I'm not quite sure what to call this recipe. But since it uses a medley of spices that you'll find in most Middle Eastern dishes, I'm calling it Spicy Middle Eastern Shrimp.Or we can also call it Darn Good.Or Shrimp That Rawks.Or I Can't Believe It's Not Shrimp.Nevermind.You'll need: shrimp, fresh mint, Aleppo pepper flakes,…
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Soft shell crabs are in season! "Soft shell" is just the term used when regular crabs have recently molted their outer shell. Blue crabs for example, are most common.Ideally you buy them when they're still alive and bring them…
It all began when I was watching the squirrels. This is what I do sometimes when I sit in a wicker chair with my breakfast and ponder life and the creek below.The squirrels were gnawing most voraciously on a yellow fruit, many of which had dropped to the ground.I was curious.So I wandered my way…
I got a little makeover around here! We're still working out a few kinks but there are a few new features that I want to point out now so you can start using them!My recipes page now has a visual recipe index as well as a way for you to search for recipes by ingredient.…
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…
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…
I could show you this fully finished step-by-step recipe a few months from now, [scroll down, I've added the finished steps!] but what good would that be if you had to wait many months for dandelions to come back around? So instead, I'm going to give you the recipe and show you the step-by-step up…