This is the third Thursday in November, and while you all may be thinking that marks the one week countdown to Thanksgiving – which is correct, of course – but while you are thinking this, the wine world is flipping its collective lid (or popping its collective cork, however you’d like to think of it)… Continue Reading
Author Archives: Amy
A Lovely Side Dish or Vegetarian Option for Turkey Day
Approximately one week from now, everyone reading this, and everyone they know, and everyone they know, and so on and so forth, will be standing in a kitchen full of chopped onions, dried bread, poultry seasoning, chicken broth, sweet potato, pecans, butter, canned pumpkin puree, brown sugar, maple syrup, flour strewn about, peeled apples –… Continue Reading
Not My Nana’s Red Sauce and Jan’s Meatballs
My grandmother owned a red sauce Italian restaurant when I was growing up. I don’t mean the chain restaurant here in Massachusetts, Red Sauce, I mean a good, old fashioned Italian-American restaurant with those rough translations from southern Italian cuisine to the mid-twentieth century American idea of Italian food. And I loved it. To judge… Continue Reading
An Untraditional Bolognese Sauce
Today is the last day for my garden. It’s going to be 28 degrees here overnight, and 20 degrees overnight on Wednesday, so this afternoon, I marched out to what’s left of the garden with scissors in hand and harvested the remainder of the lettuce – which yielded me an entire plastic shopping bag of… Continue Reading
Putney Mountain Winery Apple Maple Wine and Cassis Wine
I keep getting distracted from this wine post, and it is a great injustice to the wine, let me tell you. Yesterday it was the savory pie crust, which, I assure you, you cannot live without. Today it’s been espresso that’s kept me from the blog. I’ve been out of my favorite espresso for about… Continue Reading