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Hello Spring! Spring is actually happening! For a while we were not sure it would ever get here. Spring means the beginning of wild food season for us. While you may already be picking dandelions and wishing for mushrooms, these 4 foraged foods are what get us hooked on wild every single year. Stinging Nettles: …
Things are starting to grow. Finally the weather is warm enough to allow the green to begin to show. It will be interesting to see how the green grows this year given the events of last summer. Hurricane Irene rained down upon Vermont and flooding changed the landscape. Importantly, it changed the riverbeds. Just out …
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I live for leftovers! I always make more food than Tall Dark & Handsome and I will eat just because I am planning on leftovers. Unfortunately, sometimes a little bit of this and a little bit of that will take up a whole lot of fridge space. Sometimes my leftover meals are complete failures like …
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Ravioli or Dumplings or Potstickers. It all depends on how you fold and cook them really. When making ‘ravioli’ I take a huge shortcut. I am a little nervous about making pasta. We didn’t eat much Italian and never thought to make pasta growing up. The only time that I was involved in the actual pasta making …
Fiddlehead season is short, try to make the most our of it. Now that you have collected all those fiddleheads you might want to find more ways to eat them. Sautéing in butter is great, but eating that day after day will give you a tummy ache. To preserve you fiddleheads for later use you …
I’ve recently returned from my first fiddlehead outing of the season. It was a success! Up in the sometimes frigid north we’ve been getting antsy for spring for a while now. A few teasers here and again with a couple of days in the 70’s, then we cruelly drop back to 30 degrees. Hiking with …
