Recipes

My local food co-op, the Honest Weight Food Co-op in Albany, NY, is a wonderful source for a fresh and local, pasture-raised turkey which can be ordered a few weeks before the holiday celebration.  For the past few years, this home cook has pre-ordered a fresh turkey from Hidden … [Read more...] about Post-Thanksgiving Turkey Soup Livened Up With Delicious Corn Meal Dumplings

The extended growing season in the Hudson Valley of upstate New York has coincided with this backyard gardener's extraordinary harvest of "volunteer" pumpkins and squashes growing out of a compost bin. For the past few years, there's always been a pumpkin or two. But this year, … [Read more...] about Delicious Use Of “Volunteer” Pumpkins/Squash Growing Out Of Backyard Compost Bin

If there's at least 30 minutes to spare for breakfast, a bowl of homemade oatmeal made with steel-cut oats and topped with walnuts, sliced banana, berries, a sprinkling of ground cinnamon and some plain kefir milk is my go-to edible start to the day. In the Tufts University … [Read more...] about Choose Steel-cut Not Rolled Oats For Your Morning Bowl Of Oatmeal

It was an easy decision to bake up some raspberry walnut muffins as a special treat in late summer given the still bountiful crop of raspberries in my backyard garden in early September in upstate New York. For Thanksgiving a few years ago, I posted a recipe for cranberry … [Read more...] about Raspberry Walnut Muffins Made With Backyard Raspberries Still Bountiful In September

It's been four years since environmental advocacy groups paid for an independent laboratory to test for industrial chemical phthalates in cheese. The testing resulted in the detection of phthalates in 29 of 30 varieties of cheese products. Ten different phthalates in all were … [Read more...] about Michelle Obama’s Cauliflower Mac and Cheese Recipe Tweaked For Local & Artisanal Cheese Lovers