If you are craving Asian food and looking for a quick meal to toss together, lo mein is the perfect dish. It can be made with thin vermicelli style noodles, but my favorite noodles for the dish are wide, flat lo mein noodles. It's quick and easy and can easily be made in 20 to... Continue Reading →
Drop Biscuits with Wild Garlic and Cheddar
These biscuits are made with freshly picked wild garlic commonly referred to where I'm from as wild onions. Like almost every yard in my neighborhood, we have plenty of these wild Alliums in our early Spring landscape. This recipe is a great way to use turn the weeds into something delicious. The biscuits would be perfect dinner... Continue Reading →
Morel and Chickweed Puff-Pastry Quiche
If you are lucky enough to have a pile of freshly foraged morels sitting in your kitchen, this is the perfect recipe for you. If you don't have fresh wild mushrooms and chickweed, you can use readily available ingredients (such as store bought crimini or shitaki and spinach) for this recipe, and still end... Continue Reading →
Easy to Peel, Hard-“Boiled” Fresh Eggs
Having a devil of a time making deviled or hard boiled eggs from farm fresh eggs? Here is how you can easily make perfectly peelable eggs. I have tended chickens many of my years and have gathered thousands of fresh eggs. I have enjoyed them fried, poached, scrambled, dropped in soup, baked in quiche... pretty... Continue Reading →
Wild Spring Salad with Chickweed, Bittercress, Bacon and Fresh Mandarin Oranges
Chickweed is the star of, and reason for, this salad. The bittercress plays a supporting role as it just happened to be growing through a patch of Chickweed in my yard. The flavors of the two greens compliment each other beautifully. Finding them together was like foraging a ready-made salad mix. These two greens together... Continue Reading →
Jalapeño Cornbread
This cornbread is full of flavor, finely diced peppers,and the perfect amount of heat. It is not your sheet pan, grocery store deli, sliced peppers from a tin can kind of jalapeno cornbread. This fluffy cornbread gives you jalapeno and cheddar flavor, inside a beautiful crunchy crust. First, you need a well seasoned cast iron... Continue Reading →