It’s snowing outside, my fireplace is lit, my dogs are gently snoring next to me, and the mailman just dropped off another load of seed catalogs. It suddenly occurs to me that I haven’t given my impressions of my 2013 farm season yet, and I re-fill my mug of tea and tuck in to share some thoughts with you on just how wonderful this season left us feeling. Read More
A gift of yulekake is a gift of love, devotion, and it means that you are special enough to make someone put their kneading muscles on and bake a loaf, braid, or pan of rolls for you. Read More
This recipe was a complete revelation this summer! A farmers’ market customer alerted us to this great recipe, and we made it several times – it would be a great recipe to use up the rest of your cherry tomatoes this season! Enjoy!
CHERRY TOMATO KETCHUP
NYT: By MELISSA CLARK, June 29, 2012
TOTAL TIME
40 minutes
Yes, I know. Lettuce and cooking sound like they should never be in the same sentence. That is… until you try them grilled. Then you wonder how could it be that you have never tried this before? It is crunchy, but toasty, refreshing and satisfying. Try with any head of lettuce that is crunchy: romaine, crisp, iceberg are all great candidates – save the Bostons, bibbs and… Read More
This has been a magnificent fall, filled with glorious bright shining days, cool nights, and the occasional snow flurry here and there. We have been very busy with a myriad of projects, and have been feeling pretty good about all the things we’ve been doing with our time… Read More
You know the ones. The boxes that I have been meaning to organize, clean up, consolidate, transcribe and get all those scraps onto uniform recipe cards for years now. For some reason, I have been resistant to finally getting the job done and organizing it already, when it hit me: I don’t want to throw away ANY of these scraps of paper. As I looked through all my recipes I made a decision that goes against my personality type, and I am at peace with it: leave the recipe box messy and disorganized. Why? Because my recipe collection is a series of precious memories – every speck of cookie dough on my Mom’s Sugar Cookie card reminds me of baking with my Mom; because I remember every recipe in that box based on how it looks: smudged, folded, on lined paper or a scrap of envelope or torn from a newspaper. Recipes are history… Read More
