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Marta Darby, Brownie Goody Bars and Betty Crocker

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Monday, October 8, 2007

Pear-licious recipe development

(Image from USA Pear media library) Its FINALLY starting to cool off to a seasonal fall temperature around here, helping me feel a bit more in-season. The tree colors peaked this weekend, yesterday was psychedelic with the riotous oranges, yellows, and reds of the sugar maples around here. Other than pumpkins and gourds and squashes [...]

Friday, July 6, 2007

Nuts for nutty nut-less decadence

(Banana tart with soybean praline base, enrobed with banana chocolate sauce) Nuts, especially peanuts and walnuts, are lethal for my oldest child. They are also delicious, found in many of the desserts that make life worth living, and are almost impossible to simulate. I do not like peanut butter, don’t miss it, but I have always felt [...]

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Fresh Is Out: Canned Is In

Because this is my own little nano-bully pulpit, I have to relate something I overheard at the grocery store the other day. I have been trying to come to terms with what was said and how I have been reacting to it, over time. This post is part of that process. Your comments [...]

Friday, April 20, 2007

Local Food: Brookfield Orchards in Brookfield, MA: a phototour

(Apple Dumpling with vanilla ice cream and cheddar cheese) Here in central Massachusetts, we have an abundance of apple orchards. When tourists come to this region in the summer, they expect to do a few very specific things – buy antiques, pick apples, visit 18th century New England at Old Sturbridge Village, and enjoy a rural [...]

Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Fruity stragglers

I am posting a few stragglers that have come out of my recent experiments to wrap them up. Tomorrow I will be going to the Photoshop World show in Boston so I will be a bit out of the loop. I hope to be able to snag some software that I need to get back to [...]

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Posted on Aug 29

by Nika in Food Porn

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Homegrown heirloom tomatoes I don’t know about you but we are about to start a new school year here. If all your dining tables are like mine, they are covered in a motley assortment of new backpacks, crisp new binders and folders, pens, bottles of glue, markers, crayons, the list goes on! On top of these...

Marta Darby, Brownie Goody Bars and Betty Crocker

As you know, I got a chance to go visit the Betty Crocker test kitchens at General Mills this week and I had such fantastic fun! There is quite a lot to talk about, photos to share, video to taunt you with, various topics like recipes, kid friendly adaptations of more...

26. August 2010Read More

Going on a blogger outing to Betty Crocker

The very friendly people at General Mills and particularly Betty Crocker have invited me to come out to their test kitchens to take a stroll about, sit in on some classes they are running for us, and generally take a peek into a company that has been a part of...

19. August 2010Read More

Fresh. Local. Delicious.

Last year, in our garden (see our organic and permaculture homesteading gardening blog here – Humble Garden), we had a catastrophic tomato failure when I lost all 60 home sprouted heirloom tomatoes to the early blight. I had a bonfire and then tried to forget but failed miserably as I mourned...

4. August 2010Read More

Fun with Fashion, for a change

BlogHer, my main advertising network and a fantastic group of people, have included me in their JMS $500 shopping spree contest which I can then offer here. To learn more about this contest visit this page. [This giveaway is now closed] Good...

4. August 2010Read More