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 [...]

Pear-licious recipe development

(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 [...]

Nuts for nutty nut-less decadence
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 [...]

Fresh Is Out: Canned Is In

(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 [...]

Local Food: Brookfield Orchards in Brookfield, MA: a phototour
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 [...]

Fruity stragglers
QueRicaVida.com event in Miami
Posted on May 25

QueRicaVida.com event in Miami

Some weeks ago I was contacted by someone who was in charge of finding and inviting latina bloggers across the US and elsewhere to an event in Miami that introduced the new roll-out of the QueRicaVida.com site. This site is put out by General Mills and is their spanish...

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Other things we do

I thought I would share a video with you that shows a little of what happens here, when I am NOT food blogging. If you are a longer term reader, you know I “homestead” or have a little farm here on our property. We eat local (backyard) eggs from our own...

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¡Que Rica! Meet you in Miami!
Posted on May 04
by Nika in Food Porn

¡Que Rica! Meet you in Miami!

Woo hoo, I have been sitting on this little secret a few weeks. I am attending the roll out event for the QueRicaVida.com site down in sunny Miami, Florida! This event is on May 20th from 6-9 pm at the Downtown Miami Hyatt Hotel Regency. If you live in the area, respond to...

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The Right Equipment
Posted on Apr 27

The Right Equipment

I have been utterly submerged in the process of milking our newly freshened dairy goat herd. We are milking 7 goats now, twice a day, whew. We use a machine that requires washing etc so there is still quite a lot of work to do. Since the kids are not all...

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Sous Vide Bread, I know its odd
Posted on Mar 30
by Nika in bread, product

Sous Vide Bread, I know its odd

Today I am sharing the results of an experiment I recently did while I had access to a trial Sous Vide Supreme unit. To the point, I wanted to see what happened when I used this hot water bath for making bread, something that would not take advantage of...

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Homemade non-kosher matzoh
Posted on Mar 20

Homemade non-kosher matzoh

Sometimes a recipe inspires me to jump up, spend way more energy than I have, to make it immediately. This recipe today was that for me. I watched Mark Bittman’s video on making these non-kosher matzoh which seemed quite easy to make and they look fantastic. There are several things which make...

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Whole Wheat Cheddar Cheese Kefir Irish Soda Bread
Posted on Mar 13

Whole Wheat Cheddar Cheese Kefir Irish Soda Bread

I am part Irish so I have always felt an affinity to St Patricks day. I like it as a mom because its a holiday in early cold spring when you really need it BUT its not all about candy!! I adapted a traditional recipe from this European Cuisines site, it...

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What is hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP)? You know already
Posted on Mar 11

What is hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP)? You know already

You have likely heard about the hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP) shenanigans afoot. A company that makes HVP – Basic Food Flavors – found that its product was contaminated with the pathogen Salmonella Tennessee (thats a specific flavor of salmonella easily ID’d by genetics and the SAME strain that was involved...

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St. Patricks day brisket – sous vide style
Posted on Mar 09

St. Patricks day brisket – sous vide style

[Follow this link for a recipe for Whole Wheat Cheddar Cheese Kefir Irish Soda Bread] St. Patrick’s day is almost here and I feel like I am getting whiplash with how fast this year is passing already! The stores put out St Patrick’s day decorations right after Christmas so by...

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Organic Buckwheat Kefir pancakes with unsulfered molasses
Posted on Feb 28

Organic Buckwheat Kefir pancakes with unsulfered molasses

In an effort to increase the usage of less traditional ingredients in our house, to broaden the kid’s palates, I have been experimenting with buckwheat. Common buckwheat, Fagopyrum esculentum, isnt actually a wheat, its a pseudocereal and is a non-grass broadleaf plant. Other pseudocereals that you may know are amaranth and...

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