Crème Brûlée

Crème brûlée, a rich, indulgent dessert classic, is surprisingly easy to make – four simple ingredients, a little technical skill (easily established with a few rounds of practice), and voilà! You’ve got a luxurious dessert that never disappoints. Ingredients: 1 cup Heavy Cream 2 Egg Yokes 1/4 cup Sugar Vanilla Bean (optional, for flavor, you…

Pasta Primavera

Primavera means Spring, and although we’ve technically just turned the corner on Spring, in Vermont, the classical “Spring” veggies are just starting to arrive – so bring on the pasta primavera! Personally, I feel like pasta primavera is the perfect solution for cleaning out the last dribs and drabs from your vegetable draw. Everything goes….

Homemade Butter

One of my projects lately has been learning how to make homemade butter.  You may be thinking why bother when commercial butter is so readily available?  What it has come down to for me, what really makes it worth it, has been the underlying sweet cream flavor that is often lost in large commercial batches…

Butternut Pasta in a Mustard Cream Sauce

Butternut squash pasta with Italian sausage in a sage infused mustard cream sauce.  It’s all those things that you love about fall wrapped into a single dish – hearty, spicy, warm, and cozy… but don’t get too excited.  It’s been drummed into me from a young age that eating anything with heavy cream in it…