We went apple picking over the weekend at Alstede Farms and have a TON of apples. They have an amazing farm where you can pick-your-own apples, pumpkins, sunflowers, veggies, do a hay ride, ride a pony…. it’s a huge place but super well run. So, we love to go there every Fall. While we picked […]
We went apple picking this weekend at a farm about an hour west of here, called Alstede Farms. We go every year and love it – they have hay rides, animals, pumpkin (and other veggie) pick-your-own and of course and abundance of apples. We love Honeycrisp and Gala, so that’s what we picked for our apple […]
My family came over for Sunday brunch today. Trevor and I decided to put together a fun bagel appetizing board to enjoy with our big fluffy bagels. Wait, what is appetizing you might be asking? It’s basically all the delicious foods you put on top of bagels (cream cheese, white fish salad, pickled herring, etc…). […]
Matzo has a very distinct smell. For me, I never realized how nostalgic it was until I started making it on my own. I can vividly remember eating matzo ball soup at every holiday with my family in my parents dining room. Some years it was in my cousin Caroline and Sumner’s house or in […]
Every year during Hanukkah growing up, my parents would get a nice brisket for the entire family that we’d all enjoy on Hanukkah. My mom used beer to tenderize and marinate it in all sorts of things (from broth to beer) and over the years, more and more vegetables were added to the mix. I […]
It’s Thanksgiving!! And, the main event in our house is the turkey. There are many ways to make a turkey, but this is a basic, no fuss way that is hard to mess up. Stuff it, butter it and roast it. The fruits/veg/herbs on the inside keep in moist and flavor it, the butter keeps […]
My family has always made a slightly unconventional cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving. It’s a mix of strawberries, cherries and cranberries. It’s scrumptious. But in an effort to revamp our Thanksgiving this year, I wanted to combine an unexpected group fruits together – black & red grapes, sweet apple and tart cranberries. Roasting the grapes elevated […]
My husband, Trevor, LOVESSSSSS honey mustard. It’s a weird obsession that we non-honey-mustard-loving-people don’t understand. Never-the-less, I made some homemade honey mustard to cook this chicken and apple recipe in and it’s tasty! The honey really makes the mustard less sharp which we both loved. So maybe all I needed to be converted was a […]
Apple season is here! And everyone always wants to create sweet dishes with all the apples – apple cake, apple muffins, even apple sauce. But, you can make savory dishes as well! This salmon dish uses fresh apple cider that you can get at any supermarket or apple orchard after you finish apple picking. It […]
My all-time favorite breakfast is challah french toast. My mom made it for me as a kid and I can’t eat it any other way! The egginess of the challah bread coupled with the soaking of the bread in the egg mixture (rather than just dunking it) is what makes it extra decadent. I know […]