Our Share of the Harvest

Let me guess–you have a New Year’s Resolution that involves eating more healthfully, incorporating more vegetables and lean protein into your diet, eating more meals at home or trying new recipes to get out of the meat and potatoes rut.  Or maybe you’re like me and think you’re too cool to call it a New [...]

In honor of National Brownie Month (who knew!), Nicole from 7 Ate 9 Bakes gave us the What’s Baking Theme of Brownies.  Which is awesome because I haven’t made brownies in forever.  You’d think brownies wouldn’t fit in very well on a local food blog but, well, you’d be wrong.  Brownies call for a larger [...]

  Each year, I try new Christmas cookie recipes, I rotate through some previous tries and I make 3 must-bake recipes: Peanut Butter Cup Cookies, Chocolate Mint Cookies and Molasses Cookies. The molasses cookie recipe is practically a family heirloom; I got it from my mom who credits her aunt with it–who knows where she [...]

I love love love holiday “bark”.  You know, chocolate slathered out on a flat surface with bits of whatever dropped in and cut into random shards.  It’s rustic and unfussy but really hits a spot that can’t be satisfied by typical Christmas candy or cookies. The last time I tried bark, I used M&Ms as [...]

I know, I know, in the food blogging world, whoopie pies are soooooo 2009 but, in the rest of the world, people are still in awe of creamy icing smooshed inside a cake-like cookie. For my departmental holiday party, employees are implored to make an ethnic dish representing their heritage.  You can imagine that this [...]