A creative twist on a classic pumpkin pie recipe, this kabocha squash pie is flecked with chipotle chili powder, black pepper, and fresh ginger. Jump to recipe. [Read more…]
Flourless Chocolate Cake with Ginger and Sea Salt
A simple flourless chocolate cake recipe made with bittersweet chocolate, ginger, and sea salt, and dusted with powdered sugar.
Tarte Tatin with Homemade Rough Puff Pastry Dough
A classic apple tarte tatin recipe made with homemade rough pastry dough and crisp Jonagold apples.
Buttermilk Apple Cake
A delicious buttermilk apple cake recipe studded with tender apples and topped with sugar and nutmeg.
roasted apple butter + apple crisp ice cream
At the McCarren Park Greenmarket a few years ago, I overheard a woman getting an earful over the phone for suggesting a purchase of non-organic apple cider for a child’s party. She tried to speak up for the local orchard selling cider right there in the market, but this was in the middle of the great apple juice arsenic scare of 2011 and so she lost that battle.
Which is too bad, because the orchard in question was a low-spray orchard that takes a thoughtful approach to integrated pest management. Whatever organic juice the woman bought instead was likely trucked from the other side of the country or even farther away, which has an environmental impact just like pesticides do. And though it may have been organic, it still may not have been as responsibly grown as the cider she was forced to pass up. [Read more…]