Who doesn’t love a good tart cranberry sauce? I do I do! I do love me some cranberry goodness, as I make it all fall & winter long. On meaty sandwiches, on toast, in coconut milk yogurt, baked into my granola, on oatmeal, in my cereal or a dollup on an argula salad. I love…
Tag: Recipes
{from scratch holidays} old montreal fondue
Have you thrown a fondue party yet? No? What are you waiting for? Take the plunge this Thanksgiving by trying out a fondue appetizer while the turkey is in the oven. It’s a great excuse to keep your family and friends lingering around the table, lazily dipping crudite and hunks of warm bread into a…
{from scratch holidays} Cheesy Pumpkin Thyme Crackers
Who doesn’t love crackers? Easy to buy from a store, but boring when you do. Here’s a great way to Do It Yourself when you’re prepping for holiday festivities. You can go the predictable cracker route, but I wanted to try something a little different. I found a couple recipes for crackers, but they mostly…
{FSC Time Machine} Fall Recipes 2010
{Rhinebeck Sheep & Wool Festival, 2010} This blog went public in July of last year with Alexis, Amanda, Leslie & Sarah. A lot has changed since then but I don’t want those early posts to go unnoticed now that we have a larger readership. Today I am dedicating the post to fall recipes & event-recaps…
{Pantry Staple} Perfect Homemade Sandwich Bread
Its pretty simple: I love baking bread and I love eating bread. I bring bread to almost every food swap and am always experimenting with a new kind. Lately, I have been making so much bread, English muffins, biscuits, etc, that I have not purchased any bread products from the grocery store in quite some…
cold & flu season w/ fire cider
I was introduced to Fire Cider (produced by a local place, Shire City Herbals in Pittsfield, MA), a few weeks ago when a friend offered me a few precious shots of his stash after hearing me complain about inflamed lymph nodes in my throat, and the worry of a prolonged oncoming illness. Made with apple…
{edible gift} homemade chai concentrate
As an avid chai drinker, I was ecstatic to stumble upon the realization that I could make my own creamy, spicy chai concentrate! This recipe is a cinch to make- just add the ingredients to a jar and stir- and is a perfect from-scratch holiday gift. You can make several batches at once and bottle…
{DIY Backyard Chickens} Go for it!
So in the first two parts of this DIY series, I’ve shared some of the how-to and what not to do’s of keeping backyard chickens. You may be wondering, though, why bother with backyard hens? Or maybe, like the folks at All Over Albany, you’re thinking that backyard chickens seem like a lot of work. To…
{Mexican Cooking} Chicken Tinga
My son Jacob spent Hurricane Irene with a Mexican friend in Washington Heights, New York City. Jose not only provided Jacob with shelter, he also cooked for him. When I called Jacob to see how he had fared in the storm, he didn’t mention the howling winds or the torrential rain. All he could talk…
{recipe} Butternut Squash Muffins
Editor’s Note: If you attended Honest Weight Food Coop‘s Harvest Fest, then you (hopefully) sampled these muffins before they were gone. For those who have been waiting for the recipe (sorry we ran out of recipe cards too!) here it is… its a keeper in the Fall Season Baked Goods Rotation if you ask me….
{DIY Halloween Candy} Part 2: Lollipops
Last week I showed you how easy it is to make your own Halloween Candy, starting a three part series with the old-school favorite: the peanut butter cup. No longer are you stuck shopping the candy aisles. Now you can have eat peanut butter cups even if you have food allergies, food restrictions, or even…
{meal plan routine} The Buddha Bowl
It’s Monday. You have a whole week of lunches and dinners to plan. Well here’s an idea that is super easy to slip into your weekly rotation: The Buddha Bowl! Make it for dinner and save the leftovers for a lunch that you can eat on the go. I’ve been experimenting with different rice bowl…
{Horn of Africa} Occupy your World…with a recipe!
A reader of this blog that I happen to be acquainted with shared some responses to Dianna’s post from Monday. “I didn’t know From Scratch Club was a political blog.” I don’t think it is, really, but we are a community of writers who share in a sort of hodge-podge way that represents a bit…
{drink it up} Rosie Collins
October is one of the busiest months for me. Well, make that August, September and October. Harvest time in the Northeast starts in August and doesn’t end until past Halloween (I won’t even begin to really harvest my pears until November!). Usually this means just cutting down and picking the wonderful veggies and apples and putting…
{recipe} Curried Butternut Squash Soup w/ Heirloom Tomatoes
I used to be a creative person. For years after completing a bachelors in art I made stuff and found ways to express myself visually. I am no longer like that. I have the usual excuses: child, work, household demands, tv, etc, but really none of them is adequate in explaining my lack of non-verbal…
