Live Qualitarian: Eat Well
Before there was high quality tonic with low sugar, we bought Cinchona bark, which is the source of quinine – the medicine that treats malaria and is the active ingredient of tonic. In April of 2015, I found ground cinchona power at Rebecca’s – a natural pharmacy in Boulder. Lime
Cut both ends of the pepper. Slip the meat away from the stem, set aside. Discard core and seeds, and save the small ring that looks like the one you removed from the top. Now you have a ring of clean pepper read to use in any recipe. Slide into
New Year’s Eve for 2014 Changing to 2015 For starters we made potato pancakes on which we put brussel sprouts that had been roasted in the oven with small, torn pieces of dry aged (preserved meat) bresola sliced thin from Spanelli’s Italian Market. We drank the cider we’d made earlier
Making Hard Cider From local trees around Lakewood, with friends and some home-made equipment we chopped apples and fermented the juice in carboys we had once used for beer making.
Nasturtiums are edible peppery tasting flowers so they are perfect on a breakfast of green chili and fried eggs. Recipe for Green Chili: 1 T Olive Oil Onion, 1/4 of 1, chopped & 1 garlic clove, minced New Mexico green chilies seeded, peeled and chopped roughly 1 t cumin 1
Steuart has a standard bread recipes and had a bowl of dough waiting to be baked in the morning following a party at our neighbor’s house across the alley – a pizza party making use of the neighbor’s wood-fired oven. After a meal of many different topped pizzas, the
REvised and reMade Since writing this story in 2011, I’ve made my recipe below with the 6 separated eggs and I haven’t loved the results. I want a dependable version of this for times I don’t want chocolate, don’t have butter, and have left over orange rinds. My go-to olive
Clear beef stock in easy to use cubes. That’s the final product of a long process — not a hard one — that is the basis of some many great recipes, and that’s beef stock. Please feel free to read the post I wrote last winter about making beef stock
Hot days. So many tomatoes. I picked the first few plum tomatoes. We have nine (4 SanMarzano Redorta; 5 Opalka) plants in all and we hope they will make enough paste to last us all year. We’ve never grown the Redorta, and the Opalka were grown from seeds I saved
Simply Stuffed Red Snapper with Fresh Herbs Catch or buy a whole fish. If purchased you can ask the fish monger to scale and gut the fish which will make it easy to stuff. Wash inside, you’re ready to stuff. Use fresh cut herbs from garden (or package): tarragon, dill,