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A stray tomato

Autumn has well and truly dropped here in Minnesota. This past weekend, we spent some quality time cleaning up the deck and garden. We moved a bunch of peppers ...

The sky this morning

On my commute this morning, for a few minutes, the sky was alive. I pulled over and just snapped this. Even though I didn't have time to frame this carefully, I...

Driftwood huts on the north shore

Hey, so it's been several months since I posted here, I'm not sure what the future holds, but I thought I'd share some neat pics from a recent vacation. I took ...

Fresh kimchi

I just put up a fresh jar of kimchi and thought I'd share this:...

Collards

I cut up some collards last night and while I was waiting for my mirepoix to develop, before putting the collards in the braise for 40 minutes with wine and bro...

Fusumazuke update 01

I started my faux nuka pot just over a week ago. See details here Each day after work, I take the gallon jug of water out of the bucket, then use a fork to pry ...

Fusumazuke - lacto-fermenting in wheat bran

Nukazuke are a class of Japanese pickles that have been fermented in damp, cultured rice bran. They're sometimes delicious and always interesting. Where I live,...

More turkeys came by!

So, later in the day, more turkeys came by and this dude was right outside my office window and I'm kind of proud of this shot. It isn't professional quality, b...

Turkeys enjoying the receding snow

It's spring in Minnesota and that means we're starting see patches of murky green-brown earth emerge from the snow. And the turkeys are hungry from the long win...

Cook with Us is now accepting entries for Week 1, Favorite Family Recipe

https://s19.postimg.org/s8o5tc2ar/MAHV0704.jpg Welcome to the opening week of Cook with Us. @pandamama, @offoodandart and @chefsteve are very excited to welcome...

Cook with us – March, Week 1 – Chilaquiles

There's a new cooking challenge here that I'm responding to. It's called CookWithUs and the first week is showcasing our favorite family meals. My family's favo...

Steemit Iron Chef 2018 Act 01 Round 08 : Baked Brie with Grape Compote

For this week's SIC contest the theme ingredient is grapes. I'm mostly not interested in deserts, but I was thinking about a sorbet if I could find "good" grape...

Steemit Iron Chef 2018 Act 01 Round 07 : Potato-Leek Soup - rustic, hearty, vegan

I'm finally getting a second entry in for the week! Two days ago, I made leek pakora. When it was announced that this week's theme ingredient was leeks, the fir...

Vegetable stock from kitchen scraps

Amazing vegetable stock is almost free at my house! As we cook, we keep our vegetable scraps. We have a gallon-sized ziplock in the freezer, and scraps like: on...

Steemit Iron Chef 2018 Act 01 Round 07 : Leek Pakora

Leeks! You know how every recipe for leek-dishes tells you to use the white and lightest green parts but abandon the dark green? Well screw that! The dark green...

Snowy Morning

It snowed last night and because it was warm, a lot of it stuck to the trees and formed a very beautiful drive to work. So I took a little time out to capture s...

Steemit Iron Chef 2018 Act 01 Round 06 : Mushroom Wild Rice with (veggie) sausage and miso-glazed carrots

OK! For this week of the Steemit Iron Chef contest, the theme ingredient is "the local product you will choose"! I live in the northmost USA, in a state called ...

Steemit Iron Chef 2018 Act 01 Round 05 : Peanut Curry

Each week, I enter the Steemit Iron-Chef contest. This week, the theme ingredient is nuts. I almost went for pecan pie (the trick is to use more pecans and less...

Spotlight on Pickets and Blinds

Pickets and Blinds by Kevin Allen Jr. is a crime drama game about murder in small American towns. All the players are characters who are about to commit a murde...

Steemit Iron Chef 2018 Act 1 Round 04: Ssam(bap)

So, the Steemit Iron-Chef theme ingredient this week is lettuce. That's a toughie. I mean, anyone can throw some veggies with lettuce and make a good salad, but...