When cherry season rolls around, I can’t help but stock my freezer with delicious hand-picked cherries to enjoy all year long. I’ll use them in recipes like this simple cherry sorbet, or mixed with raspberries or strawberries in a berry…
For the past two years, Weaver’s Orchard has been offering authentic Italian cookies of the thin waffle-looking variety through Bellapizzelle run by Denise DiNorscia Williams. Having opened and founded the business in 2002 in the kitchen of her mother Lucy’s…
Did you know cheesecake has been a favorite food since ancient times? There is evidence it was served to athletes as an energy booster at the first Olympic games in 776 B.C. And ancient Greek couples often chose cheesecake as…
My son turned two last week, and while we did make him the obligatory cake, he was way more interested in the new toy helicopter and raspberries that topped in. In fact he ate ALL of the raspberries off the…
Some of my favorite Christmas parties have involved white elephant gift exchanges. I have usually come back with gifts I love, but perhaps this only shows my capacity to be charmed by strange, low-budget gifts. At one white elephant party…
In high school, some friends and I volunteered at the Hay Creek Valley Fall Festival at Joanna Furnace, around the corner from Weaver’s Orchard. The Hay Creek festival recreates early American arts, like blowing glass, pressing cider, and cooking over…
Not that long ago, the temperatures were in the 90s, and all I wanted to do was eat or drink things that were FREEZING COLD. However, as I now look out my window at the dreary day and torrential rainfall,…
“The days are long and the years are short as a mom,” a friend reminded me last week as we celebrated our son Rusty’s first birthday. It’s hard to believe that a year has come and gone so quickly! Among…
Christmas Eve conjures up magical memories for me. On that special night when we were children, my brothers and I were best friends. Tinsel danced in the colored lights as we poked at the packages under the tree and tried…
We should all make our own pie crusts this Thanksgiving. I say this as a person who has been known to hurl unsuccessful homemade pie dough into the trash can in frustration and run to the store for refrigerated pre-made pie dough. Learning to…