There has been a request for a recipe using peaches. The markets currently abound with peaches of all sorts including Redhavens, Weinbergpfirsiche and Honigpfirsiche. More aromatic than sweet, Weinbergpfirsiche grow in vineyards. Almost forgotten by the eighties, they have enjoyed a comeback. Their flesh is white instead of the usual yellow, though there is also a [...]
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Happy Swjato Makoweja!
Posted in Honey, Peaches, Poppy seed on August 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Honeydial
Posted in Buckwheat, Honey on August 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What time is it? Time to be thankful for a surprise gift of honey. The jar is 1/100 of the honey harvest of a hobby beekeeper whose hives are in the forest. Despite the loss of half of his colony over the colder than normal winter, his hives have bounced back and he has had [...]
Always was a buckwheat girl
Posted in Bilberries, Buckwheat, Honey on August 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My first post included buckwheat but did not provide an introduction to one of my totem plants, which I am cultivating on my balcony this year. Fagopyrum esculentum (syn. Fagopyrum sagittatum) originated in Nepal. It then spread east to China, where it is considered to be a yang-promoting food in traditional Chinese medicine that warms [...]
Le bonheur est sur les toits
Posted in Honey, Inspirations, tagged Brussels on July 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The week-long gap between posts was due to a trip to Brussels, home of the Atomium and Arno Hintjens, capital of a kingdom that had a king who agreed NOT to be king for a day, in short a special place where part of its population is celebrating independence from the Netherlands today. I attended [...]
