I have to admit. The food mill (I frequently forget its name) only comes out of the cupboard this time of year for “Rosie Applesauce” but it is a must for making this applesauce and the kids LOVE to use it. Talk about an upper arm workout. Three kids and one Mama and we all have…
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{Be Adaptable} Coleslaw in a Pinch
So it was the day after pigging out on a dinner of take-out Chinese with weekend guests and we wanted to finish off the leftovers (even though we were still not feeling so good about how it had made us feel the night before). Unfortunately we didn’t have quite enough leftovers to feed us all…
{100th} Post Milestone…Part One
I can’t believe we’ve made it to 100+ posts. In March, I started this blog as an off-shoot of our monthly meetings, purely a way to communicate with each other, in between meetings. My thought was “keep the energy and passion going, sharing recipes, local food events and food musings. No dead air.” We are…
Peaches, peaches and more peaches
As you know from previous post, myself and my family were recently on vacation in Newport, RI. While on vacation we had the time and the opportunity to pick some peaches. This…… was not something that I had ever done before. Always apples, never peaches. I was so excited because for one it’s cool because…
{Roasted} Carrot and Butternut Squash Ginger Coconut Soup
I winged this soup tonight and it was so good that I had to share it immediately without much storytelling. Sounds good right? Just a recipe. I made a quinoa & lamb loaf today, I make one once a week-recipe to follow later week, and I was feeling a side dish. I was in a…
{Weekend} Reading: NATIONAL
I’m not going to lie. The national news links are items I myself want to read this Sunday morning. The recipes and food recall notices have been read and approved (by me). For various reasons, Miles getting his 2 year molars refusing to nap waking nightly every 3 hours, I just didn’t get around to…
{Back to School} I Heart the Crockpot!
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the Crockpot! The crockpot pictured here is from Williams- Sonoma. A beauty isn’t it?! Schools in session! This year ALL three kiddos are at the same school on the same schedule for the very FIRST time. I have done my duty for the past 8 ½ years and am adapting well to…
{FOOD PRESERVATION} freezing corn
As the days of fresh sweet corn come to a close, I wanted to make sure I got this post published. My in-laws grew super sweet corn (not sure how I feel about GM corn, but more on that at another time). I was able to take home and freeze 60 ears. It is such…
Lazy Chef’s Lentil Soup
On many a cold, dreary day, I have found myself looking for a can of prepared lentil soup in my kitchen cabinets. Fortunately, since I seldom think to buy it when I’m at the grocery store, it’s usually not stocked in my home and I am forced to make a much healthier version from scratch. …
{Weekend} Reading: LOCAL EDITION
Honestly, ’tis the season for local food-related events! There is so much going on its hard to keep up. There are festivals, fairs, charity dinners, farm tours. You name it, its going on this fall season. FESTIVALS, FAIRS, HARVEST DINNERS AND CONFERENCES New to this list: Altamont Orchards’s Altamont Apple & Wine Festival at the…
{Tis the Season} Apple Cake
It’s fall and around here in upstate NY the apple orchards are bustling and that means the kids are begging to pick apples. We managed to get out on the last day of summer vacation for a glorious day at Bowman’s Orchards http://www.bowmanorchards.com in Rexford, NY. Let me tell you…as the kiddos get older apple picking…
Quick Tomato Sauce
We’ve been getting a decent pile of tomatoes in our weekly CSA share, and I still can’t believe it took me this long to make the most basic tomato recipe: homemade sauce. I used to do a sauce that was much more complicated (blanch the tomatoes, peel, simmer forever, yadda yadda), but I threw this…
What’s New In Your Kitchen Wednesday
What’s new in my kitchen is actually about seventy or so years old. It’s a Mirro Aluminum Cooky and Pastry Press that belonged to my mother’s mother and has been used to make Christmas cookies for three generations. After my mother married a Jew many years ago, her own passion for making Christmas cookies fizzled…
Tomatos- No, not sauce…….
SANDWICH’S, what to do with the ones that didn’t make the cut, for the sauce. I love all things tomatoes, but I am the WORST tomato grower ever, I mean WORST. This year we planted three different varieties The sauce/ eating tomato I can’t remember the name of, Sun Gold ( Orange Cherry) and Golden…
Pasta!
This is guest blog by my husband. Dan worked for several years in the kitchen at the Franklin Plaza Ballroom and attended culinary school at Schenectady County Community College. He has a ton of kitchen knowledge and I’m constantly consulting him. He is my sounding board for so many ideas and he helps me out…
