I thought some of you cooks would want to experiment with distilling your own food essential oils and hydrosols.
While looking at a reference today on facebook for distilling your own essential oil, an elaborate set up for making the distilling unit r
Read more…I have a very large patch of sugar cane growing. Any ideas on how to go about extracting the juice?
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Cooking and listening to the radio, I just like the 'sound' of that :-)
Anyway, I posted a newsletter with links to Martha Stewart's site with a whole bunch of herb-infused recipes for food and beverages. I also listed a link to an Old Time
Read more…http://time-cook.ru/konservirovanie/ do a google search with this link, then hit translate before you bring it up. There is a whole section on canning recipes. This is a Russian cookbook and all the recipes are just fascinating me. I want to fin
Read more…Does anyone here have experience growing and using roselles (Hibiscus sabdariffa)?
I planted several this summer and they are starting to produce many calyxes (the fruit that many confuse for the flower) for me right now. I have not tried eating the
Read more…Does anyone make wine? I think that tomatillos would make a great sparkling wine or sparkling non-alch wine. Anyone think this is a good idea?
Read more…This was one of those rail-road track kind of topics - one post on Facebook was about 16 ways to use whey, which included lemonade whey (something I read some years ago but never checked out). The lemonade takes advantage of the lacto-fermentation o
Read more…Has anyone had and knows how to make chicken stock that that is clear, but very thick in consistency? The fact that it is clear is telling me there is no flour or thickeners in it. I am thinking maybe this stock is make with chicken feet? I was ju
Read more…Thanks to our friend, Renu, we have been gifted with some incredibly huge Armenian Cucumbers! So what to do with these beauties? Since we had 6 of these monsters, I decided to do something a little out of the box...
You may have heard of the "Mock A
Hi All,
I have been considering making watermelon rind pickles using the technique discussed here on VPA for sour pickles since it worked so well. Has anyone tried the watermelon with the LF process? I'm going to post this on the main forum also.
I f
Read more…Hi Folks,
I tripped across an excellent article / blog on rendering fat for use in baking and cooking. While I have never gotten around to doing any rendering directly (more about that below*) rendering fat from meat products is an old tradition and
Read more…OK - I was so excited to find this, just in time to concentrate the last of the oranges for the season!!
Instructions
I just got my new Mental Floss magazine and it mentioned two interesting veggies, kohlarabi and romenesco. Has anyone had any experience growing them? It seems to me they will be a winter veggie but any info is greatly appreciate. thanks!
Read more…Can anyone give me some tips on foraging wild foods in and around Phoenix? I've just moved from New York where I used to forage for berries, wild greens, etc. I'm very interested in places to forage prickly pear fruit, or just sources for the fruit
Read more…There was a recent post from someone looking for chiltepins, and it made me think of posting this salsa. This salsa is only for those who like really hot food -- I've cut way back on the original recipe's quantity of chiltepins and it's still killer
Read more…I am looking for a source for ACHIOTE paste, seeds, or shrubs. Also known as annata or lipstick plant, the paste made from the seeds is the signature ingredient in dishes from the Yucutan peninsula. Anybody have a source for me?
Read more…I hung my garlic harvest out to dry yesterday. Some of them are very small and so I'm considering shucking and sun drying to grind for garlic granules. FYI they need to be hung in the shade, so I used our navel orange tree :-)
Now that we have already hit the above-100 mark on the thermometer, I have been wanting something a little more thirst-quenching than plain water when coming in from doing yard work and have been making slushies :] Because I bottled a lot of lemon s
Read more…Has anybody used it? I bought some at Urban Farm Nursery and used it yesterday. What a wonderful herb! Paired it with Spicy Basil in a crustless egg white quiche with spinach, asparagus, tomatoes, and parmesan cheese. I really didn't want to shar
Read more…I saw this I forgot where and marked it and then came back to it because I realized the idea would alo work well just freezing the jars.
http://tastykitchen.com/recipes/canning/lemonade-concentrate-e28093-from-scratch/
This recipe is really simple and
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