Rose Infused Honey
I have been really wanting to make some floral petal infused honey for a while now and John Gallagher of Learning Herbs shared a post the other day that pushed the want over the edge especially when combined with that fact that a friend of mine was going away for a couple of weeks and […]
Continue readingWhat do I do with my herbs? Drying
Probably the most common way to preserve herbs is to dry them. It is easy, inexpensive and retains a higher percentage of the plants natural oils. I managed to film a video with my camera but it is too large upload so we will have to go with the still picture below. It shows all […]
Continue readingWhat do I do with my herbs? Freezing
The herbs are definitely liking all this heat, so before they squeeze each other out of the basket they are sharing, it was time for another “haircut”. Collect the herbs you would like to freeze from your garden, thanking them as you go. I will leave the question of washing up to you. If they […]
Continue readingRhubarb Chiffon Flan
I hope you have been following along with the last two posts so that this one makes sense. To quickly recap if that is not the case, I made rhubarb lemonade syrup the other day and discovered that the “left over” puree was tasty and needed a better end than the garbage. I made a […]
Continue readingLemon Rhubarb Turnovers
Yesterday, I posted Rhubarb Lemonade Syrup and talked a little about making full use of the gifts we get from the earth. After I was finished making the syrup, this was left over, the now sweet and lemony rhubarb “puree”. I tasted a little bit and “Mikey liked it”. My brain got working and this […]
Continue readingRhubarb Lemonade Syrup (the other pink lemonade)
This past week in My Kitchen Witch Alphabet, I wrote about protecting Gaia’s bounty and part of that is making sure that things are used before they go bad. Composting is another way of keeping the community earth healthy; a place for food past its best but once something has been picked or purchased, it […]
Continue readingWhat do I do with my herbs? Baking Powder Biscuits
This year I was the very thankful recipient of one of Jean’s herb baskets. From left to right it has oregano, thyme, rosemary, chives and parsley. Jean popped in some tarragon as well but it is not ready for any harvesting. The downside with having happy herbs is that they grow and before things get out […]
Continue readingOrange, Cranberry, Almond Sweet Breads
Friends of mine were visiting from Nova Scotia last week, on a tour to promote their new cd. More on that in a bit. Robert had commented on a previous My Kitchen Wand post that he hoped he would get some of what I was posting about when he was back on the west coast […]
Continue readingMuddled Lemonade Popsicles
With warmer temperatures around the corner, I thought it was time for some outside food fun. Where I live there is even a long weekend starting to help the fun along and after the post earlier this week about flavoured sugars and zesting you need something to do with all that juice. I promised this […]
Continue readingZesting & Flavoured Sugars
Yesterday I posted a cookie recipe that includes a dusting of sugar while the cookies are warm out of the oven. It got me thinking about flavoured (my Canadian is showing) sugars and that led on to a couple of additional points every magical pantry can benefit from. First off, let’s chat about zesting. The […]
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