Sun Chokes

Do you remember where you saw the wild sunflowers blooming in the summer?  Well I do!  I let them grow in my back yard and transferred some of the tubers to my garden.  They grow very tall so they make a good trellis for light weight plants that climb like peas.  Now in the winter it is time to treat yourself to the tubers that are right under the ground.  They look a little like deformed potatoes and can be fried like potatoes.  ( That is the way I like them best)  So if you miss having something to eat from the wild during the cold months dig some up!  I only dig a few each time as they are best

making persimmon kambucha today

Persimmon/Crab Apple Latte

When Scott and I went for a hike the other day we noticed there were tons of crab apple trees.  We know that they are kind of bitter so we weren't going to pick any but then we saw that there were over ripe ones ( squishy like applesauce in a handy carrying case :-)  Anyways, those were DELISH!  so we picked a bunch of them, added them to the bag of persimmons and came home.  This morning I made a wonderful, spicy persimmon, crab apple latte with cinnamon, cloves, red pepper.

Copies of Claire Goes Foraging will be available at TAC throughout the month of November

 

The first couple of paintings are hung for our show of poetry and paintings 

at 

the TAC Gallery in Tulsa

 

Book Reading at the Phoenix Book End in Tulsa

Not sure which time slot I will be in at the moment but both Scott and I will be reading from our books, him from "These Stones" and me, from "Claire goes Foraging." November 14th.  Check their facebook page for updated times

Scott makes Passion Fruit Curd

We basically combined several recipes for this easy to make pudding

Persimmons

I love the idea of painting small and getting something finished in just a day.  I also love any excuse to go walking in the woods and especially like it when I can grocery shop in the woods and at check out..... everything is FREE!  One of my favorite Oklahoma treasures that you won't find in the store, are persimmons.  This little painting is actually on my ebay auction this week along with some of it's brother and sister 6x6s.

To visit my ebay gallery

To visit my artist blog

Dang it... this isn't the one that is on auction but is one that is still available.  If I weren't so lazy I would go get it and take another photo... you can see it on the link to the gallery though.