Chinese BBQ pork buns (char siu bao) are part of my Cantonese heritage. Making authentic-tasting char siu bao out of moose or wild game is a rewarding and delicious learning experience.
Urban foraging for acorns was one of my first forays into wild plant foods. Read about urban foraging, processing, how to candy acorns and best ways to eat acorns.
Foraging for rose hips, processing and making rose hip tea is easy when you live in BC. Rose hips grow wild and in cities, with no poisonous lookalikes.
This Cantnese ginger scallion crab recipe is inspired by the crab I’d eat at Chinese association banquets with my grandmother every year.
Read about my latest summertime chanterelle adventure and what I did with the harvest, plus blog updates and personal news.
Learn how to ferment cabbage kimchi with confidence with this guide, including tips, formula for salt-to-ingredient ratio, FAQs and recipe recommendation.
This guide covers British Columbia mushroom foraging regulations and was last updated in 2020.
I look forward to buying Okanagan apples as part of my annual fall tradition and spending a chilly fall day processing apples until I’ve made enough jars of spiced apple butter preserves to get me through a year’s worth of dinner parties, brunches, and gifts.
Combined with melty and crispy cheese, aromatic leeks, and a browned crust, this kimchi omelette is a crave-worthy option that is just as good for a luxurious weekend brunch as it is for an exhausted weeknight.
Learning how to skull mount deer and other wild game skulls is a rewarding skill for any hunter at the end of their hunting season. Skull mounts, also known as euro mounts, western skull mounts, western mounts, or European mounts, are a traditional way to preserve wild game skulls and antlers, horns, and other head-attached attributes.
This BC Oyster Foraging Guide: Regulations, Limits, Licenses has been updated to meet 2020 government regulations. I wrote this guide to make it easier for new foragers to learn about and harvest oysters in BC safely and legally.
Learning to flavor kombucha is simple when you understand it’s just a secondary fermentation. Plus, lemon ginger kombucha recipe & popular flavors.
This post was originally published on October 3, 2017 and was updated on January 2, 2021. Learning how to cure green olives naturally was one of my first solo urban homesteading attempts. It was such …
This article covers how to shuck wild oysters with this illustrated guide. Wild oysters from BC and the Pacific Northwest can be harder to open and handle compared to farmed oysters. Special thanks to W. for modelling.
