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Summer garden gazpacho
Two weeks ago while visiting Noel and Danielle at Black River, I picked up a forty pound box of #2 cucumbers that were going to be composted. According to the North Carolina Cucumber Outline, the...
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Preserving knowledge
I opened my first jar of homemade vinegar dill pickles, one of the quarts I put up a few weeks ago from the Black River Organic Farm cucumbers. The first pickle out of the jar was nice and crisp, if...
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Potato scallion pancakes
These are the days when potatoes are in season and abundant. We’ve been eating pounds of yukons and red potatoes each week, and I’ve been trying to figure out some other ways to eat them besides the...
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Ginger scrap kimchi
In an effort to incorporate more “waste” into my diet, I find myself scrutinizing the scraps, trimmings and ugly produce that I throw in the compost bucket at work. Some of the items are still good on...
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Basic rice pudding
The rice and honey breakfast is great, but I’m finding that there isn’t always enough time to cook rice before work in the morning. With a 30 minute bicycle commute to factor in, 15 minutes of waiting...
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Roadside peaches part two – The Canning
For the quarts of peach halves – 1 – You can use a “syrup” to can whole or half fruits or you can simply use water. Sugar has no preserving qualities and is used mainly for taste. I decided to use...
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Mint and honey iced tea
Tea is out of my 100 mile range, as is coffee and nearly every other caffeinated beverage known to exist. Before starting this experiment I drank a lot of coffee. I loved coffee; the taste, the smell,...
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Making sauerkraut
Fermentation is something that I only recently began to appreciate and learn about. Since picking up the books Wild Fermentation and Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning, I have been taking on...
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Spaghetti squash garbage plate
I am originally from Western New York, specifically from the small town of Elba located half way in between Buffalo and Rochester. During college, trips to Rochester usually consisted of either a trip...
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Sourdough pancakes
One of the first things I did when I started this project was bike down to Stoneground Bakery to ask for a bit of sourdough starter. Their starter has been alive for at least a year and has acquired...
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Kudzu blossom jelly
I’ll just say it; kudzu sucks. If you have ever had to pull it out of a field or garden then you know what I mean. Kudzu (Pueraria montana) is the vine that ate the South, and it is really hard to...
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Assignment: Apple Sauce
Dear Reader – I have an assignment for you and me. We are going to enter the mainstream food waste river, together. We are going to pick a grocery store in our neighborhood, we are going to approach...
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Waste stream: Day one
The beginning of waste stream week was made a bit easier by the semi-annual Food Fair at Tidal Creek. I grabbed a few free samples of some breakfast cereal and a jar of cherry jam as well as a few...
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Sourdough pumpkin hickory nut muffins
Sourdough starter is good for other things besides sourdough pancakes. Since I found a banged up pie pumpkin, I figured I would try to come up with a recipe using baked pumpkin along with the starter...
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Apple pie from bruised apples
I have made enough chunky apple sauce from bruised and scavenged apples to last until spring. This Thanksgiving I used the apple sauce as the filling for a quick pie. Last week my friend Mike gave me...
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Bok choy coleslaw
Cabbage is in season, and I am trying to figure out new ways to use the vegetable. Chinese cabbage is somewhat easier to use than head cabbage and often it is quicker to work with. This is a fast way...
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Bread success – no knead sourdough
After discussing my bread problems on a previous post, I received quite a few helpful tips from readers and friends. El at Fast Grow the Weeds sent me a link to a no-knead bread recipe from the New...
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Upside down turkey
// ]]> This past week the store started carrying meat from Rainbow Meadow Farms, a family farm right at the 100 mile mark in Snow Hill, NC. The first delivery consisted of a dozen pastured turkeys....
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Beef and cabbage stew
I used to make the best vegan seitan stew, modified from several recipes I used to use for regular beef stew. Now that I am back to being an omnivore, I was looking to make a more seasonal stew...
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Shepherd’s pie
Back in November, I had some Shepherd’s (Shepard’s) Pie off the hot bar at Chatham Marketplace. It was pretty much the most amazing thing I have ever eaten…that contained meat. I emailed their chef to...
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