This Fall, try something different. Gather acorns. After they’re shelled, ground and leached, add them to a cheesecake recipe and watch it come alive. Knowing that you can eat acorns, makes it fun to watch the “nuts” develop on the trees. It’s a good skill to have, whether you’re a prepper or a gourmet cook. Eat acorns and while you’re at it… plant some oak trees.
Suellen Ocean is the author of Acorns and Eat’em, a how-to vegetarian cookbook and field guide for eating acorns:
Before long, Autumn will be upon us. The leaves will turn golden and plump brown acorns will litter the ground. One of my favorite recipes is Acorn Onion Dip. The acorns provide color, texture, and a tangy flavor, once they’ve been shelled and leached.
Suellen Ocean is the author of Acorns and Eat’em, a how-to vegetarian cookbook and field guide for eating acorns:
Are you one of those who has always wanted to gather acorns? It’s a pleasant experience. And particularly rewarding if you cook with them. They need to be shelled, ground, and leached before you throw them into recipes, but once that’s done, you’ll be surprised at the dishes that are improved with the addition of acorns.
Suellen Ocean is the author of Acorns and Eat’em, a how-to vegetarian cookbook and field guide for eating acorns:
What’s the taste difference between real cream cheese and fake cream cheese made from tofu? Honestly, when it comes to cheesecake… a big difference. I bought some Tofutti brand cream cheese because I wanted to make my award winning (brag, brag) Acorn Cheesecake and I thought it was time I tried making it dairy free. When I got the Tofutti cream cheese home, I tasted it and was impressed with the flavor, thinking it would be perfect for the acorn onion dip I make. But it just didn’t cut it flavor wise for the cheesecake. It wasn’t bad, it just didn’t have the rich flavor of a real cheesecake. But I do look forward to trying Tofutti cream cheese to make my acorn onion dip.
Suellen Ocean is the author of Acorns and Eat’em, a how-to vegetarian cookbook and field guide for eating acorns:
Let me start with the losers, that’s easy. Anything that sucks water. The winners are the little things… lady bugs, lizards, aphids… birds. These tiny creatures are at the bottom of the biotic pyramid but just as important as creatures at the top. Without lady bugs we’d have too many smaller bugs eating our produce. Same with lizards. They eat insects. And birds, wow. Some baby birds eat fourteen feet of worms in a day. Oh wait… we like worms, they build beautiful soil. But then imagine a world without worm predators, worms would be everywhere, and they’d probably grow large. But worms like moisture, so I’ll not worry about that… yet. I’ll just sit back and enjoy the proliferation of birds and honeybees that are sucking the nectar out of an abundance of wildflowers the drought has brought on in my neck of the woods.
Suellen Ocean is the author of Acorns and Eat’em, a how-to vegetarian cookbook and field guide for eating acorns:
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