Our friends Jared and Shannon of Taproots farm had their first chicken butchering of the season on Friday and we lucked out: only one of the birds had not already been spoken for and he was a big one–at least seven pounds, I’m guessing. Brother-in-law Tom went to work turning that chicken into the dinner […]
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St. Patrick’s church in Cambridge recently celebrated its annual “Strawberry Festival,” which turns out to mean strawberry shortcake with a choice of sponge cake, angel food cake or shortcake biscuit. I chose the biscuit, thinking of the way we like to serve strawberry shortcake at our home. As you can see in the photo above, […]
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Could this possibly be the best pork barbecue in Upstate New York? Recently a crude, handwritten sign advertising barbecue appeared outside the Masonic lodge in Coila, a small crossroads on the edge of Cambridge. Then one day driving past I noticed a man in shorts kicking back in a lawn chair next to a strange […]
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