Making Sea Salt November 16, 2009

For an event last fall with OPENrestaurant entitled OPENcity, I made sea salt from water collected at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. From the 5 gallons of water I collected I ended up with approximately 4 cups of salt.

I was lucky and had a string of very warm and sunny days which provided optimal conditions to dry the salt. for the amount I dried, it took about 4 days. The salt dried completely in the sun, dried in to larger crystals which were light and flaky. As a comparison, I dried a small amount in a warm oven. This salt was not flaky, but instead dried into very fine grains.

Please click on the photos for a more detailed description.

Building raised planter boxes May 3, 2009

I will be building raised planter beds in my garden on May 8th, 2009. If anyone would like to come and learn, please let me know and I can give you more details.

Raised Planter Boxes

Making Candied Citrus Peels May 1, 2009

The innagural Mad Skills Share workshop in conjunction with Forage Oakland on April 26, 2009.

Please click on the pictures for more detailed descriptions or got to

http://picasaweb.google.com/pastrygirlsp/MakingCandiedCitrusPeel#

for a step by step guide to this process. Enjoy!

Leftover syrup

drying the peels

Laying out the peels to dry

Draining the peels with a slotted spoon

Prepped drying rack

Champagne bubbles

Bubbles will get smaller

Peels almost ready

Simmering the peels in simple syrup

Peel in simple syrup

Peel slices ready to candy

Simple syrup

Making simple syrup

Make simple syrup

Water for simple syrup

Sugar for simple syrup

Sugar for simple syrup

Citrus peel slices

Scooped out peel

Scooping out the citrus membrane

Checking for tenderness

Blanching Citrus Peels