Kim will grind foraged acorns to make flour, she’ll travel for raw milk to make buttermilk, even the ketchup comes from her appliance-packed kitchen, which includes coffee and flour mills, dehydrators and ice cream makers. Below we share her granola recipe, which relies on ripe bananas for sweetness. Below that is the entire list of what’s in her garden … this year.
Kim Dyla’s Granola Recipe
10 cups rolled oats
1 cup unsweetened coconut
1 cup sunflower seeds
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup slivered almonds
3 overripe bananas
1 cup dates, pit removed, chopped
½ cup water
1 teaspoon salt
Preheat oven to 275 F. Put bananas, dates, water and salt in blender and blend. Put oats, coconut, seeds and nuts in a large bowl and mix. Mix wet and dry ingredients. Spread on two cookie sheets. Bake for about two hours. Timing will vary based on wetness of mixture. Stir every 30 minutes. When granola is golden and dry, turn off oven. Leave pans in the oven for granola to finish drying. Store in an airtight container.
Herbs
Chinese Chives
Chives
Cilantro
Dill
Lavender
Lemon Grass
Mint
Parsley
rosemary
Sage
Sorrel
Thai Basil
Thyme
Vegetables
Acorn squash
Asparagus
Black oil sunflowers
Broccoli
Cabbage
Carrots
Chinese long beans
Corn (Cherokee white eagle, dent, strawberry, popcorn)
Daikon radish
Garlic
Kabocha squash
Leeks
Lettuce
Long Island cheese pumpkin
Onions (red, yellow)
Peppers (peppers (habanero, jalapeño, cubanelle, sweet and Thai)
Potatoes (fingerling, green mountain, purple Viking, yellow finn and sweet)
Rhubarb
Shallots
Soybeans
Spinach
Tatsoi
Thai eggplants (long green, round green)
Purple tomatillos
Tomatoes
Weed and Vines
Hops
Lambs quarters
Purslane
Beans
Cherokee trail of tears black beans
Cow peas
Garbanzo beans
Scarlet runner beans
Tarbais beans
Fruit, berries and nuts
Almond tree
Asian pears
Bartlett pears
Black currants
Black raspberries
Blackberries
Blueberries
Boysenberries
Champagne currants
Cherries
Crabapple
Cranberries
Elderberries
Figs
Kaffir limes
Gooseberries
Huckleberries
Kiwis
Lingonberries
Meyer lemons
Moringa trees
Mulberries
Peaches
Red currants
Red raspberries
Salal
Service berries
Strawberries
Watermelon (moon & stars, yellow)
