Today was the first day that really felt like summer to me. It was gloriously hot and humid (yes, I admit to enjoying this kind of heat–especially early in the season), and we had a lovely, cooling thunderstorm in the afternoon. It brought just enough rain to make the gardens happy, and to leave us, […]
All articles in category: "Cooking,In the Kitchen with Kids,Kitchen Tools & Equipment,Recipes & Methods"
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Summertime Vanilla Ice Cream
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Naturally-Dyed Easter Eggs
My mom told me the other day that my grandmother Rauha used to dye her own wool, out of natural materials. She was a big rug-hooker, and was always scrounging around in her pantry and back yard for materials to work with. Apparently onion skins were a favorite of hers. My mom remembers her mother […]
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Cinnamon-Raisin Scones
Today I’m making food for some friends of ours who just had a second baby. I’m planning on doing a vegetable curry dish of some sort–enough for two meals–one to eat now and one to freeze. But for some reason, I can’t stop thinking about scones–cinnamon-raisin, in particular. While they don’t exactly go with vegetable […]
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Christmas Cookies!
Per usual, Ben was in the kitchen last weekend–this time making Christmas cookies with the boys. It’s getting to be the season now, and Connor and Ian had really been looking forward to some weekend Daddy time, so this fit the bill perfectly. They all had fun with the making, we got to pull out […]
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Weekend Sushi
Ben almost always cooks on the weekends–usually making our family dinners for both Saturday and Sunday nights. Not that we ever planned it this way specifically. Rather, I think this evolved out of Ben trying to give me a break from making meals every night, along with the fact that he’s just always loved to […]
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Apples, Anyone?
A week or so ago, Connor, Ian and I made what is becoming our annual trip to Ricker Hill Orchards in Turner for bulk apples. It’s just over an hour drive for us, so it’s not exactly close, but we always make a day of it, heading over to visit nearby Nezinscot farm after getting […]
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Apple-Maple Butter
I’ve been working on more can-able recipes using maple, and since we’re in the midst of fall, and it’s apple season, a recipe with apples seems in order. In this recipe, instead of using maple syrup, I use pure maple sugar. Here it is–enjoy! Apple-Maple Butter Makes approximately 12 half-pints To do ahead of time: […]
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Peeling Apples
There’s no getting around it: Peeling and coring apples takes LOTS of time. Especially when you have to continually pause during the process to take care of any number of child-related needs: change diaper, get bandaid, help find lost Lego, prevent younger brother from hitting older brother with drumstick, get out paper and glue and […]
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Freezing Green Beans
Yes indeed, we are still putting up a lot of green beans around here. The other day I got a few more pounds in the freezer, with much help from Connor and Ian. I handled the actual blanching of course, but but the boys did an awesome job swishing the beans around in the ice […]
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Rauha’s Pulla
I have a handful of vivid memories of my maternal Finnish-American grandmother, Rauha, from when I was growing up….knitting, collecting cloth scraps to make her beautiful braided rugs, playing cards at the kitchen table with her glass of beer, and especially making Pulla. For those unfamiliar with it, Pulla is a soft, sweet, Finnish coffee bread. It’s […]
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