Rusty Ring

'Way back in the first weeks of this blog I posted on the sourdough bread that's been part of my monastic practice since b...

'Way back at university I decided I had to do something about New Year's Day. Here in Anglophonia, it's only a holiday in the ...

Inexplicably growing in a field A great blessing of summer is the bounty of wild mint that appears during this season in most parts o...

During the holidays we frequently entertain, including in the morning. The season is also particularly associated with the scent and...

Here we are at the holidays again, for some reason, which means that many of us will soon confront daunting quantities of leftover turkey...

Though delicious, Fucus (FYOO-kuss) has a marketing problem. The genus sounds like some kind of fungal disease; its common names – roc...

Just in time for holiday entertaining, here's a killer recipe for an easy, addictive appetiser or side dish. Both the "Quick"...

Here's a quick hint from Rob's Hermit Kitchen: The plums have ripened here in the Northern Hemisphere, and those with trees are ...

Shaggy manes ( Coprinus comatus ) are ubiquitous now where I live. These very common and almost globally-available wild mushrooms are a fa...

Last Christmas I shared my Perfect Chai , for the greater enlightenment of all sentient beings. But I left them hungry. So this year, I ...

October is an odd time in North America: for these thirty-one days, you can buy a pumpkin here. Any other time, you get: "What, are yo...

Scalding days here on the North Coast put me in mind of a great simple delicacy, the sublime sunshine tea. Nothing beats this stuff on a ...

(I just uploaded a hermitcraft article last week, but a reader recently asked about sourdough starter, so I'll go ahea...

It's Christmas, when thoughts naturally turn to chai. Well, they do if they're mine. Chai is not in fact a Christmas drink; it...

I had never made ghee before I went to the mountain . In the planning stages of that project, having been raised on tales of people...

I often see in my blog stats that people have landed on my hermit bread (Canadian bannock) recipe while searching for information ...

(A soda-free, wild yeast-raised, classic sourdough version of this bread can be found here . If you landed here looking for the rec...