your Lawn: Violet Vinegar and a Spring Salad
Those enchanting wood violets that appear in the spring make victims of proper lawns. Our lawn, already tainted by a […]
How to Eat Your Lawn: A Salad of Bittercress and Violets
I don’t weed my lawn. I eat it. One of the earliest food crops in my yard is bittercress, a […]
Greatest Hits of 2011
So what clicked the most with my readers this year? A few conspicuous trends, heavy on the cannin’ and jammin’ […]
More Flower Jellies: Borage and Marigold
This is a finale to three-quarters of a year of making jelly from flowers. It started with a lawn full […]
Queen Anne’s Lace Jelly
Foraging the breezy fields for that lacy white flower known as Queen Anne’s Lace, also known as wild carrot, yielded […]
Cooking with Color: Tomato-Calendula Salad and Blue Potatoes with Beets
Okay, I admit that I play with my food. I love compositions and juxtapositions on multiple levels — color, taste, […]
Candied Violets
Candied violets are such a Victorian conceit, sweet little nuggets that deserve to be ever so sweetly and delicately placed […]
Violet Jelly
What a coincidence, the week of the Royal Wedding. A perfect combination of tradition and today’s idea of the environment. […]
October: Turning Yellow and Staying Crisp
When I used to live in a mountainous permafrost region of Wyoming during the summer, we arrived in June to […]
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