I spent yesterday making wine and smoking Javelina. For those of you who don't know what a Javelina is, it's not a pipe. It's an animal that looks like a desert rat... somewhere between a wild boar and a rat. Really. It's true.
So I thought I'd show you how it all came to be.
You see,…
There's an old gnarled apple tree hovering over the well at Tulipwood. My great-grandfather built the well and he probably planted the apple tree too.
It is a very moody apple tree. Some years it is full of low and high hanging fruit and my brother and I shake it and throw sticks at the branches…
When I was a line cook at a restaurant in the Hudson Valley long ago, I used to pick daylilies right before dinner service.
It was my favorite thing to do.
Not because I'm a girl and I like picking flowers...but because it was an escape from the brutal kitchen. An excuse to leave and experience a…
I planted Grandma P.'s herb garden and got to thinking about basil. A few years ago, when I was feeling especially experimental with food, I made lemon basil ice cream and everyone who set their lips to it said it was the best ice cream they'd ever tasted.
There's something so intoxicating about basil. And while…
I'm in New York this week to visit Grandma P. who is in the hospital, as you've probably gathered by now.
In the past 48 hours, I've spent a good amount of time cleaning out her house, in addition to making her tofu pudding because she won't eat the hospital food. I've also had a few adventures, and…
Two days ago, I called my grandmother to ask her about her meatloaf. She has this way of making it that I've never been able to duplicate.
But she didn't answer. She usually answers, or if she can't get to the phone fast enough, she always calls back.
But she didn't call back this time. Maybe she…
You asked, she answered! Here is this week's Q&A with Grandma Pellegrini.
Take it away grandma!
Q. How do you keep the critters from eating up your garden? I plant fruit trees and have raised vegetable gardens, and so far only the groundhogs, squirrels, chipmunks and birds have enjoyed my homegrown produce. The area is fenced in, the raised vegetable…
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Apples, Broccoli, Cabbage, Cantaloupes, Carrots, Cauliflower, Celery, Corn, Cucumbers, Eggplant, Grapes, Lettuce, Onions, Potatoes, Tomatoes, Pumpkins, Raspberries, Tomatoes, Watermelon
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Apples, Beets, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Cucumbers, Eggplant, Fennel, Grapes, Grapefruit, Lettuce, Mushrooms, Okra, Onions, Pears, Pecans, Pistachios, Potatoes, Pumpkins, Radishes, Squash, Sweet Potatoes, Tomatoes, Turnips, Watermelon
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Apples, Asian Pears, Beets, Blackberries, Blueberries, Broccoli, Brussels Sprouts, Cabbage, Carrots, Cauliflower,…
My Bio
My passion for good food, for simple food, began at an early age, on a boulder by the side of a creek as I caught my trout for breakfast. I grew up on the same land my great-grandfather owned and worked. This place is called Tulipwood, and there my great-aunt could name every…