I can’t say for sure what possessed me to decide to make homemade tofu. Most likely it’s because I’ve heard tofu called both ‘one of the most natural and healthful’ as well as ‘one of the most processed and adulterated’…
Weekend Projects
Homemade Tofu
May 1st, 2008 | by Jen | published in All, Around the World, DIY Food Projects, Farming, Gardening, & Food Preservation, Legumes, Most Popular, Veritable Vegetables, Weekend Projects
Blood Orange Marmalade with a Hint of Rosemary
April 8th, 2008 | by Jen | published in All, Fantastic Fruits, Farming, Gardening, & Food Preservation, Lemon, Orange, Preserves and Pickles, Weekend Projects
Citrus season is nearly always bountiful around northern California. On the days that I ride my bike to work I count no fewer than 30 orange and lemon trees drooping under the weight of their own fruit. Once I was tempted…
How to Freeze Homemade Biscuits
March 22nd, 2008 | by Jen | published in All, Farming, Gardening, & Food Preservation, Grand Grains, Most Popular, Weekend Projects
I *love* homemade, fresh from the oven biscuits. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, with tea or an afternoon snack, freshly baked biscuits go with so many things. A typical biscuit recipe makes between 16 and 24 biscuits…
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
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…
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 …
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…
Gooey Chocolate Cherry Mint and Oatmeal Cookies
December 8th, 2007 | by Jen | published in All, Sweets and Desserts, Weekend Projects
Along the bicycle path I sometimes take on my way to work there is a twenty foot long clump of wild mint, growing untamed, tended by no one, slowly edging out native grasses lining the pathway…
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…
