Archive for June, 2012
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Classic Pie Dough
Recipe: Classic Pie Dough
Ingredients
- 2½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup (2 sticks) very cold unsalted butter, cut into ½-inch cubes
- 4 to 7 tablespoons ice cold water
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Summer Pickings
There’s nothing I look forward to in the summer more than berry picking. It’s practically a summer ritual now; year after year, I slather on sunscreen, put on a wide-brimmed hat, load up the car, and go off on a day trip to a local berry farm. Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries — if there are ripe berries for the picking, I am so there. It’s such a satisfying feeling going home with baskets full of hand-picked berries, and the best part is that picking them is only half the fun! Once I get home, all I can think about is what delicious creations I should make out of my haul. Berries go great in jams, jellies, preserves, pies, cakes, pastries… the list goes on and on!
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A Taste of Eating Locally
If you’re shopping at any main grocery store chain, it’s easy to get “fresh” produce (once dictated by the seasons) literally at any time during the year. Blueberries in December? Easy. Corn in April? No problem. -
Life’s A Peach
Happy National Peaches and Cream Day!
Eating a fresh peach always reminds me of summertime. Maybe it’s the way the sticky sweet juice always seems to drip down onto my arms and clothes, or maybe it’s just the peach flavor and its subtle taste of sunshine and farmers’ markets. Either way, I love them.
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Pie Party 2012
Today, all across the internet, people are celebrating pie. In fact, it’s a Pie Party.
Shauna Ahern of Gluten-Free Girl and the Chef, whose idea for a global pie day originated just one year ago, says it quite brilliantly: “You don’t have to eat pie every day. I suppose you probably shouldn’t. But if we all took the time to make a pie, every day, and walk over to our neighbors’ house with a warm pie just out of the oven? Can you imagine how much better we’d all know each other? How happy we could make each other?”
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Learning to Love Beer
I love drinking beer, but that wasn’t always the case. I’m not quite sure exactly when I started enjoying the taste of it, definitely not during my undergraduate years, that’s for sure. Boy, am I glad that part of my life is over. Cheap, tasteless beer at college parties was pretty much my entire repertoire with beer for those few years, and to this day, the thought of drinking a lukewarm PBR makes me want to cringe. Safe to say, I was totally missing out on the good stuff because once I had it, there was no going back.
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Lights, Camera, Desserts!
We are so excited to present the book trailer for Shaina Olmanson‘s Desserts in Jars, done beautifully by Ingman Photography.
The first dessert you see in the video is Shaina’s Peach-Raspberry Verrines with Lemon-Thyme Cream. Such an easy and refreshing summer treat, we thought we’d give you a sneak peak at the recipe!
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Smoked Stuffed Chile Poppers
Recipe: Smoked Stuffed Chile Poppers
Ingredients
- 8 ounces cream cheese or Neufchâtel cheese, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
- 12 large jalapeño chiles (green, red, or both), cored and seeded
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Marble Sheep
Recipe: Marble Sheep
Ingredients
- 1 pint vanilla ice cream
- 12 ounces Founders Breakfast Stout or other oatmeal stout
- Chocolate syrup (as much as desired!)
Instructions
- Fill a tall parfait glass three-quarters full with the ice cream. Add about 6 ounces of stout. Drizzle with chocolate syrup and serve with a long spoon. I (Howard) like to discreetly take mine into another room and finish it before anyone asks me to share.
