Vermont Cheddar and Spinach Custard | Serves 4 Spinach and winter greens are the mainstay of most winter farmers markets, which is why I’ve been making Vermont Cheddar and Spinach Custard for dinner at least once a week. Not only is it easy to make, but also lovely to serve either in the ramekins or inverted onto a […]
Fireplace Cookery
The art of FIREPLACE COOKERY may be lost with the current panoply of modern appliances, yet it if you can only imagine what it must have been like to feed a family with what seems like such primitive tools, it is lesson in culinary prowess. In your minds eye, strip the layers of sheet rock […]
Roasted Vegetables
You might think that ROASTED VEGETABLES do not need a recipe, and in theory, I agree. Yet too many cooks will mask vegetables with a fancy sauce, so I offer this recipe to prove that vegetables, when slowly roasted, have extraordinary power to please. Not every vegetable can be roasted with success, however, and this […]
Winter Food
WINTER FOOD, when eating with the seasons was once a way of life. It’s below freezing with a fresh dusting of snow, and finding a parking spot is a bit tricky. Yet cars are wedged between snow banks and there is a well-tromped path leading into the front door of the winter farmers market. Shoppers […]
Artful Kitchen Gardens
ARTFUL KITCHEN GARDENS. I’ll admit that I get my best ideas while in the garden, and one day I realized that everything I knew about gardening, I actually learned in art school. Here’s my top 10 things I learned in art school, to help you stay organized and creative in in your kitchen garden. One: […]
Dessert for Dinner
DESSERT FOR DINNER can be anytime, yet when the children were little, I would often serve dessert for dinner during the month of February. We called it the backwards month, because DESSERT FOR DINNER was my attempt to make dinner fun by starting from the end. There are many dessert options that contain healthy ingredients such […]
Food Gardens
FOOD GARDENS. Perhaps of all the arts, gardening is the only one that smiles on imitation, and lends itself to the recreation of whatever the gardener might adopt from other gardeners. How else can we all start with the same three ingredients: seeds, plants and soil, yet the results are always different? Our gardens are […]
Winter Fruit
Winter fruit is fresh fruit captured in frozen bags, that often drift to the bottom of the freezer in forgotten disarray. We all know that fruit is at its best during the height of the season, yet somehow it seems logical to freeze extra pints of raspberries, strawberries and blueberries. But frozen berries lose their […]
Ginger Snaps
Makes 4 dozen cookies Ginger snap cookies have been standard New England fare for decades. I’ve added more ginger and other spices, with a crunchy dusting of sugar. Tempting as an afternoon snack, or better yet, stuff the ice cream inside two cookies to make a sandwich. This recipe makes a big batch, so plan […]
Carrot Orange Marmalade
Landscape Design
LANDSCAPE DESIGN involves listening and observing the world and imagining new ways to sculpt the earth in subtle ways to engage curiosity, and connection. It also requires exploring different ideas on paper, and not just falling back on the most familiar square or rectangle for planting a kitchen garden. Too often I see kitchen gardens […]
Cheddar Popover Recipe
