I love the calm that January brings. Winter’s rest is palpable in this little town. Most of our local farm markets have officially closed for the season with their fields resting under blankets of ice and snow. So let’s turn up the heat a bit with this Crock-Pot Pulled Pork…
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Gingerbread Cake with Christmas Jam (Piernik Staropolski)
A classic Polish gingerbread cake recipe, Piernik Staropolski. My daughter’s 5th grade class was tasked with a “Christmas Around the World” project in Social Studies and of the three countries she chose to research, she was granted Poland. Seeing as though my children share in their father’s half-Polish ancestry, we…
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Wassail
“Here we come a-wassailing Among the leaves so green; Here we come a-wand’ring So fair to be seen.” For most of us ‘wassail’ is a word we know from a popular Christmas carol though there’s a good chance that most of us cannot explain what it is – and with…
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Butter Roasted Turkey with Herbes de Provence & Citrus
Butter Roasted Turkey with Herbes de Provence + Citrus has been my traditional Thanksgiving Day turkey recipe since I first began hosting the holiday many years ago. Aromatics are loosely stuffed into the turkey and seasonal vegetables and fresh herbs line the roasting pan – resulting in a tender and…
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Baked Apples
It’s apple picking season! With so many of us heading to the orchards, I wanted to share a quintessential autumn treat, baked apples. Brown sugar, cinnamon & a pinch of nutmeg fill the hollows of cored apples while a homemade buttery crumble tops the apples, seeping into the hollows to…