Monthly Archives: January 2016
Fudgy Chocolate Truffle Brownies
In my headphones, The Marshall Tucker Band croons “Six long months on a dust covered trail/They say heaven’s at the end but so far it’s been hell/And there’s fire on the mountain, lightnin’ in the air.” Music, like this song that I’ve long loved, can do so many things for us. It can inspire. It can […]
Dried Cranberry Scones
Two generations ago on a farm in Connecticut, my family milked cows in the barn, gathered eggs from the chickens in the coop and plucked apples from the trees in the orchard. Baked goods were made from scratch, often using the moulding board, and kept in the larder. Back then, our family homestead was home […]
Brussels Sprouts Salad with Shallot Vinaigrette
In my most prolific year gardening (by which I really mean the only year that my efforts were mostly successful), when the cucumber vines yielded so many petite pickling cukes that we ate them for a full year and tomatoes plants sagged with the weight of fruit, stalks of Brussels sprouts rose from one of my […]