preserving
Garlic Mustard Pesto Recipe – guilt-free foraging
Garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) is out and about in my corner of North Carolina. This early summertime plant is lush, green, and easy to pull...
Cherry Cordial: Dark, Sweet, and Delicious!
When cherries went on sale this year, I grabbed as many as possible and set to work on making all sorts of goodies! Eric and...
Pear Butter Recipe – small batch from windfall fruit
Last fall, when I picked pears, I was dutiful and busy and made pear cordial, pear vinegar, and pear butter! I cannot tell a lie...
Pear Vinegar Recipe – made with fruit scraps
Last year I came into an abundance of pears from a dear friend with a few grand trees at the edge of her yard. Among...
Lacto-Fermented Garlic Recipe
If you ever find yourself with a spare clove or two of garlic, consider trying a super-simple method of preserving it by fermenting it in salt...
Lemon Cucumber Brined Pickles Recipe
Have you ever grown or used lemon cucumbers? These lovely yellow globes were new to me until I visited a friend whose garden was more...
Freezing Chickweed for Later
Late winter and early spring is the most glorious season for Chickweed! The freezing temperatures don't seem to deter this hardy weed. Her bright green clumps...
Damson Plum & Muscadine Butter
There's a lovely little spot downtown that I quite enjoy walking past as I head into work. It's an office in an old converted Victorian...
Recipe Box: Lacto-fermented Watermelon Radish & Citrus Pickle
The fermenting bug got me again! It starts when I realize that I have a wide-mouthed jar that isn't being put to use, and...
Mmmm…Kale Chips!
I used to think that I didn't like kale. You see, my only experience with kale was when I was a kid, choking down forkfuls...
Three Recipes: Blackberry Bitters, Blackberry Cordial & Blackberry Simple Syrup
Summer days in these mountains mean many wonderful things - fireflies blinking in the dusk, sweet little songbirds chirping, frogs croaking, and one of my...
Hedgerow Jelly: a recipe from the wild places
What is a hedgerow? In the cultured, organized sense, it is meant to be a barrier of trees and shrubs planted to mark boundary lines...
Drying Strawberry Tops
I admit it: I'm lazy. A lazy cook, a lazy gardener...I like to set things up and let them do their own thing with minimal input...
Strawberry Mango Mojito Jam Recipe (small batch)
You might remember that earlier this month I had a Strawberry Jam Session after getting a big bucket of fresh berries at the Asheville Herb...
Strawberry Jam Session
I spent a few hours at the Asheville Herb Festival last Saturday and ended up coming home with a big old basket full of ripe,...