The other morning I woke to the thin sheen of the season’s first frost glazing the leaves of my kitchen herbs which grow in mismatched, hand-me-down pots and buckets on my front steps. But it’s only August, I hear you say. Indeed. But here in the heart of the Rockies, where my little nook in the community [...]
welcoming the first frost: spiced lentil soup with roasted heirloom tomatoes
August 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
plant a salsa garden
May 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Salsa gardens have been popping up in four-feet by four-feet plots and raised beds in the yards of salsa lovers across the country. Striking in their visual appeal, large plants heavy with tomatoes and brightly colored hot peppers stand tall while cilantro, shallots, garlic and onion nestle into the soil among them, and in one plot [...]
A Recipe: Homemade Horseradish
July 6, 2010 By 15 Comments
Homemade horseradish found its way to our table this week, and it’s hot – painfully hot, pleasurably hot, perfectly hot. When fresh horseradish root appears at market, which is rarely, I fight my way to it – elbowing into the stand before the other Weston A Price Foundation and fermentation enthusiasts in my community can [...]
10 Culinary Herbs & Their Medicinal Uses
June 6, 2010 By 20 Comments
Over the past few weekends, the snow has cleared from the high country (yes … it takes that long for winter to recede up here), and what time I’ve had that hasn’t been occupied by the online cooking class (there’s still time to register, you stragglers …), I’ve spent planting my new herb garden. My porch is littered with fragrant terra cotta and glazed ceramic pots, bursting with charming herbs: rosemary, rose geranium, sweet bay, peppermint, spearmint, curly parsley, flat leaf parsley, dill, sweet basil and violetta basil, thyme and chives and nasturtiums. I think wistfully about finding French tarragon, stevia for teas, marjoram and sweet cicely (for its charming name alone).
Recipe: Spiced Apple Sauce with Red Wine
May 18, 2010 By 10 Comments
Spiced Apple Sauce, with its smooth texture and gentle, warm flavors, has made it to our kitchen table frequently in the last few months as we use up overwintered apples in preparation for the coming harvest. Stewed in red wine and spices, the apples take on a lovely rosy color and a mild sweetness. Like [...]
A Recipe: Sesame-Honey Candy
May 4, 2010 By 42 Comments
Sesame honey candy, or pasteli, is a traditional Greek confection which combines the simplest of ingredients to create a wholesome, natural treat featuring three simple ingredients: sesame seeds, honey and unrefined sea salt. Often served for Easter, though a charming treat any time of the year, sesame honey candy are dense with sesame flavor and [...]
Baked Garlic with Thyme
January 26, 2010 By 18 Comments
Baked garlic, savory and sweet, finds its way into our kitchen more often than it should – weaving its way in and out of sauces, breads and soups. And, without a doubt, we enjoy it in its own right – unctuous and smooth, intensely garlicky and scented with fresh thyme. Garlic, mellowed but simultaneously made [...]
Heady and Aromatic: Mulled Wine for Autumn
September 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Mulled wine, glögg, wassail, glühwein, vin chaud, kuhano vino – all variations on essentially one ubiquitous winter beverage: a pleasantly warm, deliciously spiced, alcoholic punch. While one mulled recipe inevitable varies from another, all share one powerful commonality: warmth, a heady aroma and a robust flavor. A mulled wine recipe may seem an unlikely [...]
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