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Happy Yellow Moon! S-ke:g Oam Maṣad!
Brittlebush (Encelia farinosa), known as tohaws in O’odham, is spreading its glory over the Sonoran Desert this month! April– at last! The Sonoran Des is in cheer-mode after a long, chilly-wet and...
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A Traditional Recipe for Nopales (Prickly Pear Pads)
Delicious combination of nopales, onions, tomatoes, and chile paste. Last weekend I gathered with a few friends to reminisce about a time decades ago when we were all just starting out in the world of...
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Eat Mesquite and More: a Cookbook for Sonoran Desert Living
Happy Summer, friends! Amy here, on a hot, hot morning, sitting the shade. Have you seen Desert Harvester’s new edition of the cookbook??? It is 400 pages! with lots of color photographs and original...
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Stuffed Squash-Blossom Time!
Squash vines absolutely LOVE this monsoon-season humidity! If you’re growing squash this late-summer season–or if you know anyone who is–now is the time to harvest for the rare and wonderful treat of...
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Easy Tricks for Pomegranates and a Recipe
The pomegranate tree in my backyard produced five fruits this year.. The blemish on the top of the closest fruit was made by a leaf-footed bug. A small part of the interior will be bad, but the...
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Cheering with Agave Spirits!
Tia Marta here, tipping a glass to Mayahuel, Goddess of the Agave, for her many gifts–and, in addition, I’m toasting the current voice of Agave: Southwest native foods author/philosopher Gary Paul...
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Rellenos Nuevos
Hello friends, Amy here celebrating the harvest. At Tucson CSA this fall we had several batches of gorgeous, fleshy, green chiles! Farmer Frank of Crooked Sky Farm has been supplying us for years and...
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Celebrating Three Tucson Women and Their Innovative Work with Southwest Foods
An Interview with Gary Paul Nabhan by a SavortheSouthwest.blog Fan Caption: Faces behind the blog–the SavorSisters left to right: Mano y Metate Molera Amy Valdes Schwemm, Author/Culinary...
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50 Years Exploring Wild Foods of the Southwest
Originally published by Macmillan in 1974 Current version published by University of Nebraska Press 1999. It’s Carolyn here today with a walk down memory lane. This year celebrates 50 years since the...
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Homemade Chipotle Chiles in Adobo: Guest Editor Tells Why
I It’s Carolyn this week and we Savor Sisters have decided that’s it’s time to share some of the brilliance of our cooking friends with our readers. Tia Marta and I began experimenting with wild...
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