Category: Recipe
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Cranberry Sauce
This year for the Cranberry Sauce, we tinkered and went with Cranberry-Apple. Replaced the orange with all apple, and used a cup of hard cider from the East End Brewing Co. for the liquid. Also, we used all brown sugar and a heapin’ T. of ground cinnamon. Just saying. The pan in the foreground has […]
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Your Thanksgiving Shopping List, Part 1: Cranberry Sauce
Make your own cranberry sauce. Do not–for the love of your petty, vengeful, god–serve your guests that jiggly canned cranberry atrocity. He will smite you, if you do. I promise. I grew up thinking that the stuff in the can was how cranberry sauce was–a “square earth” belief if ever I’ve had one–even though I […]
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Make A Pizza Night–Cooking Yer Pie
The Make a Pizza Night Post will appear Sunday around 7pm–at which point this sentence will turn into a link Okay, so you’ve got your ingredients and you’re ready to go. Here are a few final notes. 1. Preheat your oven a little longer than you think is necessary. 2. If you’re using a pan, […]
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I Dare You To Make A Pizza Night–Sauce
The Make a Pizza Night Post will appear Sunday around 7pm–at which point this sentence will turn into a link I’m serious, man. Make a pizza tonight. Sauce. You can get some damn fine sauce at the store, but part of the joy of pizza is the path you take to get there, so […]
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Remember: Sunday Night Is I Dare You To Make A Pizza Night
The Make a Pizza Night Post will appear Sunday around 7pm–at which point this sentence will turn into a link Make a pizza. Post a link on the Pizza Post that will appear on this blog Sunday Night. It’s a double dog dare–you can’t refuse. If you must, shortcuts are allowed: pre-made crusts, sauce from […]
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Autumn Photo: Hemingway’s Bloody Mary
Ernest Hemingway didn’t invent Autumn’s most iconic cocktail–that distinction is rumored to belong to Ferdinand “Pete” Petiot, a Parisian bartender looking for ways to dress up vodka for Russian immigrants and American expatriots on the lam from Prohibtion–but the iconic American author, and legendary drinker, has been inextricably tied to the Bloody Mary thanks to […]
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Ewing’s Mill Cornmeal Pancakes
Ewing’s Mill was a working, historic water-powered grist mill in our county when I was young. At some point it closed, and remained so for several years. Before plans to revive it could be brought to fruition an idiot drove his coal truck into the structure, doing considerable damage, and it again sat idle. Finally, […]
Old Road Apples 