Food

Homemade Apple Butter | An Overnight Slow-Cooker Recipe

Hand-made gifts are fantastic, but who has time, right? Well, this week I took to the airways to demonstrate a way to make a delicious handmade gift while you sleep! It’s my homemade apple butter, made overnight in a slow cooker. Here’s a video of me demonstrating the recipe on New England Cable News. Cooking […]

Food

Pork & Apple Pie with Cheddar-Sage Crust

This recipe for Pork & Apple Pie with Cheddar-Sage Crust — a sweet-and-savory stunner — was inspired by the fruit and meat pies common in British cooking.

Desserts

Christmas Cookies | Pecan Puffs

My all-time favorite Christmas cookie is a recipe that my Aunt Madeline called Pecan Puffs and some people know as Pecan Balls or Meltaways. These simple nutty shortbread rounds, rolled in powdered sugar, look like delicate snowballs and taste like heaven. Here is a perfect example of how a few simple ingredients in the right […]

Food

Homegrown | Matunuck Oysters

Think you know New England shellfish? These gems from Matunuck Oysters in Little Rhody are a new reason to savor the oyster.

Food

Golden Challah Bread | Best Cook

At a Jewish day school in Northampton that her children attended, Simona Pozzetto was known as “the challah lady,” despite the fact that she’d been raised Catholic in Milan, Italy. Her bread was so beloved that some children refused to eat any loaf that wasn’t Simona’s. As it is, Simona’s is an unlikely story. But, […]

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