Month: December 2017

So what happens when you leave your garden…

what happens when you leave your garden

I had to leave my garden for 3 weeks for a family reunion. Next year, I’ll also have to leave for the same amount of time for my youngest sisters wedding. “Blarg!” I say, I was hoping that I would come back to a weedy over grown mess. You heard me right. At least then I’d have something I could sell this year to my town for Halloween and Thanksgiving.

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Nut free American Sorrel Pesto Recipe

2/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil more or less on how thin you want it

4 cups of sorrel leaves

2 garlic cloves

1/2 cup pumpkin seeds

3/4 cups grated Parmesan (Reggiano) cheese

1/3 cup grated Pecorino Romano (Locatelli) cheese

Salt and pepper

2 teaspoons lemon juice

2 or 3 clean jars rinsed with white vinegar.

In a food processor put in the lemon juice, garlic and sorrel. Pulse a couple of times then add the cheese. Blend until it because a paste. As the food processor is going slowly drizzle in the extra-virgin olive oil. Taste for seasoning. Then spoon in to the jars pack it down for no air pocket . Then put a 1/8 to a 1/4 inch of oil on top and place in the fridge will last threw winter. Can freeze until spring.

Give it the Cheese!

sorrel recipe

Blend, Blend, Blend until it come together.

It goes great on pasta crackers tomatoes and more I hope you enjoy it!

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What I found in the New England grass.

Foraging

I love the idea that nature and will God provide. All one needs is the knowledge to take advantage of that. Us being humans, we have the lucky advantages of being able to eat all sorts of things and not die. Even things I had never even thought of are edible (eatable?). I have to admit I never thought of foraging as a thing anyone can do in their back yard. “It’s a survival trick. People use it when they get stranded on a desert island.” I thought. “Or crazy survivalist types.” But when I moved to the east coast I met a arborist and soon we became friends. A little while later she gave me a book on foraging. “Strange,” I thought “maybe she wants to take me to a mountain and if I get lost I won’t starve. That’s nice of her…” As I went through it I noticed things that I saw in Michigan that we think of as the everyday weeds and grasses. THE BOOK SAID I COULD EAT THEM (mind blown). “I must make a foraged salad and now!!!”

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A Victory Garden, a defense of the home front

One definition of a Victory garden, also called war gardens, or “food gardens for defense”, were vegetable, fruit, and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Germany during World War I and World War II.

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