Adventure Kitchen

05/24/2026

We made breakfast for dinner in Cooking Club this week: half-whole wheat pancakes with a juniper cream sauce, topped with blueberries and pine nuts.

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(Or you can just snag yourself a ticket to the June class without becoming a member. You do you!)

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05/23/2026

POV: your holiday weekend plans are rained out so you decide to stay in and cook with juniper berries.

Juniper berries have a pleasant, slightly sweet flavor with a piney-floral aroma. So they’re ready to comfort you when your “summer kickoff” will be cold and rainy.

Fun fact: Botanically, juniper berries are actually the cone (not a berry!) from a juniper tree or bush.

Good juniper berries should still be fresh enough to be smashable with a fork, kind of like raisins. The flavor and aroma are on the inside, so crushing them slightly before you cook with them will help bring out all the flavor.

Grab a jar to get you through this rainy weekend on our website (link in bio).

05/21/2026

Our May Cooking Club livestream class is tonight! Always free for members. Not a member? Link in bio to get your ticket. (Or heck, become a member and join the class for free!)

This month’s livestream class is exploring cooking with juniper berries. They have a slightly floral profile with a hint of pine. They’re perfect for both savory and sophisticated sweet dishes, especially if you know how to work with them.

In this class we’ll use juniper berries to make a juniper cream sauce, then we’ll serve that sauce over half-whole wheat pancakes topped with blueberries and pine nuts. It’s a nourishing savory-sweet combination perfect for breakfast at dinner time (or heck, just breakfast).

We’ll explore juniper berries’ complex flavor profile, how to avoid the astringency or bitterness that can sometimes arise when not handled properly, and other dos and don’ts for cooking with them.

Tickets on the website, link in bio.

See you there!

05/19/2026

How to know it was a good weekend…

We were so many places last weekend!






👋Did we see you? 👀

05/18/2026

I changed my mind.

Bc it’s ☀️97 degrees this week then 🥶🌧️ by Saturday, so here’s what you do -

You get yourself some asparagus and you make this dish. Because it’s room temp on a hot day *and* those preserved lemons will brighten your spirits on a holiday weekend threatening to ruin your plans with rain.

And then you get yourself some juniper berries so you can drizzle this sauce over your waffles. And maybe you sit yourself on the couch and binge Something Very Bad because your husband is probably right and with good breakfast carbs you can muster the courage for just about anything.

And then you make these frozen Aleppo-chocolate pops. Because it’s a hot day in season no matter how much liquid will fall from the sky by Saturday.

So… why would the universe subject you to fiery torment during the work week, then rain all over your holiday weekend?

No idea.

But someday soon it will be perfect grilling weather. I promise. A nice breeze, a cold beer and grill marks on protein.

We’ll get through this together.

(Link to homepage with recipes in bio.)

05/16/2026

This one decision can change everything…

When you decide to shop at the farmers market, you:

🫐learn to navigate the seasons instead of the grocery aisles

🍏eat fresher foods that retain more nutrients

🌶️hone your cooking skills with new/unfamiliar ingredients

🥦learn to improvise with what you have instead of depending on recipe ingredient lists

🍓enable small-scale farming that’s better for the planet

🥕support local family businesses so they can help YOU with all of the above!

😋 and best of all, your cooking tastes amazing!

Come stock up on all the fruits, veggies, and locally grown goodness you can handle (plus spices 😉) at Montclair Farmers Market every Saturday.

See you there!

05/12/2026

How to know…

…if you had a good weekend 🤔

You came to see us at 👋

See you there every Saturday 9am-1pm at the Walnut Street train station in Montclair.

05/09/2026

Just published: "[Spice Shop] Single-origin turmeric and bay leaves that actually work...". Link to subscribe and see what's fresh from the spice shop this week.

Fresh from the spice shop

05/08/2026

Start with this -

Open the lid.

Can’t smell anything?

Listen, life is too short to hang into those sad tired spices from the past.

There’s a big, beautiful world of springtime deliciousness out there! Time to move on.

We’ll do this together. Take a deep breath and say it with me:

Goodbye old spices, and thank you for everything.

You were lovely once, but I need more flavor in my life.

It’s not you, it’s me. (Actually, it’s totally you).

Now… doesn’t that feel better?

Now you’re free to hook up with some new spices. A spring fling with something fun and funky.

(I recommend a dinner date.)

05/08/2026

Just published: "[Montclair] fresh spices at farmers market Saturday". Link in first comment to details and subscribe for farmers market updates...