Cooking with fire

My forays into the chipmaking world continue. I narrowly averted a disaster yesterday though. Chips taste nice with spices on them. But since the chips are cooked without oil, spices don’t stick to them after they’ve been cooked. So, why not add the spices before cooking. I tried turmeric on celeriac chips. Luckily I stuck [...]

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Best seat in the house

Tim sang with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra (VSO) this weekend in Burlington and Rutland, VT.  I was his VSO groupie  and traveled to both locations and enjoyed the performances. I hobbled along Church Street in Burlington and shopped.  There’s a great cooking store, where I found crumpet rings. Today I’ll make a batch of crumpets, [...]

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Hopping along

For those of you who have never needed crutches, I hope you stay that way. Whenever I meet someone who has already used them we are instantly bound by a common ground of resourcefulness. Everyone remembers how hard it is to carry a drink from one place to another. People have devised various bags and [...]

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Storing my acorns

It’s all about priorities.  Mine are clearly food and fiber.  I am having minor orthopedic surgery and will be out of commission hopefully for no more than a week.  I’m getting my affairs in order.  I’ve loaded the freezer with easy meals and soup so we won’t be eating “Hungry Man”.  In a pinch we [...]

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Our Daily Bread

I maintain the habit adopted on Deal Island of baking almost all our bread, english muffins and bagels. I’s a good thing since bread always gets crushed in the backpack and we still have to walk over the bridge.   There’s actually very little hands-on time for bread baking and I use a fool proof recipe [...]

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