I recently had the opportunity to interview Josh Volk, author of Compact Farms, a new guidebook on running market farming operations on very little acreage. We were surprised to discover that we’d both worked at Sauvie Island Organics–myself last summer, as a field hand, and Josh several years before as a farm manager. Sauvie was, in…
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Miso Guacamole
First of all: just try it. I’ll wait. 3-4 small to medium avocados 1/2 small white or red onion, minced 1 clove garlic, crushed or grated 1/2 lime (more to taste) 1/2 t cumin 1/2 t chili powder 1 T white (shiro) miso paste (more to taste) 1 t soy sauce (more to taste) Squeeze…
Minibar Mixology: The Moonstone
This is intended as the first in a (mini) series of cocktails to make with those little 2-ounce bottles of liquor, in case your roommate got you a sampling of them as a tongue-in-cheek birthday gift (my situation). Or in case, god forbid, you are staring down the be-Pepsi’d countenance of an actual minibar. If…
Filial pie-ety
If you’re like me, the best part of a pie is the sticky, goo-saturated bottom crust, and strawberry rhubarb filling makes some top-shelf goo.
A perfect asparagus delivery system
…this is something my mom made every summer, just as soon as the asparagus in our garden started the cycle from tender shoots to frilly, Jurassic fronds.
Richard Adcock 