There is nothing quite like a homemade strawberry jam that highlights the sweet cloying taste of freshly picked, sun-ripen strawberries in every bite. Freshly picked, sun-ripen strawberries that can’t be found in half-frozen Vermont during the month of April. Therein lies my dilemma. The berries available to me, at this time of year, are fresh…
Category: Savory
Sesame Bagels
I decided to make bagels this week, and settled on baking a classic sesame bagel. Sesame bagels are an all time favorite of mine. Sesame seeds, such simple little thing, somehow gives plain bagels that extra little push into crunchy, toasted goodness. I can’t even begin to describe how something so tiny can impart such…
Fresh Thyme Egg Salad
Egg salad – where all good Easter eggs come to their deliciously grizzly end. Ingredients: 6 Hardboiled Eggs 2 tbsp Mayonnaise 1 tbsp fresh Thyme squeeze of Lemon Juice dash of Salt Fresh thyme adds a delicate complexity to this familiar dish. Directions: Peel and dice up your eggs. Place your eggs in a bowl,…
Gnocchi with Pesto
It has come to my attention that although, I have two gnocchi recipes posted, neither of them are for a standard, no frills gnocchi. I have decided to remedy that this week with a step by step guide to basic gnocchi making, along with an attempt to photograph the proceeder. Somehow flour coated hands and…
The Ephemeral Bee 