Nuts

I can see I won’t get to do any baking before Christmas day, so am glad I at least managed to make a batch of spiced nuts. I have several recipes for various kinds, but find the one below the quickest and easiest to knock out when I don’t have a lot of time. I … Continue reading →

Holiday Breakfast

Whoa! Ground fog in the Christmas Tree forest!   A little dry ice (I work in a lab building at PU), some nifty folk carvings, and it’s magic for the holidays at our staff breakfast (thank you Andrew!). The breakfast tray from Olives was very nice, too, they have great baked goods!  

RSA Dinner Series at Tre Piani

Yes, they’re doing Feast of the Seven Fishes at Tre Piani on Christmas Eve, and yes, they are having a shindig on New Year’s Eve, but come spring (and maybe for a holiday gift idea?), get a load of Tre Piani’s new Restaurant Supported Agriculture dinner series during the 2011 growing season.  A series of Friday … Continue reading →

Over Easy and Thank You Wegmans

It’s so unusual I have time to make a real breakfast, that it is a photo-worthy occasion to me! A couple of maple links from the Amish Market in Kingston, good  eggs (from the Whole Earth Center?), and a slice of Wegmans delicious organic multi-grain bread with currants.  I love that bread! When Wegmans first … Continue reading →

Good stuff

I know that Lucy’s Ravioli Kitchen is full of epicurean delights this time of year (check out the Christmas Eve menu), but I write in praise of their humble rustic tomato sauce, pictured at left. I had way too much sauce for the raviolis (a double plural?) in this bowl, but that’s okay, I needed to … Continue reading →

Kudos to Chambers Walk

First of all, even though my friends and I didn’t order the specials, they gave prices when they recited them.  Bonus points!  And there weren’t too many of them. More bonus points! We were celebrating our November birthdays a month late and Christmas a little early, so were out for a good time.  Chambers Walk … Continue reading →

PAR-TAY!

So many things beckon to us during the holidays season, how will you choose? Rat’s has special holiday season happy hours – Now I ask you, where else can you find that Canadian speciality, poutine, around here?!  (And of course they’re doing New Year’s Eve.) A Feast of the Seven Fishes dinner is being served at … Continue reading →

Wings

I hadn’t thought of, much less made, buffalo wings for so long. But then I saw them on our Café menu at work. I had every intention of having them, but ended home sick that day. The thought wouldn’t leave me, however, so I bought some wings and made my own, using the recipe below.  … Continue reading →

Polenta

This is a little tribute to the annual Polenta Festa at Dorothea’s House in Princeton.  That takes place later today, but I’m going to miss it (again!).  My weekends are just so darned busy that by Sunday evening, I’m down to crunch time to get ready for the upcoming work week.  My Italian mother is surely … Continue reading →