I spent hours weeding yesterday. I think it was approximately 400 degrees out. There were four of us weeding my great-aunt's former vegetable garden at Tulipwood that I ambitiously thought we should "plant" this year. All of it. I don't think anyone has ever successfully completed the task of taming all of that garden. It…
I have a thing for purslane. I think I inherited it from my grandmother. She is just obsessed with it. Whenever I visit she says, "have you seen any purslane in the garden?"
It is such an intriguing plant, purslane. For one, it is everywhere, in many countries, from the sidewalk cracks in the cities, to…
I have a pretty nutty week ahead. In the span of four hours I'm going to be transported from rural Arkansas where I have been hiding out and have had to take desperate measures for an internet connection....to the meatpacking district of New York City where the internet and just about everything else is fast.…
It begins with an Amish man. Like most of my stories do.
Okay fine it doesn't begin with him, it begins with a 5 pound sack of potatoes that we purchased at a run down store in a vacant town across from this abandoned house that I really want to buy and fix up but am…
I had quite the 4th of July weekend. It began with a long road trip from Austin to Arkansas. I drove the entire span of Arkansas and I marveled at how different it is depending on where you are in the state. It was purty country.
The weekend can best be described as Foodapalooza. There have…
In case you missed it, or if by some small chance you don't know about The Pioneer Woman, (is there anyone left on the planet that doesn't know about The Pioneer Woman? I think they even frequent her site from the space station) I posted a lovely recipe for one of my favorite salads --…
The roses are in season. That sounds funny to say the roses are "in season" but I suppose everything is in season at one point or another, everyone and everything has a season, some longer than others. We have a rose arbor at Tulipwood, my great grandfather built it after he bought Tulipwood from the…
I love eating wild foods which you can probably tell by now.
Also, fried dough is delicious.
So is amaretto.
I had read about elderflower fritters in the process of making elderflower syrup and I just had to know more.
Edible earthy tasting flowers, amaretto flavored batter, powdered sugar... let's go!
It begins with flour, lemon zest, 2 eggs, vanilla,…
The elderflowers are blooming. This is good on many levels. For one, flowers are just a prelude to berries. And berries are just a prelude to jelly. And elderflower jelly is something that my grandmother made as a child with her mother. I'm going to make some and bring it to Grandma Pellegrini.
Now that the…