Creative and inventive meals and treats using wildcrafted and foraged foods.
This impressive tear and share star bread is stunning and easy to make. Learn how to make shape star bread filled with a savory pesto of winter greens, evergreens, and oranges with tangy sourdough for a festive holiday loaf! I…
Finding a red huckleberry bush deep in a shady forest is a special treat. These sweet-tart berries make a delicious red huckleberry syrup perfect for drizzling over waffles, or into club soda for wildcrafted mock- or cocktails! It should come…
Technically a mead, due to the use of honey instead of sugar, this wild fermented dandelion wine is made delicious with the inclusion of apricots and blood orange. Once considered medicinal, lightly chilled homemade wine is a perfect summer sipper as the…
Feel like a French pastry chef with this easy profiteroles recipe. Filled with Douglas fir creme patissiere, each classic, elegant profiterole can be piled high to form a croquembouche tower. This impressive dessert is sure to please folks of all…
This Douglas Fir Poached Pear & Frangipane Tart is foraged treasure. Sweet, spiced, with the subtle balsamic of evergreen, this tart is stupendous! I must admit that I am a few cups of good cheer short of the holiday spirit…
Gather around for a mug of uplifting, magical hawthorn mulled apple cider to mend our metaphorical hearts during times of great sorrow and grief. They say that the proverbial veil is thinnest at this time of year. The trees are…
When the cold and flu season comes around, you might find it helpful to have this elderberry immunity syrup with rose hips and astragalus in supply! It is fall now. And all the kids are in school – even the…
Celebrate those last warm days of summer by making a wildcrafted Queen Anne’s Lace soda with peaches. It is like sipping on a sunset. Fall is my favorite season, but I am always reluctant to hand off the joys of…
This foraged wild blackberry sage shrub is cooling, sweet, with subtle earthy herbal overtones — perfect for summer beverages! Shrubs, also known as drinking vinegar, would seem to be the lasted hipster trend. Actually, though, shrubs were all ole time-y…
Wildcrafted soda is a unique and flavorful way to capture the essence of the season. Raspberries, wildflowers, and herbs offer enchanting flavor and color. Typical PNW summers are veritable painter’s palate of gastronomic inspiration. The cool, often rainy climate gives…
I am an herbalist, farmer, cook, and forager. I get my hands dirty and am not afraid to do things the "hard way". Sharing my Nitty Gritty Life with you! Read More
Devon
