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We Gather Together
Fall is in the air, and it’s Pie in the Sky season! Community Servings prepares and delivers delicious, medically-tailored meals to 1,600 homebound individuals and families in 20 Massachusetts...
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Stations of the Crust
A walk through the making of a pie. Pastry Station The beginning and the end of pie…the crust, the dough, the very pie-ness of pie. Contrary to all sorts of nonsense, pie dough is easy. Easy as Pie....
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Crantart
Fen grapes, marish worts, mosse-berries, moore-berries, fenberries, bearberries, croneberry, cramberries…..how many nick names can one little bouncing berry have? Whatever else they’ve been called,...
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National Indian Pudding Day!
If there’s a mug, it MUST be a real holiday! The ‘Indian’ in Indian Pudding is cornmeal – or Indian Meal The not-so pretty color of Indian Pudding is the molasses that sweetens it Many recipes call...
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We Gather Together
To make Pies ! Pie Making Marathon III Kingston Senior Center 33 Summer Street Kingston, MA 02364 Thursday, November 17, 2016 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm The pies will be donated, frozen and unbaked, to...
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Turkey talk
Turkey lectern at Boynton, St. Andrew’s Church, Yorkshire. William Strickland is said to have brought the first turkeys into England, and donated this lectern to his church. William Strickland’s Coat...
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A Thanksgiving
A Thanksgiving to God, for his House By Robert Herrick Lord, Thou hast given me a cell Wherein to dwell, A little house, whose humble roof Is weather-proof: Under the spars of which...
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Comfort Food
What makes comfort food COMFORTING is that it’s big, and fast and easy and pulls no punches. And possibly takes you back to childhood, even one that wasn’t quite yours….so when someone from Minnesota...
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Rabbit, Xmas rabbit
Titian.Mary and Infant Jesus with a rabbit, Paris, Louvre Ferdinand du Puigaudeau, Chinese Shadows, the Rabbit
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Jag
Rare Iron Pie Crimper/jag with Whale-Tail Handle and 1794 Large Cent Wheel, American, first half 19th century, with notched border and distinctive semi-circular tail reminiscent of a whale’s tail, the...
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Soup kitchen
detail from Johann Georg Sturm’s 1796 Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen Soooooo…. When you realize that you have six pounds of parsnips, and the odd roast turkey carcass and the freezer needs...
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It’s Christmas Time in the Kitchen
Christmas time in the kitchen is all about the cookies The words of Silver Bells just beg to be re-written for our own versions of the holiday. Silver Bells cut out cookies from Pillsbury Even Vogue...
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Cookies, eaten like grapes
header –Snail, Fruit, Nuts, Grapes, and Pinecones by Giovan Battista Ruoppolo, 2nd half 17th century. I was thinking about shortbread, a cookie I used to make, and then having made it for two years,...
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Winter Solstice
header: Adam Elsheimer, The Flight into Egypt c. 1609 When I started this blog – three years ago today – I hadn’t even registered that it was the day after the Winter Solstice – the day the light...
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Christmas Magic!
Time to wrap the pressies… but first – where’s the TAPE????? Wrapping paper, tags., working pen to write the names on the tags….. Add TAPE to the list Time to run the errands I could get the cheap and...
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PORKY TOAST
I had a chance to go to Dorchester. Work related. For this, the most ancestral of homes, the place the Patriarch was raised and identified as being from. Not matter how many years we lived in Pembroke,...
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New Year!
David de Conick – detail : rabbits and roosters Buon Capodanno! 17th century Italian platter
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Red Light Green Light
There are TWELVE days of Christmas – all of you ever so eager to put those lights UP in November, don’t be in such a hurry to take them down – keep ‘em around at least until the 6th of January, the...
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Throwback Thursdays
This might very well be the Introduction, or perhaps the Preface to “Do You REALLY Live Here? My Life as a Pilgrim”. Foodways Pilgrim I’ve been studying Thanksgiving professionally since 1980....
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