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Matt and I had a wonderful visit to our cabin from our good friend Abby Goodman. She is in town because she is apprenticing with the Columbines School of Botanical Studies starting today. Go Abby!

Because of this exciting visit we had ourselves quite a wild and homemade feast.

To start of the evening we gorged ourselves with an appetizer of home made salsa Matt and I made and froze last summer. We used home grown tomatoes, peppers, and chilies from our garden.

Thursday afternoon we harvested big leaf maple buds and blossoms or racemes and dandelion flowers so we can make fritters. Right now the maple racemes are just starting to flower and leaf out which is a perfect time for harvesting.

To make the fritters simply whip up a pancake type batter to your liking, drop in the blossoms to the batter and throw them in a frying pan with oil. We dipped the little cakes into Yumm Sauce, mustard, and honey. The maple blossoms were very mild with just a hint of flavor while the dandelion blossoms had the after taste of bitterness.

Along with our lovely meal Abby brought some of her homemade herbal beer including mugwort beer and her own variation of ginger beer. Absolutely delicious. Another exciting edition was her last mason jar of homemade sauerkraut!

To top off the meal Matt pulled out our last piece of pork we home butchered last year. The half a pig we purchased and butchered lasted us over a year!

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