The blooming bright yellow flowers of the forsythia shrub is one of the first signs of spring, but not everyone knows that the blossoms are edible! Make this forsythia syrup with honey for a delicious spring treat. Edible Forsythia Flowers You know that spring has sprung when you see the bright yellow blaze of forsythia…
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Cooking and preserving traditional food from scratch is one of my passions, and it’s even better if it includes homegrown, foraged, or fermented ingredients. I prefer to use whole foods and many of my recipes use herbs, flowers, and other fresh from the garden ingredients. Sourdough is another passion, and I also have a thing for cooking in cast iron pans!
Learn how to make sourdough tortillas, roasted beets and their greens, and traditional nitrate free corned beef.
Chickweed Pesto: Wild Greens Superfood Recipe
Foraging is one of the most rewarding things that you can do, especially when you find a huge patch of a highly nutritious plant such as chickweed. While it’s always fun to find and identify a wild edible plant here and there, it can be a rare occasion to be able to harvest enough to…
Wild Violet Flower Infused Vinegar
When your yard is full of wild violet flowers in the spring, pick a handful and make this wild violet infused vinegar! This gorgeous purple wild violet flower infused vinegar is perfect to use in salad dressings, drinks, and medicinally as well. Wildcrafting Weeds If you want to learn more about the edible and medicinal…
Roasted Dandelion Root Coffee with Chicory Root & Cinnamon
{This post is sponsored by Mountain Rose Herbs} What if I told you that roasted dandelion root tasted almost exactly like coffee when brewed? Even more so when you add a pinch of roasted chicory root! I’ve heard this time and time again from people or read it on the internet, but I never actually…
Fermented Apple Ginger Beer (Made with a Ginger Bug)
When apples are in season make this naturally fermented apple ginger beer. It’s made with a ginger bug and is super fizzy and delicious! Fermenting Apples and Ginger Fall is the season for apples, and apples and ginger go together spectacularly! Ever since I first made a ginger bug, I knew that I wanted to…
Fermented Elderberry Soda with Ginger and Honey (Made with Wild Yeast)
Learn how to make this easy and delicious fermented elderberry soda with ginger and honey! It can be made with a wild yeast starter made with foraged elderberries, or a ginger bug. It’s the perfect natural soda for late summer and fall! Elderberry Season Elderberry season is always an exciting time. I love watching the…
Zucchini Spice Bread (Made With Butter)
We all know that fall is all about pumpkin spice everything, but why don’t we have a zucchini spice craze in the summertime? I’m about to change that! Zucchini is abundant in gardens everywhere, and can be used in yummy baked goods like this zucchini spice bread made with butter. Zucchini Bread Made with Butter…
Blackberry Mead: One Gallon Recipe
Hot summer days mean one thing to me: blackberries are ripening! It’s usually sometime in August that we start foraging for blackberries, and I always make sure to reserve some for making a gallon (or two or three) of blackberry mead. Of course blackberry cobbler and crisp will also be made, and they are delicious,…
5 Medicinal Herbs in Your Spice Rack
I love herbal medicine, and when I first got really into it I was surprised and pleased to learn that so many common herbs and spices are medicinal. Many herbs and spices that most of us already have in our spice racks do double duty as powerful healers. I’m going to go over five of…
Wildflower Herbal Infusion Tea
I love cooking with foraged ingredients, but I especially love it when I can do something fun with wildflowers (wildflower mead, anyone?) While the season for fresh wildflowers is generally pretty short, they are easy to dry on a drying screen and store for use throughout the year. Dried edible flowers are perfect for using…
