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The Joy of Jams, Jellies, and Other Sweet Preserves
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- Bamboo for Dinner
- A Mixed Pickle of Mixed Parentage
- One Fine Mixer: Fermented Lemon Brine
- Experiments with Tibicos (Water Kefir)
- Homegrown Belgian Endive
- Eating and Drinking in New Orleans
- A Quick Wintertime Refrigerator Relish
- Citron Melon Again, for Dessert
- A Bean Worth Drying: The Scarlet Runner
Category Archives: Wild foods
Citron Melon Again, for Dessert
Every day this winter I’ve eyed my citron melons in the entry hall, admiring their summery beauty and wondering how long they would keep. Some people say they store well for a whole year, but I’m guessing that’s true only … Continue reading
Posted in Fruits, Wild foods
Tagged citron melon, compote, fruit, jam melon, melon pie, pie melon
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Un Blog Affidabile
The most enjoyable part of keeping a WordPress blog, to my mind, is checking your blog’s statistics to see where in the world your most recent readers live. Although many of my international readers probably lack enough facility with English … Continue reading
Posted in Books and blogs, Vegetables, Wild foods
Tagged blog awards, Debbi Love, Green Deane, Meg Bortin, Ting Gough
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Gauging the Gages
While picking apples yesterday I noticed that most of the leaves had blown off one of my greengage trees, the one that grew up from the rootstock of a dead nectarine tree. Among all my Prunus trees, this one’s fruits … Continue reading
Posted in Fruits, Wild foods
Tagged cerasifera, gage, greengage, Home Orchard Society, italica, mirabelle, One Green World, plum, prune, Prunus domestica, syriaca
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The New Queen Must Be Laying
Such a loud hum came from my favorite cherry tree yesterday that I thought I had a swarm on my hands. But on this sunny spring morning the bees were only happily collecting food for their babies. Like the forager … Continue reading
Tasting Dandelion Wine
Yesterday my husband brought me a glass of the dandelion wine we made last April. It’s a lovely brew, gently aromatic from the citrus and ginger, and sweet with residual sugar. I think I now know what the dandelions are … Continue reading
Posted in Fermented foods, Wild foods
Tagged country wines, dandelion wine, dandelions, food, food preserving, homemade wine
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Pickled Chanterelles
At the start of mushroom season in western Oregon, I was lucky enough to take a gathering trip in the Willamette National Forestwith employees of the Sweet Home Ranger District, who had scouted out a good site beforehand. Yellow and … Continue reading
My First Dandelion Wine
The last day of March dawned clear and breezy, and the grass all around was spotted yellow. The day was perfect for picking dandelions. Ever since I was twelve years old, when I read Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine, I’d thought … Continue reading
Posted in Fermented foods, Wild foods
Tagged country wines, dandelion wine, dandelions, food, food preserving, homemade wine
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The Modern Hunter-Gatherer
“There is a saving streak of the primitive in all of us,” wrote Euell Gibbons, who introduced the art of foraging to the citified masses in the 1960s and 1970s. Hunting was as popular a sport then as now, but … Continue reading
The Oregon Grape
Wild Fruit for a Tart and Tasty Jelly In the woods one day, my friend Jocelyn saw me eat an Oregon grape, tried one herself, and screamed. I was unfazed; just after my daughter, not yet two years old, had … Continue reading
Posted in Fruits, Sweet preserves, Wild foods
Tagged food, foraging, fruit, jelly, Oregon grape
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A Good Weed: Sheep Sorrel
A few days ago, while tearing up the sorrel that had invaded my rhubarb bed, I took care to separate the leaves from the creeping roots. The roots I left on the ground to rot; the leaves I … Continue reading
