With peach season in full swing, you may be finding some very large, heavy peaches out in the orchard. That might get you wondering, “How heavy can peaches get? What’s the world record for world’s heaviest peach?” Paul Friday can…
When you think about cooking with apples, what kinds of recipes spring to mind? Maybe your grandmother’s apple pie recipe, or that apple crisp you always whip up in the fall? Or perhaps the applesauce that makes your kitchen smell like cinnamon?…
“Baking asks you to think,” says Pastry Chef Instructor Diana Penn, CEPC, CCE who led a Weaver’s Orchard cooking class this Tuesday, teaching participants to make blueberry crostata with sweet corn ice cream and grilled pound cake with no-churn peach…
**Please take care to follow current USDA safety guidelines when preserving foods at home.** * * * I began working with Don and Pam Gable of Conebella Farm in January 2014, and immediately, I knew it was going to be…
Many Weaver’s Orchard customers know that we use our fresh fruit in our own cider and applesauce, blending several varieties to achieve the perfect sweet-tart balance in each. Many of you know we blend our apples into homemade apple butter and…
What’s one of the best things that can happen to an adventurous home cook? Discovering a new favorite meal and living far away from the restaurant that makes it! Last week, Sheri Karan from Blind Spot Nutbutters shared how she…
Sheri Karan of York describes herself as a “do-it-yourself” kind of person. For years, she has not only made her own bread, but also used a flour mill to grind grain into flour for that bread. She likes to grind things.…
“Whenever we have overnight guests,” says my mother, Nancy Tirrell, “we treat them to waffles for breakfast. My favorite part of this tradition is that my husband takes charge of the waffle iron.” Mother’s Day should be a time when…
The first major crop of the local produce season is a paintbrush. Can’t you imagine holding a stalk of asparagus in your hand, dipping it into a palette, and brushing it across a canvas? The first major crop of the local…
Raita makes me think of warm days, and warm days are what I am wishing for right now, as April tries its best to stop shivering. The first time I ate raita–a traditional Indian yogurt-based side dish– it was with…