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Knowledge & Wisdom: Storing Excess Fresh Eggs
A glut [of excess eggs from your chickens] in late spring and early summer can be used in the early fall. Old-timers sometimes preserved their surplus by packing eggs in sawdust, small ends down. Or they applied a protective coating of oil or grease and packed the eggs in bran and salt. One cookbook of […]
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Chopsticks
Photo snapped of a friend dining with chopsticks
In 2006, Laurie Lufkin won a blue ribbon at the Topsfield Fair with this recipe. The next year, she submitted 15 recipes and won 12 blue ribbons, all of which set her forth on her prize-winning path. Recipe:
When Laurie Lufkin was little, her folks would buy subs from the local deli, the family would all pile into a boat with drinks, a big pot, and a bag of steamers, and they’d head downriver to the vast white dunes of Crane Beach. Her father owned the marina here, and her grandparents lived across […]
Yesterday it felt like summer, today it’s back to early spring. My appetite goes all over the map during these in-between weeks. One day I want hearty food, the next day light. The same thing happens in the early fall, when we’re still eating summer tomatoes and peaches, but starting to see squashes at the […]
One of the upsides to our recent trip to Montreal was the chance to stock up on some excellent Quebecois hard ciders. I say “hard cider” here because we’re talking about the alcoholic product, not pressed apple juice. It drives cider-makers crazy that people use the same word for both products, pointing out that we […]
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How the Pickiest Pick Produce
Of course, today’s supermarkets have already narrowed your fresh fruit and vegetable choices for you—and you don’t have to worry about such nuisances as weevils or borers in the produce on most grocery shelves. Just about anything you buy will be uniform and good quality. but there are ways to choose the tastiest of what’s […]
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Jars Of Syrup
Taken at Steve’s Sugar Shack in Easthampton, MA.
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Sugar On Tap
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Gourmet Getaway
Last Saturday, my husband and I dropped our son off at my sister’s house in Lake George, NY so that we could savor a single kid-free night in Montreal while he enjoyed some cousinly mayhem. We haven’t yet taken any longer grown-up vacations, though we know plenty of people who enjoy week-long trips away from […]