Editor’s Note: Ellie Markovitch of storycooking.com is back with another seasonal recipe, this time with sorrel. -Christina The weather here is still fighting between late winter and springtime, but last week, I got a taste of Spring from Rebekah Rice’s 9Mile farm green house — a bunch of “azedinha” as we call them in Brazil. You may know it…
Category: Spring
{In Season} Hakurei Turnips
It’s May. Around here, that means it’s time to enjoy warmer spring days, plant the garden and divide perennials, watch baby leaves unfold from the trees, splash in puddles and observe the reawakening of dormant house cats everywhere. For me, May is also a time to enjoy eating hakurei turnips. I first tried hakurei turnips a few years…
{Recipe} For the Pie-Challenged
I have always been an utter failure at making pies. They sometimes taste good, but they look awful and are entirely lacking in aesthetic appeal. I apply uneven pressure on the rolling pin, make badly crimped edges that leak, use too much flour to dust, yadayadayada. So in my self-loathing, I tend to concentrate on…
{Springtime} Savory Local Scones
This week has been a week of scones. I’m not even halfway through it and I’ve had three different types of scones. I won’t even tell you the actual quantity I’ve consumed, because if I did you’d insist on driving me to the gym. On Sunday night I decided that the next morning I would…
{springtime recipe} Pickled Fiddleheads
Before they are gone for the season, please go to your local farmers market and grab a bag of a truly “wild” and “foraged” food: premature ostrich fern, also known as Fiddleheads. They are curled-up ferns before they fan out into their fuzzy frond glory. I am lucky to be able to get my fix…
{recipe} spinach mushroom risotto
I know it’s corny, but making risotto brings back a memory from Italy. About ten years ago a girlfriend and I were traveling there for a few weeks and had grown restless from a few days on the Italian west coast. We headed in to Florence by train and suddenly found ourselves in the city,…
{how you do it} NOW is the Time to Plan Your Garden
Editor’s Note: Please enjoy Dianna’s third installment of her monthly {How You Do It} series. Don’t miss this extremely informative post on planning a ‘tomato sauce’ garden through the eyes of the “Community Share Cropping” system Dianna and her husband, Michael, created with their network of friends. Oh, and she shares a terrific tomato sauce…
{WNIMK} Herbs In a Bathtub
Editor’s Note: What’s New in My Kitchen Wednesdays, is a weekly series where we weave a personal story with a review of a beloved or new “item” in our kitchen, in our glass or on our plate. -Christina Herbs and a bathtub, a perfect combo. The past several weeks the girls have been begging me…
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