WE WROTE A COOKBOOK! Eat Your Feelings: A Quarantine Cookbook
Though we can't be with you right now, we have written an accessible cookbook that is pantry friendly plant-based:
Eat Your Feelings: A Quarantine Cookbook
It is packed with easy, yet elegant recipes that will soothe your soul and nourish your spirits during these wild times. If you can lose yourself in the aroma of caramelized onions, share a smile with your families over steaming pasta, or find that the hours fly by when you are waiting for bread to rise, we have done our job.
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In the Kitchen with Marti: Bananas Foster Baked French Toast
Between our signature sea salt chocolate chip cookies, the flavored butter that we serve with homemade bread and jam for breakfast, or just that perfect pat of salted butter that frizzles the edges of a fried egg; butter is more than an ingredient, it is a statement of comfort and care to us. A way of saying we are happy you are here and we only serve the best things in life to our friends.
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Holiday Pre-Order: Sweets from Summit
You know that you need a sweet fix. Let us be the ultimate gift for someone far away or a welcome addition to your holiday table. Place your order today!
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Holiday Gift Guide: Shop Small
Here’s to the makers, the experience creators, the space holders, and the curators of memory. We see you, we love you and we support you.
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In the Kitchen with Marti: Savory Tomato Jam
Then while dining at one of our favorite lunch spots in Des Moines, I had a perfectly paired grilled cheese with smeared with savory tomato jam. I nearly fell out of my seat. While we had been eating tomatoes on everything, nothing I made tasted this beautifully intense. I had to figure out how to make it, and keep it on hand all year round, botulism be dammed. Thus my foolproof recipe for Tomato Jam was born.
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Sage Against the Machine
A significant part of our Homo-Steading journey has been practicing self reliance in all forms. When Marti contracted a spot of poison ivy earlier this Summer, she took to the woods (but first to Google) to harvest some jewelweed to apply to her itchy skin. When we have needed a little pick me up and have run out of coffee, we have sipped on Nettle tea, fresh from the woods. Using herbs for cooking and for medicine is part of our daily life and will continue to be more significant, as we plan to repurpose the vast majority of our backyard as a small speciality herb farm in the summer of 2020.
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