Roasted Radish & Kale Salad
A delicious and easy Kale salad served in a WBS Serving Bowl
Roasted Radish, pickled onion & beet and kale salad served in Wild Bower Studio Round Serving Bowl
If you’re looking for someone to try your cake or brownie, look no further. I have a serious sweet tooth and will never turn down a sweet treat. So you can understand when I say that salad on the other hand is not really my thing… well, it’s still not my number one but growing kale in the garden has really rocked the boat.
Kale was one of the first vegetables that we could harvest this year along with radishes. For inspiration I followed this recipe for roasted radishes and kale salad. I didn’t have all the ingredients so we figured it out along the way. Last year I did a lot of pickling so we added pickled onions and beets. Since we aren’t cooking our kale - don’t forget to massage your kale.
The thing I enjoyed the most from the recipe linked was their Nutritional Yeast and Apple Cider Vinegar Salad Dressing. It was a game changer!
Once you mix up all your ingredients move everything to a Wild Bower Studio Serving Bowl or Platter. Serve your dressing in one of our mixing bowls so your guests can indulge. And enjoy!
At The Table: A Fundraiser and Community Dinner
At the Table was created to raise funds for the Ellenville NAACP.
On August 26th, 2020, a wonderful group of humans gathered together to present At The Table: A Fundraiser and Community Dinner, which raised $3700 for our local NAACP chapter in Ellenville.
When community gathers to support one another magical things happen. We are so honored to have been able to organize this event for the community and floored to have had such an amazing turn out. Thank you to all of our organizers, donors, ticket purchasers both in person and out of town, and to special thanks to the Ellenville NAACP for doing such incredible work.
For updates & to stay in touch please follow Ellenville NAACP’s Facebook page.
For direct donations please mail a check to:
Ellenville NAACP
PO Box 229
Ellenville, NY 12428
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States. Learn more about the NAACP
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ORGANIZERS:
Katy Porte
Jay Merritt
Collaborators:
Food by: Baba Truck NY
Venue: The Glen Wilde
Live Music: Mark G Meadows
Live Music: Nicole Saphos
DJ: Z.H.O.N.E
Potters:
Raffle items provided by:
Foraged Shagbark Hickory Syrup
First time foraging to create shagbark hickory syrup ready for those breakfast pancakes.
Moon over snow covered land
Once home I cleaned all the pieces of bark ; removing the dirt and lichen that settled in each cranny. After that you must toast the bark in the oven on low heat, which makes the entire house smell incredible - maybe I’ll reuse the bark for this during our holiday get together. Here is the recipe that I followed, which was found on Real Tree Though I didn’t have any corn syrup, I don’t particularly even like it so that was fine. We used sugar and the tea created when we boiled the hickory bark - reduced it to a thick syrup and then canned it. I’m so incredibly pleased with this beautiful syrup. It has a smoky sweet taste and was incredibly easy to make ( I don’t think I quite got all the sugar absorbed but it was my first try so yo u see a little crystallization starting). I’m even going to pat myself on the back since this was also the first time I ever sterilized and canned anything. Looking forward to foraging and canning more in the future. Next adventure is collecting white pine to make tea.
Last weekend, my partner and I took our Saturday date day to the woods and joined The Outside Institute on their Winter Foraging Expedition. Just a few weeks before our area got about 15” of snow so finding a safe place to forage was a bit hard but Laura managed to scout a good location at a state park. On our journey, we learned about identifying plants and ways to use them like rose hip, barberry, blackberry, birch, spruce, cedar, crab apples, and hickory. Hickory stuck in my head because Laura mentioned that besides it being great for smoking, hickory was also delicious as a syrup. Since our Christmas was going to be a savory brunch with our family, I was super interested in adding a special syrup to our day. So, we foraged some of the bark that was already pulled away from the tree.
Finished homemade Shagbark Hickory Syrup
Fall Season Meals: Pears & Ricotta
Let’s face it, sometimes I get incredibly bored with breakfast and more honestly, with cleaning dishes in the morning. So, when I found this pear and ricotta toast I couldn’t help but see the potential in flavor and the possibility of returning some much needed time to my sleep schedule. Super flavorful and satisfying, check out the recipe at bonappetit
Featured in these images are our Navy splash & Speckled White Dinner Plates.
Fall Season Meals: Breakfast Granola
Homemade granola has been a happy medium - you can add chocolate chips, dried fruit or mixed nuts. The best part is I can control how much sugar is being added to avoid my most hated sugar hangovers.
This recipe is so easy and requires barely ay prep so if I have convinced you into trying out your own homemade granola check out the recipe I found at cookie and kate.
Featured in these images are our small snack bowl & cereal bowl.
I’m a snacker. I love to snack and I really cannot help myself. Once I start to crave I don’t stop until I eat something. In the past I would munch on donuts and other really unhealthy items full of processed sugars (and yes, I still have some nights like this) but recently I’ve been trying very hard to cut out items that are overly processed and full of preservatives.
Fall Season Meals: Radicchio Salad with Chicken, Pear, and Pomegranate
In search of some very fall forward recipes to serve out of our large speckled serving bowl, I stumbled onto this beauty of a salad over at bonappetit . There were a few things that I changed because of what was available at the store vs how much work was I about to embark on - like using chicken instead of turkey, adding more greens and using store bought dressing. I must say as a person who barely eats salad this one was a wow and will be made again for sure.
