Posts By: TwoJunes

Cheese Grits and Collard Greens

Cheese Grits and Collard Greens

The possibilities are limitless. Kale, spinach or mustard greens would also be great.

Taking No Child Left Behind Into the Garden

Taking No Child Left Behind Into the Garden

by TwoJunes Volunteering at the Oregon Food Bank I (Lisa again this week!) am very excited to be participating two wonderful programs offered by The Oregon Food Bank this summer. I’ll be volunteering as a mentor for the Cultivating Community program, and then, a bit later, helping out however I can in teaching or developing [...]

Kids and Gardening: Getting Dirty Pays

Kids and Gardening: Getting Dirty Pays

From the time I could walk and have my toes in the dirt, I knew food came from a real place and required effort to obtain.

Health Food or Frankenfood: You Decide

Health Food or Frankenfood: You Decide

Beyond the marketing hype, there is value in some of those functional ingredients. I (Nicole, aka June #1) work in the food industry. For years, I have been explaining my “unusual” homelife to coworkers—the lifestyle of homemade food centered on local, natural ingredients that readers here take to be completely normal. So (readers here) you [...]

Homemade Stock: Kitchen Alchemy

Homemade Stock: Kitchen Alchemy

Here in the kitchen of the TwoJunes, we practice a kind of rough magic on the days we make stock. Our precious “stockpile” of poultry carcasses, limp carrots, slightly wilted celery stalks, withered mushrooms and forlorn parsley stems bubble contentedly in the big pot along with garlic, onion and fresh herbs from the garden. Check [...]

Small Batch Chicken Stock

Small Batch Chicken Stock

TwoJunes, Lisa Bell and Nicole Rees, share their latest recipe: We freeze all our poultry carcasses and bones, be it chicken, duck or turkey. Then, when the carrots and celery are looking a little droopy, we pull everything out and make a huge batch of stock. Very little gets wasted that way. We usually make [...]

Many Mushroom Stock

Many Mushroom Stock

A great way to use up some of those leftover dried mushrooms you’ve been saving.

Mushroom Pasta Cooked Like Risotto

Mushroom Pasta Cooked Like Risotto

Lisa Bell has adored mushrooms her entire life. If not feeling well, this dish is what she requests as a restorative.

Baby Steps to a Green Kitchen

Baby Steps to a Green Kitchen

For a greener kitchen, the TwoJunes offer up the following four categories of practices/ choices.

Earth Day in the Kitchen

Earth Day in the Kitchen

For the Two Junes, making our cooking life more sustainable is an on-going process. Simply modifying daily habits can make a big impact.