Brie en Croute – oozy cheese in a crispy buttery crust – I had you at oozy! It’s critical, during the holidays, to have one show-stopping snack up your sleeve for entertaining. A round of brie makes serving hors d’oeuvres … Continue reading
Banana Bread, again? you ask. Fair enough. I have written more posts about Banana Bread than anything else because I always have ripe bananas in my freezer. Once our bananas reach a certain brown speckles to yellow skin ratio into the … Continue reading
I was ready to hang myself Sunday, after the fifth batch of popovers bombed. I can make these suckers in my sleep, but for some reason the magic failed me. We were prepping the new menu at Billy’s Seafood Company. Each member … Continue reading
My kitchen looks like a bomb went off, when I cook. Summer’s winding down leaving us short on time to spend with friends here at the farm, so we doubled booked this weekend. Friends over-night Friday then different friends over-night … Continue reading
For the last two weeks, an increasingly pervasive, sweet fragrance saturated the air in my kitchen. Not from the stone-ware pitcher of lilacs sitting in the middle of the table but rather, from a bunch of bananas rotting on my … Continue reading
Blue Sky Bakery Bran Muffins; fuel for insane schedules. I’m on a ‘what-to-eat-for-breakfast kick lately. Its my schedule. I’m not whining. I love being busy but lately my busy has morphed into insane. We’re preparing to sell Carmarthen St., renovations start … Continue reading
AVOCADO TOAST makes an awesome, brilliant, simple and quick breakfast! If you’re anything like me weekday breakfasts are tough. I’m usually in too much of a hurry to cook anything. I get sick of cereal. Mostly, I skip brekkie and … Continue reading
Rhubarb Scones with Strawberry Butter are a delicious way to jazz up your brunch menu. I love brunch. Actually, I love brunch food. I’m starving when I wake up, which is usually hours before any respectable brunch is served, so … Continue reading
It’s summer and that means it’s bread making season. You would think that the winter would inspire me to bake lovely homey loaves of hot steaming bread to warm up our frozen spirits. But no; I make bread in the … Continue reading
I love making banana bread. Not because it is effortless or because it’s delicious. Banana ‘anything’ completely appeals to my frugality. You have to use over ripe bananas. The more disgusting the bananas look; the better they will be in whatever you are baking. If a … Continue reading
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