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
POM Iced Coffee
Posted on Oct 27

POM Iced Coffee

Does the idea of mixing pomegranate juice with iced coffee make your eyes bug out like the cute little lamby slippers above? POM has done this craaazy thing with their POM iced coffees. .. (click for more)...

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Fermented Colombian Sausages: Salchichas
Posted on Oct 10

Fermented Colombian Sausages: Salchichas

When I went to see Sandor Ellix Katz speak about Wild Fermentation (Sandor Ellix Katz and the Wild among us) I heard him mention that he was getting into wild fermented meats. This reminded me of my childhood when we would make Colombian fermented sausages called salchichas or chorizos. I...

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Samsung Range and Microwave Spectacular
Posted on Oct 05
by Nika in review

Samsung Range and Microwave Spectacular

(This is a compensated review from BlogHer and Samsung Home Appliances) [This contest is now CLOSED. Please click here to see who the winner was.] At the end of this post I will share with you how you can win a $200 gift certificate from BestBuy! You will see that you’ve got...

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Are you a frugaltarian?
Posted on Oct 04
by Nika in recipe

Are you a frugaltarian?

If you choose to delve deeply enough, you will find a food-atarian of every sort out there! If you are a foodie, you like know most of the sorts, I dont need to get pedantic about it. Amongst the various types of -tarianisms that I play with, the one that...

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Tassajara Vegetarian Whole Wheat Lasagna
Posted on Sep 24

Tassajara Vegetarian Whole Wheat Lasagna

Some time ago I reviewed a cookbook called “Tassajara Cookbook: Lunches, Picnics, and Appetizers” by Karla Oliveira where I covered Tassajara, a magical mountain retreat for the San Francisco Zen Center. Today’s review covers the related book Tassajara Dinners & Desserts by Dale and Melissa Kent, a beautiful and delicious cookbook...

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Heads Up: Pastrami Passion
Posted on Sep 17

Heads Up: Pastrami Passion

Some time ago I had the great fortune to meet Dan Estridge on the web and then at a Dole & Bailey event up in New Hampshire (see my blog post from that event: Cross Species Portraiture: The Chicken was a Star). I can tell you at least one thing about...

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Edamame: homegrown, organic, delicious
Posted on Sep 15

Edamame: homegrown, organic, delicious

In my garden (Humble Garden) I grew soybeans this year. They are open pollinated non-genetically modified and organically grown. They have been fascinating to grow and have been a continual homeschool lesson for the kids. Sprouting Growing Almost blooming on the top. But wait, thats not the only place! Fuzzy, disturbingly so, pods. They grew quite...

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You CAN have fun canning!
Posted on Sep 01

You CAN have fun canning!

I had the most brilliant Sunday at the Canning-Across-America Canvolution event with a group of people who were so fantastic and so interesting I didn’t want to leave. But we worked so hard canning so many things and the kitchen was such a BEAST that by the time that things...

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Peach Mint Preserves
Posted on Aug 27

Peach Mint Preserves

In concert with the Can Around the Nation canning event this weekend (see this post for more details Join the Canvolution!) in Somerville, MA where I will be teaching pressure canning, I am sharing a review of a cookbook I received on putting up food! The cookbook is called Putting Up:...

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Join the Canvolution!
Posted on Aug 16

Join the Canvolution!

So by now, even MY garden (Humble Garden) is starting to produce, after months of rain of biblical proportions. My pickling cucumbers are growing, green beans and lemon cukes are whats for supper, and zucchinis are starting to really outpace our intake! Anyone who gardens will eventually need to...

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