Monday, August 13, 2012

Tomato Harvest; Camping Foods; Lobsters


What to do with your eggplant harvest: Make Jam

What I'm doing with my tomato harvest: Paste, V8, soup, and sauce

Is your ipod getting to much flour and grease on it? Try this

Perfect for picnics and camping - Mason jar whipped cream

Does your mail smell like food? Maybe because 

Is that ash on your food? Yes It's a new trend with chefs.

Recipe of the month.

Going camping? Meet gourmet camping food.

In case you're at Wendy's in Japan. Hope they are paying top dollar for that lobster since record breaking hauls in Canada and Maine are being reported.

Monday, August 6, 2012

Corn Chowder My Way (video)


Recently the girls at WCAX and I made one of my favorite summer soups, corn chowder.
Click here to watch us make this delicious recipe.


Monday, July 30, 2012

A Tour Of The 2012 Vermont Cheese Festival


The Vermont Cheese Makers Annual Festival is always on my summer calendar. Prince Charming and I slowly walk the big festival tasting and buying wonderful cheeses from the area. This is also a

Sunday, July 8, 2012

How Wacky Does Your Ice Cream Get?



From left: Todd Heisler; Christopher Gregory; Sara Krulwich  
So far this summer is all about wacky and sophisticated ice cream flavors. Here's a recent story out of the New York Times that highlights more sophisticated flavors like tart pink lemonade and intense

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Green Tomato Relish


Green Tomato Relish

3-4 medium green tomatoes, small diced
1 1/2 teaspoons coarse sea salt

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Knee High By 4th Of July




As the saying goes "corn should be knee high by fourth of July", so as we drove through rural Vermont yesterday (pretty much anywhere in VT),  I was checking in on the corn fields and sure

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

2012 Clean 15 And Dirty Dozen List Just Released!



Watch out for those free apples at the spa, if not organic or from a local grower you trust, they sit top on the list of foods with the most pesticides. Instead, snuggle up to the clean 15 list which are lowest in pesticides. 

Click here to view 2012's complete Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 rundown.  

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Corn Tortillas (video)




Cooking with the crew at WCAX is always fun! Is it just me or does Keagan need 
more practice with corn tortillas? Follow my events page to see when I'm on again.

Monday, June 4, 2012

An Old Fashioned Treat Made Healthy



Lemon Ginger Drop Biscuits
makes about 12

1 cup all-purpose flour
2/3 cup cake flour
2 tablespoon chopped candied ginger

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Seven Vaults


The seven underground vaults at Jasper Hill Cellars house Vermont's finest aged cheese. Thanks to a weekend I spent at Shelburne Farms called "Pasture To Palate", I and a few others were lead on a private tour of this remarkable (not open to the public) facility in Greensboro, VT.  It's