The Bounty Hunter

The Bounty Hunter is a website about cooking and eating delicious, seasonal and local foods.

Melissa

Peach, Corn and Halloumi Salad with Lime Jalapeno Dressing

We are fully into summer and making our way over into late summer already. Summer is so fleeting. While I love this season and its sun soaked days and bounty of produce, it often feels a little frantic. Like there is so much to fit into such a short amount of time and squeeze out of every day. As someone who loves to do it all, I am doing my best to slow things down by taking time to just enjoy each day as it comes and take quiet moments in the garden and nature and to spend time with friends and family with feet in the sand. I am soaking up the beauty and warmth and trying and tuck some of it away (in my mind and freezer) to draw upon in the cold, dark months of winter.
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Cattail and Cucumber Salad with Tea Infused Vinaigrette

This super simple and refreshing salad was inspired by a trip to the bog with Isabelle Ranger of Namasthé Tea Co. on a very hot day summer’s day. Isabelle harvested some cattails while we were out and sent me home with a gift of some to use back in my kitchen. The young shoots can be eaten raw and have a crunchy, juicy texture and mild cucumber like flavour. If you don’t have access to cattails, you can make this salad with different types of cucumber for contrast in flavour and texture.

I wanted to use their cabin tea in the recipe which includes many locally foraged ingredients including Labrador tea and sweet gale, both of which she harvested on our day together. So I tried my hand at a tea infused vinegar which turned out quite beautifully. If you would like to learn more about Isabelle and Namasthé Tea Co. head on over to the story here.

*Of course when out foraging be sure you head out with someone who knows how to identify wild edibles and that you are harvesting in a clean area and with permission.

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Into the Wild with Isabelle of Namasthé Tea Co

 

Isabelle Ranger is an herbalist, forager and teacrafter in the Sea to Sky region of British Columbia and is the owner of Namasthé Tea Co. Her diverse French Canadian, Celtic, Scandinavian, Southern Inuit and Native American heritage brings a very unique perspective and depth of knowledge to the world of plants and to the teas she creates. Isabelle began crafting teas for clients while working as an herbalist in Mt. Currie in 2000 and went on to create Namasthé Tea Co. in 2007. Isabelle and her partner Cédric work together to handcraft small batch teas and tisanes, many of which include wild foraged ingredients they gather with great care and respect in the forests, mountain meadows and bogs of British Columbia.

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