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Terpenes and Terroir
A California Farm Dinner Inspired by a pioneer spirit and verdant agricultural landscape, California has always been the cultural home of the farm-to-table movement. Forty-seven years since Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in Berkeley, people continue to identify California with food and wine that is refined yet unencumbered. On a kitchen table or restaurant menu, […]
Spicy Roasted Chickpeas
If you’re starting to experiment with edibles, using a store-bought, cannabis-infused oil is a smart way to keep a control factor on your culinary experiments.
Outer Galactic Chocolates
Written by Nora Mounce What if King Midas’s magical power could have transformed everything he touched into a healing herb? Or chocolate? A Greek mythological figure, King Midas’s omnipotent fingers are metaphorical of man’s singular desire for wealth. Do such fantasies still dominate our reality? In 2018, evidence of a cultural revolution is everywhere. Cannabis […]
Spicy Watermelon Shooters
Recipe Makes eight 1 oz shooters At the apex of summer refreshment, fluorescent booze-spiked slushies shimmer like a vacancy sign on an empty highway. To keep sugar and alcohol levels at a happy medium, we zipped these refreshing watermelon margaritas in the blender with nothing more than watermelon, ice, lime juice and tequila. A hint […]
Rosemary Focaccia Bread
Written by Nora Mounce Ingredients 1 package active dry yeast (¼ ounce) 1 ⅔ cup lukewarm water 2 ½ teaspoons salt 5 cups unbleached all-purpose flour, plus additional for kneading ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil 3 tablespoons rosemary-cannabis olive oil 1 tablespoon fresh rosemary leaves, finely chopped 1 teaspoon coarse sea salt In the bowl […]
Avocado Toast with Pickled Radishes
Written by Nora Mounce A food trend worth exploring, spreading mashed avocado on toasted bread has opened the culinary doors to an entirely new cuisine – savory toast. “The world’s first avocado bar,” in Brooklyn, has a menu that looks sooo tasty. Called Avocaderia, the dishes read like a “Best of Your Friend’s Homemade Lunches,” […]
Rosemary-Garlic Rack of Lamb
By Nora Mounce I always suspected that cooking a rack of lamb was secretly easier than it looked. In this recipe, all you need to do is prepare a simple rub and roast the lamb. I made this dish to celebrate moving into a new house this New Year’s Eve. It felt like a […]
What’s Weed Got To Do With It?
In the changing landscape of legalization, lots of folks are complaining about mainstream culture appropriating weed like it’s a shiny new cookie (a cookie we now call cannabis). As a cannabis writer and Humboldt County resident, I hear these comments and discussions often. There’s a fear on the hill that a longstanding underground culture is […]
Goat Cheese Stuffed Bell Peppers
If you’re my friend, you’ve tried these goat cheese stuffed peppers. A simple appetizer hack, I can’t recall when I first threw these delicious and colorful party snacks together. But I can’t be the only one, as I see bags of baby bell peppers stocked at every grocery store in town. In Humboldt County, Cypress […]
Spring Greens Salad
Spring is a bit of a culinary tease. The sun may be shining, but we’re still weeks away from putting plants in the ground and cruising the farmer’s market in a sundress. By April, we all want to move on from the hearty comfort food of winter, but the only produce in abundance is cabbage […]