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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 Jul 22

by Nika in Food Porn, Metabolism and Nutrition

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I have started a new focus on my blog that pulls together various interests I have that will hopefully be of use to some of you and which will be very important to me. As some of you know, I am a scientist (PhD Cell ad Developmental Biology) so I have a particular skill set that...

Viva Vegan – a cookbook review

When I was offered an opportunity to review the book “Viva Vegan!: 200 Authentic and Fabulous Recipes for Latin Food Lovers” by Terry Hope Romero I was intrigued. Knowing latino cuisine as I do, the thought of a vegan adaptation of this heavily pork laden foodway boggled my mind. ...

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Collaborative Solstice Cake

We had a little party in the garden to celebrate the summer solstice. It was a quick one because I had to milk the goats right after so that I was not doing that in the dark! For this party I made the 1-2-3-4 yellow cake in Joy of Cooking...

23. June 2010Read More

Happy Summer Solstice!

I wish you and your families a bright and joyful summer solstice today! Take a moment to frolic in the sun and to smell the flowers! I will be making some sunny cupcakes for the kids and we will go out into the garden, scarf cupcakes, meditate on the beauty of the...

21. June 2010Read More

Raw kefir chevre (goat cheese) bread

We are making loads and loads of homemade raw goat milk cheese (chevre) around here. Because of this I have to find new and exciting ways to USE the goat cheese, hence today’s recipe. The bread comes out delightfully herby, cheesy, and moist. Super delicious. This bread keeps well in the...

2. June 2010Read More