Cheese, sugary punches and small bites wrapped in puff pastry are staples of the holiday cocktail circuit. If your social calendar has you running from one party to the next you might find yourself living on a diet of hors d’oevres and alcohol. Given the title of this piece you […]
Give this Panang Curry Coconut Cream of Tomato Soup a shot – literally – for your next party. Serve it up in a shot glass tipped with a cilantro leaf.
These mini chicken and red cabbage slaw tacos make a delightful small bite for your next cocktail hour.
At 4pm on Christmas Eve, from 1998-2002 when I worked at my family’s garden center, I would close the front gate. Back in the store I turned off all the lights – except for the 20 or so trees in the Christmas shop – and, marking the close of a […]
I thought bottled sweet chili sauce was full of nasty chemicals and additives. Boy was I wrong (but this homemade version still tastes better!)
Oh, who am I kidding? Last week’s #testkitchen was one of the easiest and enjoyable nights of my life. When your cheesemaker transplant friends from the Pacific Northwest, Genvieve and Conan, show up bearing gifts of PCN cheeses and wine pairings. Then bringer of joy and sanity, nutrition coach/dietician Allison […]
Thanksgiving dinner prep can be stressful. It’s probably the biggest menu and the largest piece of protein you will tackle all year. It doesn’t help that most of the work traditionally happens in the oven, from roasting the turkey, squash and root vegetables, to baking off sweet potatoes, stuffing and […]
head to the kitchen and grab a pomegranate. Cut it in half. Hold one half, cut side down, inside a large bowl and begin to beat on the skin with wooden spoon. Soon the seeds will begin to drop saving you the juicy mess and additional frustration of picking them out with your fingers.
GoldRush (yes, that’s how it’s spelled) apples appeared at my local farm market about 5 years ago and took off, an overnight success. Sort of. The first seedling of GoldRush was planted at the Purdue University Research Farm in Lafayette, Indiana in 1973. Seven years later it was selected as […]
Every choice we make is an opportunity to elevate our lives, to choose something meaningful, to choose better. Shopping and connecting at farm markets is one of those choices.
