Recently Ella asked what a chicken nugget was and in one of those parenting moments when you realize so many things all at once, I thought about how sheltered she is, how lucky she is, how proud I am of the choices we are able to make and also, how sad that she doesn’t get [...]
The Rockland Farmer’s Market opens today and through no fault of my own, coincides perfectly with this weeks column in the PPH about salads and greens. With all of the micro and baby greens available to us this time of year, the old stand by of tomato, cucumber and lettuce salads dressed with ranch should [...]
Crêpes are one of those ultra versatile meals that can go fancy breakfast or quick weeknight dinner, sweet or savory, planned or using up bits of leftovers. The recipes in the column today tend more toward the informal, however, the one my family has used for years on Christmas Day is as elegant as it [...]
If there are any of you who don’t have one of my cookbooks, At Home, At Sea, yet, here’s your chance to win a free one! Blogger of Delicious Musings is offering a free cookbook to the best comment made on a post of my recipe Dill, Lemon and Goat Cheese Pesto. It ran in [...]
Many of my grandma's baking recipes called for sour milk, the modern equivalent of which is buttermilk. You can cause milk to sour by adding one tablespoon vinegar or lemon juice to 1 cup of milk, but you need to use a little bit less of the created buttermilk because it's a little thinner than [...]
When, in my most recent PPH column on no knead sourdough bread, I offered to send a bit of my 100 year old sourdough starter to anyone who wanted it, I had no idea the response would be so great! Usually when I offer to send something to readers I get four or five requests. [...]
