Hot Buttered Rum
Hot Buttered Rum Mrs. Marie Giambrone Skip the Chatter — Take Me to the Recipe The juxtaposition of opposites is a marvel. Chilly air, warm fire. Frozen landscape, melting whipped cream. Cold wintry doldrums, hot buttered rum. If you have only tasted hot buttered rum in your imagination, while reading old books or watching Bing […]
Early Winter Sweet Potato Apple Soup
Early Winter Sweet Potato Apple Soup Mrs. Kerri Christopher Skip the Chatter — Take Me to the Recipe While consumerville rushes us on to Christmas, the natural world takes a more gradual approach. Most of us completed our apple-picking trips weeks ago and, with any luck, found some fun ways to use our apples, but just […]
Banana Bread with Cinnamon Sugar Crust
Banana Bread with Cinnamon Sugar Crust Mrs. Beatrice Scudeler Skip the Chatter — Take Me to the Recipe I have always loved banana bread. It’s quick, it uses up all the bananas you forgot to eat during the week (the riper the better!), and, to me at least, it’s one of the most comforting bakes […]
Best Ever Sourdough Picnic Bread
Best Ever Sourdough Picnic Bread Skip the Chatter — Take Me to the Recipe This is it. Here you go. This is the best, most wonderful, most amazing sourdough bread ever to grace blanket or picnic table. (Mentally insert your own additional superlatives if the above do not suffice.) This is, simply put, the bread […]
Garden Pico de Gallo
Garden Pico de Gallo Mrs. Libby O’Neill Skip the Chatter — Take Me to the Recipe If, like my neighbor, you were diligent about starting your tomatoes at a reasonable time of year and have tended them well, you may find yourself collecting the first fruits of your harvest before summer is even in full […]
Double Chocolate Ramblers
Double Chocolate Ramblers Mrs. Marie Giambrone Skip the Chatter — Take Me to the Recipe My grandmother almost always had a batch or two of these cookies stashed away in her spare freezer. I remember the frosty fog hitting my face as I opened the door, taking one or two from the container. Departing. Devouring. […]
Strawberry Rhubarb Jam Worth Waiting For
Strawberry Rhubarb Jam Worth Waiting For Skip the Chatter — Take Me to the Recipe In the course of refining this recipe, we lost quite a few strawberries. The Hearth & Field test kitchens are prone to be frequented by visitors of diminutive size, who try to help out by “testing” the product at all […]
Exceptionally Plain Everyday Vanilla Scones
Exceptionally Plain Everyday Vanilla Scones Skip the Chatter — Take Me to the Recipe Do not be deceived by the name. Or better yet, do. Yes, go ahead and be deceived into thinking that this recipe is only good enough for exceptionally plain days — days on which nothing exceptional is expected. Make it on […]
Coconut Orange Rolls
Coconut Orange Rolls Skip the Chatter — Take Me to the Recipe This is an old family recipe, which we have modified a touch over the years. It takes a bit of time to make, and it’s worth every minute. It is traditionally prepared on Holy Saturday (the day before Easter), using the final fruits of the […]
Scotch Eggs
Scotch Eggs Dr. Jeff Gardner Skip the Chatter — Take Me to the Recipe A scotch egg — a hard-boiled egg wrapped in sausage, breaded, and fried — is delicious and portable, with a rich history rooted deep in our collective, out-of-doors past. Not long ago, people in the West did not speak of the […]