As you may know – or then, as you may not know – I have been trying to exorcise my apple-cinnamon demons by repeatedly making apple-cinnamon desserts. My theory is this: I will either become exhausted of eating the ethereal combination of apples and cinnamon (did I say “ethereal“?), or I am meant to be… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Recipes
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
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