Here’s how two very different ideas converge to make dinner. Our friend Mary is visiting from California and she brought a suitcase full of her favorite wines for us to try. Since we have so often complained about not being able to find a reliable Pinot Noir, Mary brought one she thought we were sure […]
South Mountain Creamery, where we subscribe for weekly dairy deliveries, also sells meat products from its own grass-fed cattle. We couldn’t resist putting burgers on the menu for the 4th of July, especially my wife’s special stuffed burgers. The stuffing starts with creamed cheese–just the thing to add a little unctuousness to that lean, grass-fed […]
Garlic planted in the fall overwinters and should be ready to harvest sometime in early summer. Yesterday we gathered 40 heads of garlic from a bed outside our front door. This is a softneck variety. Originally we had planned on planting hardneck garlic, which produces delicious scapes or flower stalks, but our favorite seed source–Southern […]
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