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
Papaya Ice Cream with POM Syrup
Posted on Aug 03

Papaya Ice Cream with POM Syrup

I recently received a case of really cute 8 ounce POM pomegranate juices sent to me by the kind people at POM Wonderful. Pomegranates are the mythical or iconic symbol of fertility…… To read more of this review, please visit the Papaya Ice Cream with POM syrup...

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Making Queso Blanco with goat milk
Posted on Jul 23

Making Queso Blanco with goat milk

Wow, our ISP (to remain unnamed for the moment) REALLLLLY screwed us over, on galactic proportions. I feel shaky having come out the other end of this nightmare. My blogs are back and I am hoping our new ISP has more ethics than the last. Today I am going to show...

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Goat Cheese cookbook – a review
Posted on Jun 23

Goat Cheese cookbook – a review

Goat Cheese by Maggie Foard (published by Gibbs Smith in July 1, 2008) is a delightful cookbook that explores a range of ways for using goats milk cheeses. You may remember that we have our own herd of 18 LaMancha dairy goats and that we milk 7 does on a daily...

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Homemade Sprouted Whole Wheat Pasta
Posted on Jun 10

Homemade Sprouted Whole Wheat Pasta

(Ingredients) A couple of posts ago, I showed you how easy it is to make sprouted whole wheat flour. In that post, Making Sprouted Whole Wheat Flour, I talked at length on the reasons for sprouting your grains so I wont delve into that today. Instead, I am going to share...

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Tassajara Cookbook: Lunches, Picnics, and Appetizers
Posted on Jun 05

Tassajara Cookbook: Lunches, Picnics, and Appetizers

Tassajara Zen Mountain Center is the famed mountain retreat of the San Francisco Zen Center. SF Zen center was founded by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi in the 60s. It is a vibrant Zen community (sangha) that has been instrumental in bringing Zen to the West and has served as an important...

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Making Sprouted Whole Wheat Flour
Posted on May 26
by Nika in baking

Making Sprouted Whole Wheat Flour

(Freshly ground sprouted wheat flour in a Vita Mix blender container) I grew up eating rather dense loaves of homemade whole wheat bread that my mom made for us with love. It was the 1970s after all! I NEVER feed my family white bread (pure sugar bombs, straight into the...

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Sandor Ellix Katz and the Wild among us
Posted on May 18

Sandor Ellix Katz and the Wild among us

(Sandor cutting cabbage) It is always inspiring to meet people who are passionate about food. Sandor (Sandorkraut) Ellix Katz, author of Wild Fermentation and The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved, spoke at BU’s “The Future of Food: Transatlantic Perspectives” conference and I snagged a front row seat. Sandor was there...

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BU Future of Food Conference – wild fermentation
Posted on May 07

BU Future of Food Conference – wild fermentation

(Lactobacillus god – Sandorkraut) . A couple of weeks ago, while twittering, I heard about this conference at Boston University called “The Future of Food: Transatlantic Perspectives” which will happen this coming weekend (May 8-9, 2009). Its sort of shocking how close I came to totally missing out on this conference. I...

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Discover Oishii Tasting Event: Wakame salad
Posted on Apr 21

Discover Oishii Tasting Event: Wakame salad

(Amazing Wakame Salad) . Time has really gotten away from me these past weeks so this post is just too long in the coming! . Back on March 16th I visited the International Boston Seafood Show (3rd year in a row!) and was fortunate to be able to attend an evening of meeting the...

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Video of our goats and kids!
Posted on Apr 18

Video of our goats and kids!

Took this video out in our goat shed in our backyard the other...

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