Terroir of the Cascade's Cooking Study

Terroir of the Cascades Cooking Study with Bonnie, Daniel, Lydia, and Ze

Author: Lydia Hammond

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Foraging

Our foraging experiences

Most of the foraging we did requires a shell fishing license, you can purchase one here: https://fishhunt.dfw.wa.gov/ Additionally there are regulations on harvesting, they are available here: http://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/shellfish/statewide_rules.html And finally before heading out to harvest make sure you check this page for safe practices and to make sure there are no pollution/toxicity closures where you plan to go: http://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/shellfish/shellfish_seaweed_rules.html   For our taste of place video as well as our meroir themed dinner we decided to go foraging to try and capture some local flavors. We started with a night trip to Duckabush public tidelands to catch the low tide....

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ILC Hours

Lydia’s hours

sun mon tues wed thur fri sat WEEKLY TOTAL Week 1 3 1.5 5.5  4 14 Week 2 2 11.5 3 5 3  1 25.5 Week 3 1 1  2 Week 4 fieldtrip Week 5 3  7.5 11 1 10 32.5 Week 6 1 4 10.5 7 5.25 27.75 Week 7 2 9 3.5 14.5 Week 8 12.5 2 6 7 4.5 32 Week 9 6 11.5 1 5 4 6 33.5 Week 10 4 8 8  4.5 2.6 TOTAL:206.25

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Our Meals and Recipes

Szechuan Chicken Dinner Recipe

Ingredients: For the Vegetables -leeks -squash -parsnip -Sugar Loaf Chicory (found at Calliope farm stand) or another biter-sweet salad green -fermented chile paste (can be home made by mixing ground hot peppers with lots of salt like sauerkraut -or you can buy something like it at Asian grocery stores) -shallot vinaigrette (minced shallots mixed with 2 Tbs sherry vinegar and 5 Tbs good olive oil or neutral oil like canola) -salt -pepper -oil (we used Canola) For the Chicken -Alex’s chicken -Draper Ranger chicken purchased at the east side Olympia co-op -Chehalis Pastured Chicken purchased at the east side Olympia co-op -1/2c...

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Our Meals and Recipes

Emotional Terroir and the Inspiration For Our Szechuan Chicken Dinner

When you have someone cook for you, it can be nice, but it can also just be routine. Your body needs fuel, so you go somewhere and get something to eat. Sometimes that fuel is a hurriedly eaten cheeseburger in your car during your lunch break from work. It happens to all of us, and there’s nothing wrong with it per se. But, I personally see it as an example of a meal completely lacking in emotional terroir. If you’re interested in how setting or emotion can improve the food that you eat, you could try hunting down some ingredients...