FRIED COFFEE

January, February, and March is when a really good bowl of stew takes the chill right out of the air. It’s a pretty easy way to put together dinner; a little trimming, chopping, and prep and you’ve got dinner in the pot.  The smell of stew simmering throughout the day just seems to lift my [...]

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Roast duck and ginger, with fingerling potatoes, and green peppercorn sauce. Grilled Bosc pears & raw cranberry salsa. Done over a hardwood fire.

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Anyone in the food service industry will attest to the value of coffee for hyper-active shifts. I still drink a lot of coffee and have taken to playing with a variety of flavors to enhance my intake experiences. My most frequent combination is baking cocoa and almond extract, put it in the pot prior to [...]

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Springerle cookies were my run-away favorite Christmas treat.  They were nice right out of the oven, however, the real enjoyment was only experienced after they sat a tantalizingly long period of time.   To this day they are about the only anise flavored thing I like. What a beautiful creation they are, and the aroma whilst [...]

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It was called cocoa when we were kids. It was always a welcome treat after ice skating at The Reservoir in the 1950′s.  The park is a mere semblance of itself now. Gone is the fountain, the reservoir structure, and the warming hut seen in the background, with its wood burner going full blast to [...]

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When I saw the link to Desserts That Fall From the Sky,  by Eliza Barclay in Washington D.C. , I was curious.   They’ve got snow for sure in those parts. Ms. Barclays article took me down memory lane and then some.   Follow the links. After reading the article  I got curiouser and Googled snow [...]

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A Lass Wi’ A Tocher Type: Song Tune: Ballinamona Ora.(listen here, scroll down 1/2) Awa’ wi’ your witchcraft o’ Beauty’s alarms, The slender bit Beauty you grasp in your arms, O, gie me the lass that has acres o’ charms, O, gie me the lass wi’ the weel-stockit farms. Chorus-Then hey, for a lass wi’ [...]

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It makes my tongue dance when, while trolling the web I come across something truly nifty. Such was the case when I read an article by Patricia Jinich, ( More chorizo to love),  in The Washington Post.   I happen to be a big fan of chorizo in every last one of its forms. Ms. Jinich [...]

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According to the weather people we are about to get one whopper of a storm.  It’s a fact of life here in New Hampshire that storms = power outages. I’ve got a generator to power my heater fan.  Three old oil lamps.  A box of candles.  The larder’s stocked with cheese, sardines, crackers, canned tuna [...]

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I came across an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer about Chef  Aliza Green and her experiences teaching high  and junior high school students about cooking and Jewish culture. The article is well worth reading,  and I ended up checking out her blog and really got interested. Check out the herb guide. Her book on herbs [...]

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