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

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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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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