Yaarrrr! It be citrus bounty week here in Los Altos Hills, CA… I gathered m’self about 10 schhwarly pounds of home-grown blood oranges and meyer lemons (from a co-worker and a neighbor, respectively). Ahh…
DIY Food Projects
Moroccan Salt Preserved Citrus: Blood Oranges and Meyer Lemons
March 6th, 2008 | by Jen | published in All, DIY Food Projects, Fantastic Fruits, Lemon, Most Popular, Orange, Preserves and Pickles, Weekend Projects
Georgia Boiled Peanuts
January 27th, 2008 | by Jen | published in DIY Food Projects, Legumes, Veritable Vegetables, Weekend Projects
Perhaps if I’d grown up in the South I would have heard of boiled peanuts sooner than my 27th year of existence. But alas, I grew up in the Pacific Northwest where the boiled peanut seldom …
Simple Basil Buttermilk Salad Dressing
January 17th, 2008 | by Jen | published in All, Basil, Delectable Dairy, DIY Food Projects, Honorable Herbs, Lettuce, Veritable Vegetables
My thumb is ever-so-slightly more green today! Why? Because I just harvested the first lettuce plants from my winter garden! I started a mixture of heirloom red and green…
Persimmon Applesauce
January 6th, 2008 | by Jen | published in All, Apple, DIY Food Projects, Fantastic Fruits, Persimmon, Weekend Projects
Applesauce, in my eyes, is a food that has gone and come again. Tainted by years of finding plastic applesauce tubs in my grade school lunch box (when what I really wanted was soft-baked chocolate…
Three Infused Vodkas: Persimmon, Lemon, and Pear/Ginger
December 14th, 2007 | by Jen | published in All, DIY Food Projects, Fantastic Fruits, Ginger, Lemon, Most Popular, Pear, Persimmon, Succulent Spices, Weekend Projects
Lazy Sundays can’t be beat. There have been times in my life when the day of the week didn’t matter too much and time was a very fluid thing–for good or bad though, now is not one of those times, and I savor my lazy Sundays…
Chocolate Milk in the Raw
November 23rd, 2007 | by Jen | published in All, Delectable Dairy, DIY Food Projects, Weekend Projects
Have you ever tried raw milk? Before a couple weeks ago, I never had. Raw milk cheese, yes, but plain raw whole milk? I don’t believe…