Nasturtiums are an easy-to-grow edible flower with an old fashioned feel to them. They have been growing in and around gardens for centuries! If you look in the original Peter Rabbit book by Beatrix Potter (originally written in 1893 and published in 1902) you will see nasturtiums in the beautiful illustrations. Since the nasturtiums I…
Sauces & Condiments
Search through to find the tastiest sauces and condiments recipes made with real ingredients. Many recipes get a probiotic health boost for your gut by going through the process of fermentation.
Here you'll find unique Pesto recipes like Dandelion Pesto, Herbal Infused Honey or Vinegar such as Wild Violet Infused Vinegar, Fermented Vegetables, sauces like Fermented Hot Sauce and Fermented Ketchup, Curd or Fruit Butters, and Honey Ferments like Honey Garlic and Honey Cranberries.
Green Tomato Salsa Verde
{This post is sponsored by Ball® Fresh Preserving} If you have a lot of green tomatoes in your garden, this green tomato salsa verde recipe is for you! It has the subtle tang of green tomatoes with a hint of lime. This green salsa is perfect paired with chips, as a taco topper, or on…
Infused Dandelion Vinegar
When dandelions are abundant in springtime make this infused dandelion vinegar! It has a subtle combined sweetness and bitterness and can be used to make a wonderful salad dressing. Dandelion is beneficial for digestion and for the liver. It is also a highly nutritive tonic and I love coming up with new recipes for how…
Forsythia Flower Honey Syrup
You know that spring has sprung when you see the bright yellow blaze of forsythia blossoms across the neighborhood. Forsythia is a shrub that barely gets noticed until spring arrives, and then it’s the star of the show! I was pleasantly surprised and excited to find out that forsythia flowers are edible, especially since I…
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
One of the first flowers to emerge in late winter and early spring are wild violets. We get them all over our backyard, so finding them is pretty easy! Since we have so many, I decided that I better do something with them, and making wild violet infused vinegar seemed like the best idea. It’s…
Dandelion Pesto
I have an exciting foraged food recipe to share with you today! I’ve wanted to make dandelion pesto for a long time, but have recently been inspired by a brand new book by Rosalee de la Forêt, Alchemy of Herbs. This book is full of amazing herbal recipes, I really want to try them all!…
Fermented Honey Cranberries
When I started my fermented honey garlic a few weeks ago, it got me thinking about what else I could ferment in honey. I have seen recipes for berries in honey, and being that we’re coming up on the holiday season, fermenting cranberries in honey seemed like the natural thing to do. I’m so glad…
Fermented Honey Garlic
I’m really excited to share this post with you! Fermented honey garlic is something I’ve been wanting to try for a very long time, ever since I first read about it on the Killer Pickles blog. I usually reserve my honey for mead making, but using it for other ferments intrigued me. Don’t ask me…
Fermented Pepperoncini Hot Sauce
For some reason this year, most of our pepper plants didn’t do very well. We only got one or two bell peppers total, and a few hot peppers here and there. Then we have this one pepperoncini plant which has produced so many peppers that I don’t even know what to do with all of…
