Tag: <span>lambs quarters</span>

Fir and Curly Dock Chocolate Chip Cookies

Not all recipe adaptations work out.  An attempt at replacing corn flour with curly dock seed in a gnochi recipe, failed to hold the dough together after the 6 hour rest period.  Considering all the original recipe was, was a cup of flour, a cup of corn flour, a pinch …

Curly Dock Chocolate Chip Cookies

Yes, I made chocolate chip cookies using curly dock seed flour! Of course there was more to it than that, when you learn to cook with wild provisions, there’s always more to it. The recipe I modified came from Detoxinista. I don’t have coconut sugar in the house, so I …

Drowning in Barn Foraging and Late Summer Forecast

I’ll show pictures here to prove it!  The sand patch we use as an exercise ring for Bella, has threatened to overgrow in Lamb’s Quarters this summer! This was how that patch looked in the fall. The hint of green in the foreground is now quite a thick patch of …

Next Wellness Fair This Sunday, and Practical Foraging Thoughts

Well, it’s the eve of wellness fair weekend again. This time, the wellness fair is at a winery in South East Kelowna, at The Vibrant Vine on Sunday from 12pm to 5pm. I will be there offering my Biblical Natural Health Coaching along with my daughter selling her wildcrafted looseleaf …

More Home-side Foraging Escapades. . .

It’s Friday, and I’m exhausted. . . Thursday was my sort-of do-nothing day as I processed two trays of peppergrass, fluffed and condensed some of the trays from Monday’s foraging run, figured out where to put a tray of squat, wide-mouth mason jars we’d been given, and then at the …

Foraging Workshops and Our Own Foraging Adventures, Lots of Hiking This Weekend!

Slowly but surely, the foraging workshops are happening. Thanks to one lady offering several dates that worked for her, another lady requested a workshop last minute, contacting me on the Friday evening ahead of what would become a whirlwind day this past Sunday. Both women attended the workshop Sunday morning, …

Oatmeal and Wild Herbs

My daughter’s been on a bit of an oatmeal kick lately. She already eats a handful raw with nuts and dried fruit every morning while her brother makes himself porridge every workday. But we were talking about bread alternatives when the subject of the original scottish bannock came up. It …