Archive for the ‘herbs’ Category
8
Nov
Posted by wooddogs3 in urban homesteading, vegetable gardening, front yard gardening, edible landscaping, cooking, wild food, recipe, greens, herbs, Vegetable dinners. Tagged: greens, arugula, hortapita, backyard chickens, eggs, feeding chickens, eggshells, spinach, yeast dough, vegetarian dinner. 1 Comment
Like the British cookbook writer Nigella Lawson, I am both greedy and lazy, so I’m full of timesaving tricks for making real food in a hurry. Now if I also looked like her, that would be nice, but two out of three isn’t bad. One of my favorite time-saving tricks is to make a small [...]
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30
Aug
Posted by wooddogs3 in front yard gardening, greens, herbs, urban homesteading. Tagged: amaranth, bees, cancer, Cucurbita moschata, edible wild plants, husky, lambs-quarters, mallow, priorities, purslane, sunflowers, urban homesteading, wild birds, wild food. 1 Comment
In urban homesteading as in the rest of life, it’s never possible to know what the future holds. In early July as I was planning and starting my fall/winter garden, my very beloved husky was diagnosed with metastatic cancer and a short life expectancy. Thanks to the care of a wonderful canine oncologist he is [...]
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13
Aug
Posted by wooddogs3 in urban homesteading, vegetable gardening, front yard gardening, edible landscaping, cooking, sustainable, wild food, recipe, greens, herbs, farmers market, kitchen staples, Vegetable dinners. Tagged: greens, new mexico, wild food, wild greens, foraging, eat your weeds, lambs-quarters, pigweed, amaranth, Swiss chard, chickpeas, beans, solar cooking, solar oven, Solar Oven Society, slow cooking. Leave a Comment
Since I got a solar oven, I no longer find it difficult to cook chickpeas, and so I’m looking for new ways to use them. I especially like combinations of greens and beans, partly because these primal and earthy dishes are found all over the world wherever people need healthy cheap food, and partly because [...]
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3
Jul
Posted by wooddogs3 in urban homesteading, vegetable gardening, front yard gardening, edible landscaping, cooking, home food production, sustainable, recipe, greens, herbs, farmers market, kitchen staples, Vegetable dinners. Tagged: greens, mediterranean diet, Paula Wolfert, leafy green vegetables, sweet potato leaves, lambs-quarters, pigweed, amaranth, New Zealand spinach, Swiss chard, purslane, bruschetta, Mediterranean Grains and Greens, Paula Wolfert's World of Food, clay pot cooking, cazuela, bean pot, Chinese sand pot. 5 Comments
If you’re interested in making leafy greens an enjoyable part of your diet, I highly recommend Paula Wolfert’s book Mediterranean Grains and Greens. My favorite greens recipe, however, does not come from that book but from another of her books, Paul Wolfert’s World of Food. She calls it “marmalade of spring greens,” and it is [...]
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