umeboshi – Dave Olson's Creative Life Archive

Kitchen: Ume vinegar, syrup & cordial (bottling etc)

July 7, 2021

[continuing from: Kitchen: Umeboshi Time with Crock & Rocks (+ pickles & jam) & Kitchen: Umeboshi update (drying after salting, before […]

July 4, 2021

Kaki Vinegar, Bottled-up (catching up from April 21, 2021) Kaki (persimmons) are all around us here in Okayama so we

June 20, 2021

Harvesting Ume: Ryoko Olson in her professional environment climbing trees (note her awesome boots and toolbelt), trimming branches and raining

November 16, 2020

Mondays at Tsuchida cottage are rather hectic by my standards… Grocery delivery comes from the co-op, new order form completed,

July 14, 2020

[continuing from: Kitchen: Umeboshi Time with Crock & Rocks (+ pickles & jam) & Kitchen: Umeboshi update (drying after salting, before

June 29, 2020

[continuing from: Kitchen: Umeboshi Time with Crock & Rocks (+ pickles & jam)] I know what you’re wondering, “but Dave,

June 16, 2020

Re: making umeboshi (salted “plums”) – These tart and salty gems come in all sorts of sizes and various styles

February 8, 2020

You could be forgiven for thinking that my life involves entirely eating delicious food and drinking fantastic coffee as you

January 22, 2020

So it goes, the festive season passes yet calendar stays busy with the usual sorts of things. Yesterday included returning