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Foraging - Failures, Experiments, & I-Hate-You-You're-So-Awesome
There have been a couple of items that I've mentioned in passing that were never brought up again. As you can probably guess, there's a good reason. Unsuccessful experiments and sometimes just...
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Cream of Everything
Part of the experimenting business is also trying to use recipes that, regardless of whether or not they turn out 100% amazing, the recipe will still mostly guarantee deliciousness. Cream of Vegetable...
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Devil in the (Booze) Details
The wonderful pine-y smell of Devil's Club instantly made me think of gin. Read into that what you will, but as soon as I started picking buds I wanted to make some gin cocktails with Devil's Club.A...
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Delicious Devil's Pesto & Halibut Cheeks
Working through my last batch of devil's club, I decided to do a classic foraged green goodie: pesto. I picked up some big ole halibut cheeks from Superbear and got to work.Devil's Club Pesto &...
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Vacationing with Poke!
We just got back from a 10 day Hawaiian vacation around the Big Island in a VW camper van. Neither of us have been before and man, did we luck out into a GREAT first trip.Now that we're back in town,...
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Goose Tongue (Greens) Sauté
Growing up in Southeast, one foraged goodie I've always been familiar with is goose tongue. A Southeast Alaska childhood spent boat-camping and kayaking is a childhood spent munching on goose tongue...
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Beach Asparagus By Any Other Name - 2 Quick Recipes
Building up to mushroom season (I seriously am just ITCHING to get my fingers on some fungus) has been interesting. Time filled with mostly foraging experiments. Lot's of unknowns with a few items that...
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Head to Tail Salmon Stock
Hooooo doggy! Knowing that this has been a banging year for king salmon (the troll king opener has one of the largest targets in years) we went out with my dad for his maiden voyage in his new skiff....
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The Best Pickle - Beach Asparagus
I know that's a big claim, but seriously, one of the many many names for beach asparagus is pickleweed (aka samphire, sea beans, sea asparagus, salicornia, glasswort, etc).Previously I posted about...
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Beach Greens & Lovage - Kimchi & Kimchi Soup
I had a couple of experiments that took some time, which meant by the time I was ready to try again, we were past that time of year. As this blog is a resource for myself as well, I figured I'd go...
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True Blue Blueberries - Chutney & Pancakes!
We're smack in the middle of a GREAT blueberry year here in Juneau. The low sea-level berries are huge and ready and with a little more sun we'll have lower alpine berries to pick next. I went out...
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Put a Fish in It - Blueberry Pickled Salmon
As I mentioned in a previous post, reading through Plants That We Eat has been an interesting way to play with ideas for experiments. One short paragraph got me scheming. It included the sentence "Any...
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Mushroom Season - Late Post
The below post was one I wrote before I headed out of town for the last month and a half. We're now actually at the very very tail-end of mushroom season, but as I'm using this blog as a resource for...
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Coconut Sweet Potato Salmon Chowder Magic
Don't like sweet potatoes? Don't like fishy fish or fishy chowder? Have a piece of last year's salmon from the freezer which is smelling a leeeeeeetle fishy? I've got the thing for you.If you remember,...
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Cranberry, Like Buttah - Late Post
Another late post as I think the highbush cranberry season is most likely over. I picked and cooked up my highbush cranberry butter and highbush cranberry ketchup in late August.When I first told my...
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Getting Serious About Deer
This is my year to get my first deer. I know it. I've always loved venison. My father, and sometimes my brother, went hunting every year when I was growing up and the result was a freezer full of...
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My First Deer: The Story, Lessons, & Processing
My Deer StoryWe were on the ferry riding home from Hoonah and a friend of my dad's had heard about my first deer. He came over with some buddies to see if I had a picture to show. Passing around my...
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Perserving Hedgehog Mushrooms
Surprise, surprise, turns out golden chantrelles and hedgehogs love the same kind of woods as Sitka black tail deer!Last week amidst deer hunting we collected a couple of huge bags of mushrooms. We...
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Venison Pâté
I'm not a liver or a pâté person. However, I am a yummy food person, and someone who will always try anything at least once. I'm also the kind of person who 100% believes in using as much of an...
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Smoked Salmon Chowder
This was a delicious and simple meal, hearty, not fishy, and perfect for a cold blustery Juneau Sunday. If you've got some hot-smoked salmon on hand, either occupying the back of your freezer or in a...
View ArticleA Thanksgiving Love Letter
I have no photographic evidence for you to drool over (I made a decision to spend the evening enjoying rather than cataloging), but believe me when I tell you that our Thanksgiving dinner was very...
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Perfect Venison Loin with Red Wine Reduction
Not gonna lie, cooking a nice cut of meat scares me. Mostly because I get so nervous about messing it up. Because when you overcook a beautiful (and if it's beautiful it was probably expensive) cut of...
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Irish Cream = Christmas
Last night I went over to my parents' house to decorate the Christmas tree and make sugar cookies. Of course, we had my mom's Irish cream. To me, that's how Christmas tastes. So I thought I would go...
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Goals For the New Year
ForagingMy goal of broadening my foraging in 2014 was a big success, and based off of lessons learned (i.e. how much I hate cleaning fiddleheads), I’ve been working on a hit list of things I want to...
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Corned Venison & Cauliflower Hash
Two weeks before we headed to Hoonah for our deer hunt, I started doing research on all the fun food I was going to try. Hank Shaw's Corned Venison was at the top of the list. Over this last weekend...
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