I can't really tell you where they came from. All I'll say is that I may or may not have smuggled them from Provence. I may or may not have loved them so much in the restaurant garden that I worked in, that I may or may not have dried the seeds on the windowsil of…
I want to share with you the strange things that are coming out of my garden.This carrot for example, which looks like a chicken:Or this scale-tipping carrot...a 1.125 pounder.There was a 1.5 pounder even, but I ate it. I turned it into carrot soup.I never think of carrot soup except in the moment that I'm eating…
Another milestone this week at Tulipwood! The gals are starting to lay eggs! Can you believe it? It feels like just a few months ago that I was posting pictures of these tiny little things, and they are now laying eggs? Well, at least one of them is.... and they are very tiny. Look at them compared to one of Lucy's…
The coolest thing I've seen in recent months...... is a father teaching his daughter how to properly clean a bird for dinner. Wanting her to understand what it is to be a meat eater and how to be a fair and honest meat eater at that. Hunting is not about male bonding in the woods anymore... it's…
Do you like my pumpkin? It was designed by a talented artist named T. Kristian Russell. In fact, it looks a lot like one of his recent works, don't you think?Or this one...It's the first pumpkin I've seen with a legitimate nose. I think it looks like Picasso... a very snazzy pumpkin.Once I pulled out…
These are some very fine treats. The kind of thing that leaves a lasting impression. The kind of thing that becomes seared into your mind the moment your teeth chomp down on that first bite and the sweet, salt, and tang begin to crawl along your taste buds. That is why they are called Devils…
In preparation for my book... I've been testing out quite a lot of recipes. These I like to call "Bananas Foster Cupcakes," because they celebrate cream and rum and cake in three lavish bites. (There's cream inside!)I've discovered that to get a truly unbiased opinion on a recipe, it is best to set it in the…
Loretta has been through a thing or two. Even though she doesn't live with the other chickens, she has stories to tell. After she was beaten up a few times by Buster, she had to start living closer to people, so that we could keep an eye on her and so the Rhode Island reds…
This is my French friend Robert. Doesn't he look like Ernest Hemingway? For many weeks we spent Saturdays together at the french farmers market where he tended to his pot of rice. The rice was his priority, second only to the box of wine he carefully unloaded from the truck along with a portable refrigerator…