Category Archives: Recipes

Recipe Thursday: Mushroom Chickpea Barley Stew and Focaccia

These days we’re always looking for a quicker dinner. This is very unlike us, as generally we are a slow cooking, easy moving, enjoy the process kind of family but with the shop, our time is more frugal than it used to be. Who knows how long this will last, it is not in ourContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Mushroom Chickpea Barley Stew and Focaccia”

Recipe Thursday: Seasonal Sheetpan Roast

Fall roasting is just our favorite. We fall back on sheetpan roasting once or twice a week — in the Summer (we call it a Broil, though it’s generally just high heat roasting now that we have a true convection): we fill the shallow pan with even size pieces of young peppers, cherry tomatoes, babyContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Seasonal Sheetpan Roast”

Recipe Thursday: Summer Pasta Salad with Lemon-Mustard Dressing

I think anywhere else (besides Canada and Alaska), this might be called Spring Pasta Salad but for us, the peas come in just at the beginning of Summer. For those of us who put them in a little late and don’t have covers (ahem), we are likely only to get one batch off these vinesContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Summer Pasta Salad with Lemon-Mustard Dressing”

Recipe Thursday: Mushroom Risotto

We have the most amazing mushroom growing/selling folk at our farmer’s market (Wild Fruitings); they sell gorgeous gourmet Oyster mushrooms of many colors, Lion’s Mane, Chestnuts, Pioppino, Enoki, Trumpets, Shiitakes and probably some I’m forgetting or don’t recognize. They grow the gourmet but they also forage and offer some dried and make medicines. They alsoContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Mushroom Risotto”

Recipe Thursday: Roasted Lamb (Moroccan Mechoui) Over the Fire

Ok, this is really an inspiration from a mash-up of 2 Paula Wolfert’s recipes from her Mediterranean Claypot Cooking book. I have been a massive Wolfert fan for years and years (I’m sure I tell you this all the time) and have collected a few of her intense tomes. The Slow-Mediterranean Cookbook is really stunningContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Roasted Lamb (Moroccan Mechoui) Over the Fire”

Recipe Thursday: Apothecary

I don’t advertise myself as an herbalist or natural healer but I have been working in the research and development of healing processes for over 15 years. I’ve taken classes and workshops with renowned herbalists, alternative and holistic healers, attended conferences and worked as a natural health advisor (for over 6 years). I grow andContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Apothecary”

Recipe Thursday: Whipped Feta & Tofu Ramp Spread

Just a mere couple of weeks ago we were knee deep in the snow, and now the Forsythia is blooming, Bee Balm shoots are perking up, Fiddleheads are out and about, and the Ramps are fully leafed out. Let the foraging commence! My planted garden Nettle (yes, I had to plant Nettle here on thisContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Whipped Feta & Tofu Ramp Spread”

Recipe Thursday: Puff Pastry Dinner Hack — Savory Puff Tart

And so it came to pass that we needed to clean out the basement freezer (we already lost one in the last flood so we need to remove any future loss by cleaning out the basement entirely) and I found a frozen puff pastry I had bought for one of the many events we’ve hadContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Puff Pastry Dinner Hack — Savory Puff Tart”