A Guest Blogger with A Message

Today on Mark Bittman's Blog I read this letter which was written to a well-known chef and soon to be sent to many others. The letter was written by George Fasion who is the co-founder of D'Artagnan. If you are not familiar with D'Artagnan's quality meat products check out the website, you will be hooked. The pates are unbelievable and may be found locally at Healthy Living Market along with duck fat, duck bacon, and sausages all from D'Artagnan.

Hey Chefs:

This note explains my thinking about why I believe that you should be pursuing clean agricultural ingredients as standard practice in your restaurants.

Pumpkin Is Not Always Pie

What a colorful time of year! Here in my kitchen I am celebrating all the wonderful foods of the harvest.

This morning a batch of apple chips came out of the oven after drying for 15 hours with the heat of the pilot light. They are delicious!  Also, my chef's garden produced some amazing varieties of pumpkins this year and they are lined up ready to be cooked. 

Today is the birthday of celebrated chef and author Molly Katzen. Molly's recipe for pumpkin pie was

Announcing Downloadable Butchering Viedos

Cole and I are happy to announce that the team behind the The Gourmet Butcher have made the video segments available download. Enjoy!

Chicken Milanese with Tomato Salad

Hello cheese lovers. For those of you who are not signed up for the Vermont Cheese Council's informative monthly newsletter, here is my recipe that featured in September's newsletter. Sign up here.

Vermont Public Television

Last week I performed a cooking segment for Vermont Public Television. This will be aired multiple times and is part the the VPT Cooks fall fundraiser drive. When I was a little squirt I spent part of my weekends watching the cooking shows on Chicago Public Television. Perched on our kitchen counter, I 

A Spanish Love Affair

O & CO Castillo de Canena Olive Oil

Fresh and grassy olive oil leaves a tingle in your throat, opposite of a smooth and buttery Tuscan olive oil. Similar to wines, climate and region determine the olive oil's taste. I am grateful for the many health benefits extra virgin olive oils share with us.

Just Peachy

Old fashioned is the way someone may describe my summer and I may have to agree after this day of canning. It was a warm Saturday in August and I was on a mission to can peaches, after getting lost I

Hot But Fun!

Hot was the way to describe the day of my garden tour. Roughly eighty people toured the gardens and gratefully sipped homemade lemon-thyme lemonade. By the end of the day I was ready to sit and relax with family and friends and enjoy the feast Prince Charming cooked. A pork shoulder from Sweet

Lavender Orange Shortbread

Lavender is easy to grow and in June, beautiful fragrant flowers line the tops of the plant. Lavender is a perennial and should (smiles) come back year after year. Drying the flowers is easy and best to do

Chef's Garden Tour

As I traveled up through Vermont to Maine on a recent trip, I noticed a tremendous amount of noncommercial vegetable gardens. It was a gorgeous June Sunday and out the car window I saw all ages working on small home garden plots with shovels and hoes. Thrilled at the thought of more people