Blog de Puree

We picked up our first share of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) produce from Arrowhead Family Farm in Newburyport, Mass today and consequently cooked our first, delicious meal from locally grown food.

A bird’s eye view of the Arrowhead Family Farm along the
Merrimack River in Newburyport, Mass.
Take that big chain markets and national (and international) food distribution [...]

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A birding blog I follow called 10,000 Birds had a great blog post recently about making peanut butter suet.
In the post, the author’s parents know what Randye and I also discovered not too long ago—peanut butter suet is world’s better than that fatty, industrial made stuff you can get at the supermarket. During our last [...]

Rather than going to a market, health food store or local coffee shops for fruit smoothies that cost upwards of $4 to $5 dollars, we’ve started making them at home.
Even better, for the price of a smoothie out in the world, we can buy enough ingredients to make at least eight to ten smoothies at [...]

As usual, Randye dazzled our friends with her hostessing with the mostessing. From 11 to 3, we had friends from various parts of our lives all mingling pleasantly.
The highlight of the day was the food, of course. We served two baked omelets, upside down apple banana French toast, baked ziti, salad, our friend Melissa’s [...]

Brownies. They may be the world’s perfect food. Well, maybe not. But I love, love, love them. (Oh, but don’t dare taint them with nuts of any kind. Just pure, pure chocolate-y goodnes.) And while any morsel is good, the edges, with their chewy, dense lusciousness are the holy grail of bakery heaven.
So imagine [...]

Randye and I cooked potato latkes from scratch tonight in preparation for Hanukkah, which starts this Friday evening. It was also the first opportunity we had to cook together in the layout of the new kitchen–one of the major factors in the design we chose. As we had hoped, things went quite smoothly. We weren’t [...]

I inherited my Nana’s The New American Cook Book (circa 1941). The hard cover and spine had ripped off with age and use. I wanted to preserve it because of its obvious sentimental value, but it’s also a damn handy cookbook. (If I want a good basic recipe, such as a fruit compote, this book [...]