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Author: Olivia Leadbetter

2021 Reading

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

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, … More

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 … More

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. … More

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. … More

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! … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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

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