Dork Chow

I swiped this quiz from the Sierra club. The grading will take you over there.

Are you the Iron Chef of your household? Do you enjoy slicing, dicing, deglazing, and braising?
If so, did know that some kitchens and the cuisine they produce are greener than others?
No, we’re not talking about a cucumber-colored Cuisinart [...]

If you follow this blog you might have seen the Running the Numbers posting that uses plastic bags as the basis for art /social commentary, or the even more frightening Quest to the Plastic Bag Island. It’s sobering. I have been using reusable grocery bags most of the time for quite a [...]

Late October Farmers’  Market.  Just had to bring you some nice eye candy before all the leaves fell off and everything went soggy.
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I must have found over a dozen different mushrooms last Saturday.  I found   wolf farts but they were all passe.   The edible ones I found last week were pure white on the inside. Today’s catch were full of olive colored spores. (Yuck.) I found  darker brown ones that were still [...]

Black-eyed pea salad
Some people don't like black-eyed peas because of their …
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There are plenty of fresh local peppers and onions and even still a few tomatoes left around here this time of year.  This is a high protein salad with plenty of raw goodness and it’s vegan if you [...]

While running today I found two more rather dilapidated shaggymanes (see my earlier posting on this) and a whole bunch of what I believe to be nice young lycoperdon pyriforme or wolf-fart puffballs.    They smell good, though not so good as the shaggymanes.  These guys are definitely on the way to [...]

Shaggy Mane Mushroom

Cool thing! I was running in MacDonald Forest near the old growth trailhead and I spotted some fresh young shaggy mane mushrooms popping  right up directly on the gravel road!  That is so typical for shaggy manes — they can push up through concrete and then they are the most fragile thing [...]

Here is an easy and tasty way to use those zucchinis that are piling up around August and September.
The video is courtesy of manjulaskitchen.com The modification I made to the recipe was to make it vegan by substituting Promise for the butter.

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Last spring I posted about delicious and nutritious salad built from young red amaranth leaves. Well now I have tons of showy red fully mature plants loaded with tiny shiny black seeds. And I will give seeds to anyone free for the asking. If you want some, post a [...]

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My neighbor’s plum tree just gave me a gift. For dried plums firm-fleshed fruits with a stone that dislodges easily work the best. They are sometimes called prunes, even though to me “prune” implies a plum that has been dried. Find the “seam” [...]