Recipe

Preserving Peppers

Consider, for a moment,ย the sweet pepper. No other plant demands so much, gives so little, yet keeps us coming back…

Foraging

Experiments with Madrone Bark Tea

Not much about cooking excites me more than experimenting with a new ingredient. I get especially jazzed when that ingredient…

Charcuterie

How to Make Venison Ham

I present to you: mocetta. It was my first-ever dry-cured ham, and it does not come from a pig. This…

Recipe

Pheasant Escabeche

I’ve made a lot of escabeche in my time, and read scores of recipes from all over the world. This…

Charcuterie

Italian Head Cheese

Coppa di testa. In France it is Fromage de tete. In England, it’s called brawn. All decent enough names; but…

Recipe

Elderflower Syrup and Cordial

May is a wonderful month. Flowers are everywhere, fishing is getting into gear and the summer garden is laden with…

How-To (DIY stuff)

How to Make Paprika at Home

Why bother making homemade paprika? Fair question. After all, the Spanish and Hungarians are better at it than we ever…

Recipe

Green Garlic and Pink Pork

This dish is my little way of protesting an opinion piece that appeared in the New York Times recently suggesting…

Recipe

Growing and Cooking Cardoons

Cardoons are slowly becoming more common in markets here in the United States, which is great. Because I’ve been growing…

Recipe

Corned Antelope, Anyone?

I’ve always loved corned beef and its cousin pastrami, especially in Reuben sandwiches.ย As a child I always wondered how in…

Charcuterie

How to Make Blood Sausage

If you want a blood sausage recipe that’s approachable, this is the one. It is a Portuguese blood sausage that…