10 Amazing Autumn Recipes
The kitchen calls to me in autumn. It’s finally cool enough that I actually want to fire up the gas oven and let it warm the house as I cook. Also, this time of year, basil, sage, thyme and oregano…
Category Recipes
European Pear Recipes
Poire Belle Hélène [Poached Pears with Chocolate Sauce and Vanilla Ice Cream] with Nadia Hassani from Deep Focus on Vimeo. When Weaver’s Orchard invited me to do another cooking class this summer, I suggested pears. I must admit I…
Braised Cured Pork Belly & Apple Kimchi with Amani’s BYOB
Braised Pork and Apple Kimchi with Jonathan Amann from Deep Focus on Vimeo. For the past three years, Chef Jonathan Amman of Amani’s BYOB has earned the title “Best Chef in Chester County” at the Chester County Restaurant Festival. On…
Traditional Provençal Cooking with Peaches
Provençal Peaches with Rachel VanDuzer from Deep Focus on Vimeo. While rain pounded the roof of the stone barn at Weaver’s Orchard on Tuesday, August 12, Rachel VanDuzer transported the audience at the weekly Weaver’s Orchard summer cooking class to…
Playing with Blackberry Recipes: Salad, Jam & Refresher
Fresh Ideas for Fresh Blackberries from Deep Focus on Vimeo. If Phoebe Canakis writes a cookbook some day, she’ll call it “Recipes Are Made to be Broken.” She loves to try new combinations and bend the rules a little when…
Chubby Pickle Farm: Getting People Growing & Preserving the Harvest
Growing and Preserving the Harvest: Chubby Pickle Farm Pickles from Deep Focus on Vimeo. Nan Reinert of Chubby Pickle Farm has some advice about pickle making: “Start with refrigerator pickles, move on to dill…then pickle everything!” At the Weaver’s…
Canning Bruschetta & Creating Artisan Pizza
Call it serendipity–a “fortunate happenstance.” Brian and Elizabeth Licitra invite David and Rachel VanDuzer over for homemade pizza. Rachel happens to bring along some freshly made bruschetta. Brian suggests topping the pizza with bruschetta and voila! Bruschetta pizza! A match made…
In Praise of Peaches
For some reason I’ve long since forgotten, I went several years without eating peaches. Maybe I’d had some tough ones from a conventional grocery store. What I do remember is how the hiatus ended. Some friends of ours picked peaches…
Blueberries: Beyond Just Baking, with Crystal Barto of Emily’s Restaurant
Beyond Baking with Blueberries: Unique Blueberry Recipes with Crystal Barto from Deep Focus on Vimeo. Crystal Barto, head chef at Emily’s in Mohnton, is a master at creating recipes using seasonal fruits and vegetables. At her cooking class at…
Spicing Up the Dinner Table with Authentic Mexican Salsas
As much as I’ve been enjoying the amazing taste of fresh berries and tree fruit the past few weeks as I visit my family here at the orchard, I have also grown to love the vibrant flavors and spices of…