tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64380820469275832912009-07-02T16:54:02.620-04:00JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05497918905030890833noreply@blogger.comBlogger151125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6438082046927583291.post-64556976390363216312009-06-28T22:52:00.019-04:002009-06-29T01:11:14.133-04:00

How did I miss posting about Roots Market over in Lancaster last year?And why don't they just spell it Rutt's like it's pronounced?This must be last year around July 4Th.Once I saw this photo and this traffic shot, it all came back to me. I swore I would never go back near a holiday again....Guess who has a day open this Tuesday...before July 4Th weekend??? They are only open on Tuesdays. Dang,

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Lights! Camera! Action!Well...if only it were that easy.The top photo shows a new appliance in a photo studio being shot for updating product catalogs.This kind of cooking is a whole new way of looking at food photography. My job is only in Food. No photography-that is for the professionals!Everything has to be pretty, but not overshadow the brand new appliance for the consumer.The best way for

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Over in Lancaster (more like East Petersburg, rt 72) is an amazing shop! Clyde Weavers. The website shows the markets they also belong to.I don't have any inside photos of the shop because the day I pulled up was 4:59 pm and they close at 5:00 pm. So I did not have time to wander around drooling and doing any photos. But trust me, if you are a cheese lover (or lunch meats lover) this is a

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Baked Ziti1 pd cottage cheese2 eggs1 1/2 cups grated Parmesan2 cups cubed Mozzarella (if it is shredded it will melt away, you want nice globs of cheese)1/2 pound cooked round, tube pasta3-4 cups of your favorite cooked tomato sauceIn a bowl, mix eggs, cottage cheese, Parmesan. Toss the pasta with the cheese mixture. Then add 1-2 cups of the tomato sauce. Then add the cubed mozzarella cheese and

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Let's talk cheese !!Out of curiosity, I took all the cheese out of the fridge to count. OMG. This is as large as my vinegar/oil collection!! 5 lb loaf aged Mozzarellafresh MozzarellaJarlsbergCheddarshredded mix of Asiago, Parmesan, Provolone, Pecorinoshredded bag of Mozzerella mix (OK I was lazy and bought this for kids to make pizza)Goudahunks of Parmesanhunks of Pecorinosmall hunk of Briepiece

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It seems odd to me that Easter was so early we didn't have local asparagus with dinner. I'm glad to see it in the markets now. That is the first sign (for me) that local produce is just awakening out of a winter slumber.Somewhere recently I saw an interesting salad of very thin sliced raw asparagus with a vinaigrette. Hopefully it will turn up again so I can play around with that idea. I

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Is anyone else kinda tired of rain? My flowers like it and I'm happy for them, but some sun was nice this past weekend.Somehow 7 pounds of wings wound up in my basket while out shopping!I'm still trying to get my darn deep freezer emptied out from last years bounty and really should not be buying stuff I do not need. Usually I cut the tips off and the wings in half for little drumlets and wing

JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05497918905030890833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6438082046927583291.post-58514642736310304562009-04-13T07:33:00.006-04:002009-04-13T22:59:04.722-04:00

Buckle2 C all purpose flour1 tsp baking powder3/4 tsp table salt4 Tb soft unsalted butter1/2-3/4 C white sugar1 large egg1-2 tsp vanilla extract1/2 C whole milk (warmed)3-4 cups room temp fruit (if juicy, keep juice separate for later)Topping:4 Tb soft unsalted butter1/2 tsp table salt1/2 cup white sugar1/3 cup all purpose flourMix topping ingredients until crumbly in a small bowl and set aside

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Here is something to put some icing decorating skills to good practice. This can be just as complicated or simple as you want it to be.I did this with some very young kids again. The trick was to get things that take drying time or the more tedious tasks done ahead of time without the kids. Then little hands can magically put everything together.Older kids can handle this from begining to

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I thought I'd never find a way to coat nuts that wouldn't end up like a sticky mess after a few days of storage.I've tried and never really found a way to keep that crunchiness unless I toasted them just before eating, which is fine for a quick salad or topping, but I wanted a way to have some in a jar for snacking that would stay firm and crunchy.It's also the reason I don't add dried fruit to

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How on earth does one make Beagle Stew?It's something I've fantasized about many times. Too many.It starts by adopting a beagle who is about 2-3 years old with no history. Bring him into your home and let things simmer. This beagle had a nose that overtook his brain on a few occasions.There is no order to ingredients for this recipe.A good place to start....Find beagle in beds with his head on

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OK, I'll admit. I've not ever made tapioca....ummm I think. Rice Pudding-yes, but no Tapioca from my memory.What exactly is the point? These little starch balls floating in a thickish sweetened glop.Up in Harrisburg on Paxton Street is a whole neighborhood of Vietnamese people and Asian groceries. Wow...they have some good stuff.In fact I ran into a chef shopping at one of the Asian Markets when

