Pictorial essay sounds pretty fancy, doesn’t it? I thought it best to illustrate the entire Turkey-in-a-hole-in-the-ground process with photos for those of you who want to pull these shenanigans off yourself next year. It starts with a large, fresh bird. This year, our bird was 30 pounds. One year we commissioned a bird from my… Continue Reading
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The dough is your friend.
I interrupt the normally scheduled Thursday wine post to bring you this very important recipe. Very important. People, we need to talk about savory pie crust. And I have to tell you, I’m rather excited about the Putney Mountain Winery Apple Maple wine that was scheduled for this posting, but it is far more important… Continue Reading
A little beasty
Tuesday evening, I concocted a little monster. A sourdough starter, consisting of just water, yeast, sugar, and flour be the beast. The lone citizen review I saw on the recipe page for the starter said something about homeschooling and “at least it will be an interesting science project”, though she did say she’d only made… Continue Reading
A Curd in Hand: A Cheesemaking Trip to Major Farm
I wrote this over a year ago, on May 15, 2007. JR joined me on a trip to Major Farm in Putney, Vermont, taken by my cheese class at Boston University, rather than play golf in a tournament he’s played in for years, which garnered him much ribbing from his golfing buddies. You know, I… Continue Reading