Yes, episode 1. Don’t get it? Don’t blame you. This series [Field to Fire] is going to strictly be about exploring regional ingredients, and preparing them a couple ways outdoors. Same format. Every time. I liked the idea, but a major problem with it is that it excluded other fun content that I’d normally shoot and get involved with. So … Read More
Episode 25: Cellar Food
Strange. It’s mid-December, the soil’s frozen, plants toast – but counterintuitively, this time of year is one of the best times of year food-wise. The freezers are full of a variety of meats, fruits, stocks, lard, and more. The wine cellar’s full of apple wines, ciders, and dry cured pork and game, while the root cellar is an exciting world … Read More
Reject Pickled Carrots: Another Reason to ‘Work for Food’
Just when I thought I’d posted about as much as one needed to about pickled carrots… My wife and I have been helping out Green Eggs & Ham lately with their labor crunch – heading out to the farm when we can arrange sitters to help bag produce for the market, harvest carrots like crazy, or whatever else they need … Read More
Pickled Onions with Wild Thyme & Bay
With a pretty heatlhy crop of onions in the garden – the best and biggest I’ll have grown, well, ever – my mind has started drifting towards pickled onions. I got the notion that I should start making these when they were the first bit I’d long for when tying into a jar of the pickled whitefish we made a … Read More
Pickled Carrots
I was short-of-breath-giddy to get this jar put together. Since I was a kid, I could pretty much pass on pickles – pickled cucumbers that is, but not these. Pickled carrots, in my little world, are in an elite class of their own. And baby carrots, they top that elite class. It just so happens that I married a lady … Read More