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Wow. Isn't rice pretty?I shot that with my new lens extender. It's pretty neat. I can see things through my camera that can't be seen with my eyes! Those darn photography bloggers and their cool ideas!Just for fun, I got out all the rice I have in my cupboard. 2 kinds of brown, sticky sushi, medium grain and risotto.Before I go any further...I've never made sushi before and living in Central

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Here is another good eats that escaped me until last year! How do these things happen?!?I've started spotting pieces of this breakfast cake around in places like bakeries or coffee shops. Most of the time it is served in a small square, warmed up, then put into a dish with warm milk poured over. Kind of like the way a lot of people eat strawberry shortcake. As a soupy bowl of milky goodness.This

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Here we are! Nice chilly January!We are trying to eat out of the freezer along with our summer canned fruits and vegetables.About the only things purchased at the store are carrots, celery, citrus fruits, and lettuce. Most of the local farm markets still have winter squashes, potatoes, turnips, and some winter veggies that hold a long time in cool storage.God I love eating a bowl of hot roasted

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Hard to believe, but we cut back this year on cookie making! This time we only went through about 12 pounds of butter, we did use a 25 pound bag of flour in a few weeks, but that included gingerbread houses and bread in the bread machine about every 2-3 days.In the top photo we have 3 kinds of biscotti-a double chocolate with pine nutsclassic almondhoney biscotti (which had no flour and used

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I love having waffles in the freezer to toast up quickly and easily for breakfast. I also prefer my waffle with peanut butter-weird I know.Since I made the cornbread waffles a while back, I wanted to try making a gingerbread one for the holidays. Looking back on my notes, a basic recipe of cornbread went straight into the waffle iron.I quickly found out after baking the first batch, the basic

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I sure hope I didn't put this beautiful ad in any previous posts! My mind is slipping me thinks with 2 teenagers and a chatti cathi 8 yr old.That is an original food advertisement straight out of the pages of Cosmo Magazine!! Maybe they should go back to those wistful days of voluptuous women who knew how to eat real food!!!I am still in a cooking slump from the loss of summer eating habits.Now

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Just a little something me and the family whipped out this weekend!I've been making gingerbread houses for many years now and the biggest trick I've learned over the years is ICING will fix anything!There are so many ideas on the Internet and if I ever see something cool I just clip it or print it and throw into my gingerbread file.Usually I bake 3 basic smallish houses-one for each of my kids.

JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05497918905030890833noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6438082046927583291.post-6234995906307845262008-11-23T21:57:00.004-05:002008-11-23T22:59:59.366-05:00

Weikerts Egg Farm , located 4 miles west of Gettysburg, PA, right on Rt 116. Super nice farm to stop and drink in Adams County scenery. I think it may be self serve most of the time. At least when we were there on a Saturday, it was.'Super bigs' are just that. They don't even fit in the carton!Plenty of different eggs to choose from.Of course the farm is beautiful to gaze at, right in the heart

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This summer we finally rode some of the Rail Trail bike path.I won't give you guys all the boring details of the one day when the 2 knuckleheads in the photo (they look so innocent!) got ahead of me by nine miles and I was mad as a half dead hornet knowing when I finally caught up to them I'd have to ride nine miles back!!Anyhoo....New Freedom is a gorgeous spot to stop, start, or pass through

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Another year has passed! I've written before about how we support the 4-H kids at the annual Beef sale. Each time we go we learn a bit more. Especially since I did not grow up on a farm or knew anyone with a farm.As my little family grows up in Adams County, PA there are constant visual reminders of farms and land disappearing underneath unnecessary housing developments and shopping centers and

JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05497918905030890833noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6438082046927583291.post-75648922705903399052008-10-12T21:50:00.013-04:002008-10-12T23:07:51.988-04:00

Here it is mid October. Normally in Central PA we are beginning to feel a very definite chill in the air.Suddenly the past few days we are having a glorious Indian Summer. Temps here jumped to low/mid 70's.I could write about apples. Last year I covered the Apple Harvest Festival in 2 posts. A very nice surprise came at the Gettysburg Market last week when I found locally grown hardy Kiwi. It is

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Holy cow I have done more canning this year than I can remember. In fact so much that I had to run out and buy jars more than once!! That is such a pain.Please, someone tell me what is wrong with my brain to go through the horrific torture of standing for hours to wash, skin, seed, squeeze those darn tomatoes into a jar only to boil the darn water, boil the heck out of the filled jars. Ugggggh.

JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05497918905030890833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6438082046927583291.post-82954433456142770242008-09-28T19:54:00.021-04:002008-09-28T23:45:22.167-04:00

Late summer is still holding on here in Central PA. Peppers are dripping off their plants and the nights are getting colder. I think the lowest temp recently was mid 40's F. I could be wrong on that.We did get lucky and got to raid a relatives garden for peppers and tomatoes! The 3 bags above are what 24 pounds of hot peppers looks like! It really doesn't look like much until you dump them out of

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