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A perfect dressing for a Summer salad

salad

The rainy season in Michoacán is fairly predictable. Somewhat cloudy mornings are followed by gorgeous, sunny mid-days. Around 4:00pm, we start to hear thunder in the distance. Rains usually arrive by 5:00, and taper off by 7:00. Occasionally we have rainstorms during the night while we drift in and out of sleep, listening to the patter on the (hopefully not leaking) roof.

This pattern has been fairly consistent up until last week. We’ve been hit with an amazing amount of rain – houses in town have flooded, streets have been temporarily closed,

Roasted Radishes

radish

When I wrote about radishes and their abundance and how much I dislike them, my dad sent me this link. Roasting radishes. Cooking them. How weird.

I was, admittedly, quite skeptical. But with a recent “gift” of about 30 radishes, and not a whole lot of need for a new giant batch of kimchi, this morning I eyed them and noticed they were about 5 hours away from being too old to eat. I cut them up and pan roasted

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Gundru

A jar of gundru ready to be fermented

What do you do when your gardening team provides you with two five-gallon buckets full of radishes?

I winced. Cringed. Blech. I can barely bring myself to add a couple of radishes to a salad, let alone deal with hundreds of the things. One of the ladies I buy food from in the market always tries to give me a few bundles of radishes for free. I’ve taken to a little white lie: “Oh, no thank

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Making Tofu

Tofu

Before doing a bit of research I thought of tofu as a sort of this mysterious white blob, capable of being incredible awesome if cooked correctly. Equally capable of being pretty awful if prepared by an unskilled cook. Six years ago I first tried cooking with tofu. It was a disaster; the chunks were bland and nearly turned me off to the stuff forever. Now I can’t get enough of it. I missed it terribly when I moved down to rural Mexico where the only tofu you can find is too expensive

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Mandarin Marmalade

basket of mandarin oranges

Our mandarin tree went nuts this year and produced hundreds of fruits. It is gorgeous. I’ve been watering it with some of the kitchen grey water, hoping to make the fruit a bit more juicy, and it has helped some. Unfortunately, the mandarins are very tart, and usually still a bit dry. We will put some manure from one of our composting toilets into the orchard to try to increase production and flavor of our fruit.

But… what to do with a bunch of mandarins that

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A perfect dressing for a Summer salad

Roasted Radishes

Gundru

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Mandarin Marmalade

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