It seems like Christmas is a time to wear ugly sweaters, celebrate the white elephant, and cook things you’ve never attempted before. I have done all of the above in the last week. In this episode of, “It might be totally gross,” I decided to bake a pie, against my better judgment. I am notContinue reading “Honey-poached quince & apple pie”
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Clean slate
Our Americorp team at Noyo Food Forest is amazing. With their help, we’re totally re-organizing the farm at Fort Bragg High School and designing a system that will be streamlined and efficient enough for me to manage it part time, the way my job was always designed. Its so cathartic and amazing to me toContinue reading “Clean slate”
Thanksgiving
This was a really sweet and lovely year. It’s going to be the last year having Thanksgiving in my family home, by the ocean in Gualala. My mom bought the house in the late 70’s, and it’s the only family home we’ve ever had. My Aunt is our next door neighbor, and my Grandma isContinue reading “Thanksgiving”
December 1st
Sarah and I are now entering out 12th month of our local eating adventure. This morning as I sipped mint and nettle tea and ate left over mashed potatoes my mom grilled crispy under the broiler, I thought about a questions my mom, my dad, my grandma, and pretty much everyone else has asked me recently:Continue reading “December 1st”
Farm to Table Harvest Feast: A Benefit for Mendocino County School Gardens
We are delighted to bring the Farm to Table Dinner experience to our inland community this fall, to help keep school gardens open throughout the county. Eat Mendocino Presents a Farm to Table Harvest Feast Hosted at Black Oak Coffee Roasters (476 N. State Street, Ukiah) Saturday November 9th, 2013 Join us for a 100%Continue reading “Farm to Table Harvest Feast: A Benefit for Mendocino County School Gardens”
Corn Harvest this Past Weekend
Originally posted on Mendocino Meats:
Many thanks to everyone who helped us harvest the Oaxacan Green dent corn in Potter Valley on Saturday! We had 15 wonderful people from all over the county join us on a beautiful fall afternoon. Everyone was extremely helpful and we harvested about half of the Oaxacan Green corn. The…
A recipe for vulnerability
We are in the final stretch of the year and when people ask how it’s going right now, my response is that these last three months may be the hardest yet, and on some levels I’m totally over it. It’s harvest season and, yes, food is abundantly available and we’ve gotten really good at sustainingContinue reading “A recipe for vulnerability”
Getting it done: world’s easiest tomato sauce
Originally posted on My Ukiah:
When I research recipes for preserving food, I find so many refined options. And by refined, I mean complicated. They call for a long list of ingredients and a zillion steps. While I appreciate that these exist, and that people exist who like to make them (people that I wish…
Birthday Dinner at the Mendo Bistro
How August did fly! Summer’s trials are the inverse of winter’s; instead of putting all of our energy into searching for food, you must deal with the overwhelming abundance of fruit, cucumbers, squash and tomatoes. I learned how to do a bunch of new things, out of middle-of-the-night fear that anything would rot in myContinue reading “Birthday Dinner at the Mendo Bistro”
Roadside foraging: finding food in the most unexpected places
Truly, I have missed all of you. I needed a little break after July’s blog-a-thon so I spent a couple days alternatively doing a deep clean of my apartment and watching the entire season of Firefly. And now I feel so behind; it’s amazing how much can happen in just a couple of days inContinue reading “Roadside foraging: finding food in the most unexpected places”
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