Even before the pandemic happened and all the restaurants were forced to close and life ceased to be as it was, I had cooked and baked almost everything we ate. Besides the meals themselves, I made lots of kitchen staples: loaves of flax-laden sourdough, almond walnut granola, jars of spicy salsa and sweet marmalade…delicious things …
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getting my squirrel on.
A few years ago during a road trip, a mouse got into our trunk and made a home for a few nights. He slept in the instant oats, nibbled on the stump of a muffin, picked open a bag of corn chips but didn’t eat the chips themselves – and most interestingly, ate a whole …
it’s all sourdough love, baby.
Bread was among one of the first things I ever baked, and it was a strange, mysterious and incredibly rewarding experience. Watching the yeast dissolve and grow foamy in sugary water, then the springy aliveness of the dough – it was all so new and exciting. Enamoured with my new hobby, I even wrote a …
lettuce out!
We are attempting to grow organic baby salad mix from seed in an old wooden drawer that has been propped up on our apartment window sill. So far, little tendrils have shot up! Here’s to hoping that they continue to flourish so we can have some truly local salads this summer!
seeds of change.
If the ginger doesn’t work out, at least I have little nibs of parsley that are starting to grow! It is amazing and humbling to watch the transformation of nature, especially when it happens in a little clay pot on my windowsill. Thanks Momma Earth!
wait and see.
Hot off the success of replanting store-bought green onions, I have stuck a nub of store-bought ginger root into some soil. We shall see if anything comes of it.
me so proud!
LOOOOOK!!!! In two weeks, the green onions that I replanted have grown to be almost their original size! I’m so happy and proud of them! I look forward to snipping them into salads and omelettes and the like, while whispering loving words to encourage them to regrow. Happy day!
spring is in our kitchen!
Or at the very least, spring onions (also known as green onions or scallions, if you please). In an effort to encourage growth and new things and all that fun spring-y stuff, I attempted to plant a bundle of organic green onions that I picked up from the grocery store! I made sure to choose …