This always happens to me. I come into some wild food and then I get a wild hair to make something genius with it in the kitchen. So I dedicate myself with so much time and energy that I overextend myself, producing mediocre results. Then since I’ve committed so much heart to it, … [Read more...]
My turn to do wild edible gnocchi
It’s markdown season at the grocery store, now that the tourists are in absentia for a while, joined by the locals who migrate to parts warmer during mud season too. So it’s time for the good deals—such as the $1 bag of slightly soft “Red Skin Yellow Flesh Colorado Sunrise” … [Read more...]
Rosehip & wild seed granola bars
For two years I bugged my friend for her grandmother’s granola bar recipe. “Erica! I finally found my recipe!” she emailed one day, and that was two years ago. So last night, approximately four years after the idea’s inception, my plans finally came to fruition when I made these … [Read more...]
Rebecca Lerner’s ‘Dandelion Hunter’
There’s a young woman who hunts dandelions and sundry other edible and medicinal wild plants out of an apartment in Portland, Oregon, relishing reconnecting with nature after a several-years-long stint sequestered indoors, surrounded by a plantless outdoors, working for a New … [Read more...]
Pumpkin, nettles and beer, oh my!
I’ve had a request so I hereby present two squash nettle soups, both made with ingredients that are out of season here at 10,000 feet in the Colorado high country. The first—a pumpkin, nettle, and beer soup—I made in November after receiving the gift of a pumpkin on our … [Read more...]
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