I enjoy atole – a warm drink popular throughout Mexico, Central America, and the American Southwest. Atole Has Many Variations Atole (pronounced a-tole-ee) is generally based on corn, frequently sweetened somehow, and often prepared with cinnamon as well. There are countless various recipes for preparation, […]
Forage some wormwood (Artemisia) while you forage your acorns for OAKtober. Indeed, you can forage leaves of the wormwood plants at virtually any time of year. Best flavor is when plants are not in bloom tho. Wormwood?! This plant was once commonly used to treat […]
The tea industry has declared June “National Iced Tea Month.” So today we will look at seven common regional plants that make tasty tea. Many of these can be grown as landscape plants – so foraging could be as close as your own yard. Let’s […]
Brittlebush (Encelia species) is in the sunflower family and offers its bright yellow flowers to pollinating bees as early as January in parts of the desert Southwest. It is easily recognized and has some nice uses for the forager – or if you just want […]
So you foraged those mesquite beans – harvested them and ground them into meal or flour – NOW what?! There are many lovely ways to use the mesquite flour! We already shared our One Minute Mesquite Muffin, now here is a muffin for folks that […]
In Mexican and parts of the Southwest, one often has either caldo or sopa at the mid-day meal. I first had this caldo over thirty years ago in the remote mountains of Sonora. I have since had many variations of Caldo de Verduras over the […]
