Our Share of the Harvest

When I first saw this ice cream with ribbons of red raspberry running through it on What’s Cooking, Chicago? I knew I was going to make it.  I had just made the Raspberry Almond Scones and had 1 cup of raspberries left.  I was getting antsy, thinking they were going to go bad.  I’ll freeze [...]

One of my most-used iPhone apps is a comprehensive calorie-counter and exercise log called Lose-It!.  Lose-It! has recently told me that if I want to eat Cherry Two-Bite Brownies and White Chocolate Raspberry Ice Cream (posting next week!), I need to be strategically healthy with my meal choices.  With all these veggies coming in, you’d [...]

There’s a certain traffic light between the farm and our house where I have to turn left.  It’s a long light and the left turning lane has two lanes but one becomes turn-only almost immediately after the light so people like to get in that lane and go super fast to scoot around the people [...]

It was my turn to host What’s Baking and, wouldn’t you know it, my month happened to be July, a huge harvest month and the month of the Maryland Buy Local Challenge (going on now!) so of course I chose the theme “Bake Local”.  Aside from just eating fresh fruit, one of the hardest meals [...]

This summer has brought one cherry dessert failure after another.  First, I made mini cherry pies which ended up delicious but hideous and half-empty because I put in too much filling so cherries and sugar bubbled out of their crust and into my oven.  Then, I made a 9×13 pan of brownies with a layer [...]