Domestic
Stir Fried Cucumbers
Stir fried cucumbers make for a tasty and interesting side to any meal. Ready in just 15 minutes, these tender-crisp cukes are a great recipe to keep up your sleeve!
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Cooking skills
How To Roast Your Own Pumpkin Seeds
Getting all that pumpkin goop off of the seeds can be a little fussy, but it’s definitely worth it for this healthy, tasty snack! Use any wet or dry seasoning you like.
Domestic
Easy Refrigerator Zucchini Relish
This old fashioned sweet and spicy zucchini relish is a great way to use up that big old zucchini you found hiding in the garden.Simply make the recipe, put it in jars and pop in the fridge.
Foraged Foods
Easy Mushroom ‘Soy’ Sauce
There are many ways to preserve mushrooms, but this one may be the easiest. This sauce stays good in the fridge for months, and can be used on any number of things.
Foraged Foods
Breathtaking BBQ Maitake Mushroom
This special technique comes from Wicked Healthy (check out wickedhealthyfood.com for more amazing vegetarian recipes!) with a couple small flourishes of my own. By brining and pressing the mushroom, you end up with an extra meaty texture.
Domestic
Japanese Spinach Goma-ae
This healthy spinach side dish has a sweet, nutty flavour and goes with pretty much any meal. It is particularly well-suited as a sushi side dish.
Domestic
Leftover Risotto Arancini
Leftover risotto is never as good the next day. All the work you put into it to make it creamy, silky, and luscious is lost. Luckily leftover risotto has the perfect texture for making arancini!
Foraged Foods
Miso-Kabocha Risotto with Maitake Mushrooms
This fusion of Italian and Japanese elements work as a perfect backdrop to show off the prized Maitake or Hen of the Woods wild mushroom.
Foraged Foods
Vietnamese Bún with Puffball Mushroom
Bún is a traditional Vietnamese dish of rice vermicelli noodles topped with meat, veggies, and sometimes chopped spring rolls. It is served with nước chấm, a bracing sauce made primarily of fish sauce.
Domestic
Braised Red Cabbage with Apple
This braised red cabbage and apple dish is known as rodekool met appel in Dutch and is traditionally served with stewed meats, and is simultaneously sweet and tart.
Cooking skills
How to Can Diced Tomatoes for the Freezer
This easy instructional will show you how to preserve your summer bounty of tomatoes into a useful product you can use later. You’ll be thanking your past-self for the work done when you pop open a jar in February and feel the summer sunshine cascading out!
Baking
Garlic and Rosemary Baguette
The addition of garlic and rosemary makes this bread extra delicious! Serve with charcuterie, as a sandwich, or on its own slathered with some good quality butter.
Domestic
Dutch-Style Stamppot
Stamppot is the blanket term for mashed vegetables in the Netherlands. It is also their national dish! This stamppot is made with green curly kale, or boerenkool, and is served with a Dutch smoked sausage (rookworst or metworst).
Foraged Foods
Smoked Za’atar Puffball Mushroom
Manakish is a Levantine dish consisting of pita bread, slathered in za’atar, cheese, or minced meat and baked, almost like an Arabic pizza. Giving puffball mushrooms a similar treatment makes for seasoned crunchy on the outside, tender on the inside deliciousness!
Domestic
Chana and Moong Dal with Dill – Lentil Stew
Chana dal (or Bengal gram as it is also known) consists of brown or black chickpeas that have been hulled and split. It is one of the earliest legume crops in human record!