Category: kitchenwork

• September 21st, 2023 – little projects

  

  Gardening, as well as kitchenwork and animal-care, have taught me a lot about perfectionism and compromise. In my first couple years of gardening, I have had a lot of “failures”. In fact, I think I have maybe had a 20% success rate in terms of growing a plant and getting what I wanted out of…

  Dani

  September 20, 2023

  all topics, animal care, fermenting, garden & farmwork, grief, kitchenwork, mico, perfume, service dogs

  brewing, fermenting, food, gardening, kitchenwork, mico, service dogs, wildcrafting

• September 12th, 2023 – kitchen sink soup

  

  I make a lot of “kitchen sink” type dishes – I rarely follow an exact recipe and am always trying to experiment, especially if I have excess ingredients I need to use up quickly. This is a butternut squash soup I made! I roasted all my ingredients in a sheet pan for easy, hands-off work.…

  Dani

  September 12, 2023

  all topics, ARFID, eating disorders, ehlers danlos & the trifecta, kitchenwork

  ARFID, chronic illness, disability, Ehlers Danlos, food, kitchenwork, neurodiversity, paralytic ileus, the trifecta

• September 5th, 2023 – passion fruit bandit

  

  Some of these passionfruit definitely vanished off the vine due to critters (pictured below is a very cute suspected thief) but for me, the model of food growing I am working towards involves learning to make peace with the already existing ecosystem around me, rather than trying to take over what was theirs, and forcing…

  Dani

  September 5, 2023

  all topics, food, garden & farmwork, mini posts

  coyote, gardening, growing fruit, harvesting, wildlife

• August 27th, 2023 – dabbling in wild yeast fermentation + the unexpected passing of my service animal

  

  dabbling in wild yeast collecting + fermentation – this is sweet alyssum, alpine strawberries, and sweet woodruff with honey !! The garden feels very quiet without Mico. Late summer always felt like melancholy and now, even more so. I miss her all the time. I think I will miss her forever. When the coyotes come…

  Dani

  August 27, 2023

  all topics, animal care, fermenting, garden & farmwork, kitchenwork, mico, mini posts, service dogs, the grief of loss

  brewing, fermenting, food, gardening, grief, mico, mini posts, service dogs, the grief of losing a service animal, wildcrafting

• July 16th, 2023 – bone marrow broth

  

  I’m making bone broth from oven roasted marrow bones, manpukuji carrots + greens from the garden, sage + rosemary + thyme + Thai Basil flowers from the garden, cinnamon + cloves + star anise, homemade black garlic, onion + black pepper, and sliced ginger (some of which I just planted). It smells amazing so far,…

  Dani

  July 16, 2023

  all topics, cooking, food, kitchenwork, mini posts