Tag Archives: Food & Recipes

How to Make Amazing Gravy from Scratch

Posted on November 25, 2009 by Rick

Gravy, real gravy, has to be one of the best foods on earth. It makes everything taste better (rice and gravy, potatoes and gravy, stuffing and gravy, bread and gravy, gravy and gravy…yum!). Gourmet machinations just mess it up. It’s …

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Stuffing Wars: Mrs. Cinquino’s Recipe Wins Them All!

Posted on November 20, 2009 by Rick

I grew up with my mother’s favorite stuffing, which is really “potato filling.” I never really liked it, and much preferred my grandmother’s Pepperidge Farm stuffing—even though she would put dried apricots in it. But I never liked either stuffing …

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The Cranberry Sauce Controversy (with Poll and Recipe!)

Posted on November 18, 2009 by Rick

Generally, there are three types of people: Those who won’t eat cranberry sauce at all. Those who like it cooked and gelatinous. And those who prefer their sauce raw. I fall firmly into the raw camp. It is simply not …

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How to Find and Cook an Organic Turkey

Posted on November 16, 2009 by Rick

As Barbra Kingsolver writes so charmingly in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, turkey farming is a brutal business—unless you can find an organic, preferably small-farm, source. My mother raises turkeys every year on her farm, and the birds are surprisingly sociable, friendly, …

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‘Tis the Season for Hot Apple Cider

Posted on November 11, 2009 by Rick

Actually, the season is almost over. That’s why we have to enjoy every second left of apple season, and with it, apple cider both cold and hot. Here in Pennsylvania the leaves have already fallen, and the frost has killed …

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The End of Farmer’s Market Season…Waaaaaaah!

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Rick

November is here, and the last farmer’s market of the season in Emmaus is on the Sunday before Thanksgiving. This week things are already winding down. The vendors are thinning out, and the crowds are filled with hard-core regulars rather …

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Dinner for 23—Part 2

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Rick

Well, actually, it turned out to be dinner for 25 (plus one kid with swine flu quarantined in her room with Ramen noodles). The day of preparation went as planned—except that Wegmans did not have any decent organic grapes. I …

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