Month: July 2016

Kale Salad with Honeyed Shallots and Plums

Kale Salad with Honeyed Shallots and Plums

  Another salad from Pascale Beale who I had the pleasure of meeting and experiencing her cooking class last fall.  This seemed like a good salad for the season as plums are beginning to roll in and at least some greens are holding their own. 

Carolina Gold Rice Grits Cakes

Carolina Gold Rice Grits Cakes

  All rice is not equal.   I have had creamy rice before, but this was another branch in the tree of amazing grains. People from Anson Mills in South Carolina were at the Seed Savers Exchange Annual Conference last weekend, and beforehand they offered to mail 

Broccomole

Broccomole

  Last weekend we ventured up to the old haunts of Minneapolis to help my dear friend Julie JAO with an evening of speed painting performance in her studio.  Some of you may have seen her speed painting the signature stick figures but now she’s moved 

Lemon-zest Ade with Szechuan Pepper

Lemon-zest Ade with Szechuan Pepper

  In the Upper Midwest of this hemisphere we’ve had a lovely reprieve with mild temperatures this week, but the mercury will be rising soon and we know many of you south of us are scorching.  Time for a little refreshing break.  This is an