sumac

Zucchini Chips with Sumac

Our latest favorite snack is zucchini chips with sumac and black pepper. Sumac is high in vitamin C, can be wild-harvested all across North America and gives a delicious tang to the zucchini chips.

These chips are remarkably easy to make and a wonderful way to have a tasty gut-pleasing snack.

  • 3 small zucchini
  • 2 T extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 t sumac
  • 1 t himalayan crystal salt (sea salt is ok too)
  • 1/2 t freshly ground black pepper
Robins Love Sumac

Robins Love Sumac

In the spring the birds feast on the sumac as there isn't much else available. We had a nest under our porch and at one point there were three adult robins feeding these babies, which I thought was pretty strange, but I saw them all at once with insects in their mouths headed for the nest so I wasn' ...