Category - Food & Drink

Before breakfast, Jack and I take our morning walk. If it’s fairly dry underfoot, we do a loop in the wood. Yesterday we had a light breakfast in the wood. There’s a small area...

The other day my mum reminded me what a special treat it was to receive fresh strawberries when I was growing up. My grandmother used to bring them to us — along with a pot of...

I couldn’t resist buying the book entitled Foraged Flavor after hearing the author, Tama Matsuoka Wong, interviewed (see The Foragers posted April 10, 2013). Since it arrived, weeds...

Recently, I told John about an interview I heard on National Public Radio that I thought would interest him. The interviewee lives in New Jersey and has written a book about local weeds...

We recently got to enjoy our kitchen with the simple pleasure of having friends over for dinner. But, the evening came with a couple of challenges. Our guests did not show up empty handed...

Reading the previous posting (Kitchenette Countdown), you might think we had exhausted all the ways to cook an egg in 2012. But before the year was out, John squeezed in another egg...

As far as know I have never consumed a Ring Ding, Ho Ho, Sno Ball, or Twinkie . . . and it seems I never will. This week Hostess, the company that manufactured these products, announced it...

When I visited the allotment today I was expecting the radish crop would be finished. I was pleased to find this isn’t the case. The radishes are still good, despite the temperature...