Updated with directions for making in my new KitchenAid Air Fryer Countertop Oven! I recently had the great opportunity to spend some time in California. While driving between Pebble Beach and San Francisco we passed by field after field of amazing crops. It took me a while to figure out those fields were filled with…
Mushroom, Bacon and Shallot Nachos
I was elbow deep in fungi this past weekend…the tasty mushroom kind of fungi that is, at the Kennett Square, PA Mushroom Festival! I had the honor of being a finalist at the Mushroom Appetizer Cook Off! This is a great event at a huge festival that is always held the weekend after Labor Day….
Bee 101: Honey & Peach Pie Sundae Cups
Sweet Simplicity… I have been infatuated with honey ice cream since the first time I tasted it at the Montgomery County Beekeeper Association Meeting I attended with my beekeeper sister-in-law Laura and brother Tom back in June! I asked for the recipe and was shocked to find out it was only 3 ingredients, sweet simplicity!…
Bee 101: 6 Tips for Cooking with Honey
Learning About Your Food: Hard working Hillendale honeybees! My girls and I have really enjoyed our time getting up close and personal with the Hillendale honeybees. Early in June we got to meet the bees and in July we got to help with honey extraction! I have certainly loved experimenting with the sticky stuff in the…
Bee 101: Getting Sticky & Honey Kissed Tartlets
Honey Extraction Day at Hillendale Apiary! It had been about a month since our last visit to Hillendale Apiary and we couldn’t wait to go back, visit the bees (and puppies) and help with honey extraction! The forager bees had been busy collecting nectar and passing it on to the young worker bees who process…
Recipe Roots™ – Grandma Appolonia’s Travel Cookies
These are my favorite sugar cookies! They are buttery, soft and have great vanilla flavor. Grandma Appolonia always added a little white icing to the top of them. I find it really keeps the cookies moist!
Bee 101: Meeting the Bees & A Honey of a Cocktail
All that stood between me and about 500,000 bees were my thin cotton t-shirt, my sweat pants, some gardening gloves and a bee keeper veil. I was acutely aware that there was a hole in the glove, gaps between the ends of my sleeves and the tops of the gloves and my light gray…
Lemon Brownies w/ Macadamia Nuts & White Chocolate Chips
Moist lemony “brownies” studded with white chocolate chips and salted macadamia nuts. They’re topped with a lemon glaze and more macadamia nuts! Yum!!
Bar Cookies for a Crowd – Recipe Tip
A Cookie Revelation! Hopefully, you figured this out long before I did! I love using the good old Nestle Toll House Recipe for my bar cookies. But for some reason I never noticed the recipe is written to be used with a “jelly roll pan” (15 x 10-inch.) Hmm…no wonder I always had trouble spreading the batter…
Smoky Sweet Chicken Skewers w/ Greek Yogurt Garlic Sauce
Spring, sprang, sprung! My calendar just exploded! I know it happens every spring and I shouldn’t be surprised, but somehow I am caught off guard – again! Recitals, championships, end-of-year parties, graduations, field day, teacher gifts, coach gifts, swim practice – yikes! When your calendar is approaching overload, just how many calendar screw-ups are acceptable?…