A classic apple tarte tatin recipe made with homemade rough pastry dough and crisp Jonagold apples.
poached eggs and rainbow chard on sourdough toast
Perfect your breakfast game with this recipe for poached eggs with runny yolks served atop sautéed rainbow chard and thick-cut toast. Jump to recipe. [Read more…]
rainbow chard and roasted pear salad + weekend links
I love the feeling of getting home after even a short trip. There’s a brief window where all the comforts that you’ve missed trump the endless list of things that need to be done, or organized, or cleaned. I arrived home from a quick trip to Wisconsin last night, and am thrilled to be staring down a fall weekend completely void of plans. On my agenda are things like finishing the girls’ Halloween costumes, buying pumpkins, and traveling to the Blue Ridge Mountains to take in some fall color. But before all that, I’m totally going to sit on the couch with a big cup of coffee and decompress. It’s been a heavy week and I think we all need a little break.
So, let’s leave things at that and get into some weekend reading. [Read more…]
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…]