Minimalism. Mindfulness. Munchies.
My very first wild food was asparagus, found while walking in the park with my itty bitty baby daughter early last summer. So wild asparagus has a special place in my heart. But that first spear was a lucky find, at the very tail end of asparagus season last year, and so, I have...
It had been raining on and off for about two days. Baby and I hadn’t been able to get out of the house much, and it was starting to show. I found an excuse for us to go out via a trip to the library and the bank. The library didn’t have what I...
To kick my first month off right, I’ve asked some of my favorite bloggers to share their secrets for being a foodie on a budget. Here, Wendy Petty of Hunger and Thirst offers advice for getting gourmet produce to your table—for free. So, you want to eat local, organic, super-nutritious foods? If you...
Oh, sweet spring! It’s come early in Colorado, with unseasonably warm temperatures and no snow this March—which is usually our snowiest month. But I was ready for a little green to start poking through the brown. I am ready to be done with winter for this year, ready for things to be growing and...
I knew that Butterpowered Bike and I would be friends when she showed me where she’d found cherry trees for foraging. I mean, that’s friendship, right there. But I knew we were really truly foodie buddies when she helped me pick—and then let me take ALL—the cherries because I told her I wanted to...
There’s something so poetic about eating flowers, as in this easy yucca blossom recipe. Butterpowered Bike mentioned fairies when we were collecting elderflowers on our foraging jaunt, and I couldn’t get the image out of my head. Tiny, dainty fairies dining on delicate white flowers. Yucca flowers are not quite so tiny, but you...
Have you ever met someone and just clicked? That’s what happened when I met Butterpowered Bike of the blog Hunger and Thirst for Life at a foodie event recently. She was talking about making wild garlic pickles, I was offering bundles of herbs from my garden. It was foodie love at first bite… er,...