• Fruit,  Side

    Blood Orange Manhattan Marmalade

    For me, making marmalade is a form of meditation…a slow, deliberate and, at times, rhythmic affair absolutely worthy of an afternoon spent in the kitchen. Over the last few years, I’ve waffled between my favorite bourbon cocktail – the Manhattan…

  • Fruit,  Salad,  Vegetarian

    Peach Caprese Salad

    I’m lucky to live less than 2 miles from the State Farmers Market, and every time our North Carolina summers turn up the heat to stiffling, I know a cool, sweet reward will start to appear just down that road…

  • Dessert,  Fruit

    Strawberry-Rhubarb Ginger Snap & Coconut Crisp

    My grandmother lived in a small house on the first farm just outside of “downtown” Hooper, Nebraska.  By downtown, I mean there was a two-block length main street with a smattering of mom-and-pop stores, a small grocer, and two restaurants.…