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Want to impress your family and guests? This is an easy side dish that anyone can make for a special dinner. You just need 4 ingredients and a frying pan. The apples and onions are really good together.
Fried Apples and OnionsYou will need…
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Because I haven't been a huge pumpkin pie fan until extremely recently, I've tried to take advantage of Fall's other stellar produce to end the season's celebrations on a sweet note. Like everyone says, there's nothing more American than apple pie. To that I'd like to add: there's nothing that exemplifies Autumn more than the smell of a baked-from-scratch apple pie. This one is perhaps the best I've ever tasted! It's piled high to the sky with fresh apple filling, and the crust calls for shortening instead of butter, which makes it exceptionally flaky. To make this for Thanksgiving, Christmas, or just because, keep reading.
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Timing is everything.
On Friday morning, I had two apples for breakfast that I had just bought from Jim Kent. One was a Winter Banana, which I had tasted…
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I love blue cheese, but occasionally find that it can overpower a dish with its pungent flavor. But after appreciating its modest contribution to last week's buffalo chicken macaroni and cheese, I was ready to give it a starring role. Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (5) | Blog
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For a third (and last) day this week, I want to again stress the importance of understanding that growing apples isn’t as sterile as supermarkets’ apple displays make it appear.
Visit Jim Kent’s fruit stand at various farmers’ market locations in Manhattan and you’ll see 70 apple…
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One fruit that couldn’t handle this year's rainfall was the cherry, and Jim Kent’s crop was almost completely wiped out because of heavy rains that occurred only three to four days before Locust Grove Fruit Farm was to start the cherry harvest.
“We had a beautiful crop of…
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With apple prices so
reasonable in autumn (I purchased some for 50 cents a pound last
week) it's a great time to bake with apples. They keep
the muffin moist, and add a delicious flavor and texture.
Packed with lots of vitamin A and dietary fiber, apples make a
healthy addition to… Read More »
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With all the perfect-looking fruits and vegetables at the supermarket, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that many variables exist in every step of the growing process.
Here in the Northeast United States, we had an extraordinarily wet spring, followed by less-than-ideal weather…
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Now that it's really starting to feel like fall, I've been craving everything apple. Apple pie, apple cider, applesauce, plain apples - it all sounds perfect to me. I bought too…
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