This week at the farmers market: 1/24/2009

This week my friend Amy emailed me to see if I wanted to go to the farmers market together today. I wasn’t feeling too optimistic about what we would find there, but I hadn’t seen Amy in ages, so I figured why not? We tried a bunch different sheep’s milk cheeses. I got a piece [...]

Granola Bars Revisited

Last year after much trial and error I came up with a granola bar recipe that I was pretty happy with. But then a coworker started buying these super delicious energy bars by the case. They were basically just nuts and pretzels stuck together with brown rice syrup. I made a mental note to try [...]

Split Pea and Barley Soup

On New Year’s Day I made a big pot of pea soup. It was delicious. The barley adds a nice chewiness, and the bacon is just added at the end, so the bacon naysayers can have theirs plain, leaving more pork of the rest of us.

Ginger Caramels

I know that at this point after the holidays the last thing anyone really needs is another sweet, but these caramels were quite popular at Christmas and I’ve had several requests for the recipe. And surely in the next month or two there will be a cold, windy day when you’ll really have nothing better [...]

Happy New Year!

Bake some bread this year.