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2021 Reading

“The appetite for silence is rarely an acquired taste.” – Emily Dickinson I started reading consistently again, and before getting…

2021 reads, book, books, reading

Blue Butterfly Pea Tea (& Kombucha!)

Lately I’ve been obsessing over flowers. After picking up a copy of Monica Nelson’s book Edible Flowers, Bougainvillea agua frescas,…

Blue butterfly pea, kombucha, tea

Magnolias on My Mind (Spring 2022)

This Spring, I learned via Alexis Nikole Nelson (@blackforager) that Magnolia petals are edible. The discovery has been joy on…

edible flowers, Foraging, kombucha, Lemonade, Magnolias, pickles

Foraging & Cooking: Fried Puffball Mushrooms! (January 2022)

I FOUND PUFF MUSHIES! Growing in a fairy ring no less… In January I found my very first puffball mushrooms.…

Foraging, fried puffballs, Mushrooms, puffballs

Foraging & Cooking: Lets Talk About Chicken of the Woods (September 2021)

DL;DR: Chicken of the woods are a delicious foraged mushroom to cook with, but always be an informed/ cautious forager.…

chicken of the woods, Cooking, Foraging, Laetiporus, mushroom, shelf mushroom

Akin to Carbonara: Fresh Pasta & Smoked Trout

Tell any Italian you made smoked trout carbonara and you are bound to stir up controversy. The abomination! The obscenity!…

carbonara, Cooking, fishwife, fresh pasta, pasta, smoked trout, smoked trout carbonara

Farmers’ Market Salad: The Taste of Southern California (Summer 2021)

Los Angeles has no shortage of culinary inspiration, and the farmers’ markets here have been giving me all sorts of…

allium giganteum, californiia, farmers market, flowers, friend squash blossoms, goat cheese, nasturtiums, salad, squash blossoms, summer, summer salad

Deviled Quail Eggs! (May 2021)

When I moved to California (May 2021), I went months without really cooking anything in my new kitchen. I had…

Cooking, eggs, quail eggs

Foraged Garlic Mustard & Wild Onion Pasta (Spring 2021)

Before I left the East Coast to move to the West Coast, I had one final foraging adventure: garlic mustard…

Cooking, Foraging, fresh pasta, garlic mustard, spring, spring foraging, wild onion

Day Bread With Dried Figs, Chestnut Flour, & Rye

I am forever experimenting with ingredients and adapting the recipes I use and trust the most. This week, I adapted…

Baking, bread, chestnut flour, day bread, fig, fruit and nut, fruit and nut bread, recipe, rye, scratch kitchen

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