foraging

Honey from a Weed: Simple Rice or Risotto with Dandelion (or other Greens)

It is weed season. Dandelions make me hunger for a simple dish I first read in Honey From a Weed, a cookbook I’ve continued to enjoy for over thirty years. The elemental Macedonian dish morphs into a splendid risotto.

Found Idea on a Building Wall (Forage Ideas like Mushrooms)

We are ALWAYS on the lookout for ideas that we can apply…somewhere in our life. This snazzy pattern we spotted on the side of a building sent us dreaming.

Foraging & Feasting’s Agua Fresca and Other Wild Recipes

Foraging & Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook by Dina Falconi, illustrated by Wendy Hollender, will enable you to actually cook with the many abundant, common wild foods hiding in plain sight, or available at your farmer’s market.

Linden Season’s Spellbinding Fragrance (and Tea)

Today after a rain shower, the breeze brought the scent of Linden trees in bloom in the park across the way. Every year I wait for this brief few days when the neighborhood seems intoxicated with the honeyed perfume. It reminds me of the fragrant tea that can be made from the blossoms and leaf bracts,…

Foraging Fallen Trees for DIY’s

Not long after I dragged the tree sculpture home, I went back into the park to see what was happening with the huge, ancient 3-foot-in-diameter oak that Hurricane Sandy brought down. The parks people had been cutting it up — terrible to see. They just sawed it apart into chunks to chip; think of the…

hurricane sandy: strange beauty amidst destruction

This morning, I went into Marcus Garvey Park to check out the damage Hurricane Sandy did to the huge old trees. They mean a lot to this part of Harlem, as most of the neighborhood hangs out under during the temperate months. Several trees were down, whole root systems turned on end, including one oak…

ramp supper 2011 (with how-to + recipe)

We’ve been getting emails from friends who are on their way down to the ramp supper in Helvetia, West Virginia – ramps being the pungent wild leek that grows throughout the Appalachian and Catskill mountains. We wrote about the supper this time last year, when we were headed to Helvetia ourselves, to the feast served…

foraging for ‘REAL’: ramps etc with recipe

This weekend, I will take a few days off to go down to West Virginia to the Ramp Supper in Helvetia, West Virginia, a feast served family style in the community hall by the Farm Women’s Association – ham, beans, cornbread, slaw, applesauce, hash browns, ramps raw and cooked. Depending on the weather, the raw…

want to be a: hunter angler gardener cook?

Of late we are smitten with a rather homely blog whose content is so good, and its straightforwardness so compelling, that it overcomes its strangely distracting design and ads for cutting down belly fat. Hunter Angler Gardener Cook is Hank Shaw‘s site about being just that: “I fish. I dig earth, raise plants, live for food and…