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How to Clean & Cook Soft Shell Crabs

Appetizers, Cooking, Food, Food + Drink, Handy How To's, Main Courses, Spring, Wild FoodsJune 4, 2012566Views 0Likes 20Comments

Note: Want more tips like this one? Be sure to subscribe to my free YouTube channel. Soft shell crabs are in season! "Soft shell" is just the term used when regular crabs have recently molted their outer shell. Blue crabs for example, are most common.Ideally you buy them when they're still alive and bring them…

Homemade Grape Nuts

Cooking, Fall, Food, Food + Drink, Handy How To's, Spring, Summer, WinterMay 31, 2012121Views 0Likes 11Comments

Homemade cereal, what a revelation! This recipe for homemade grape nuts thrilled me. I’ve made homemade granola before, but never grape nuts. So I was excited to give this a try.You will need the following things: Sprouted Whole Wheat Pastry Flour (I used regular whole wheat flour and it worked well!), Light Brown Sugar, Baking…

Herbal Sugars

Blog, Cooking, Food, Food + Drink, Handy How To's, Sauces & Condiments, Spring, SummerMarch 21, 2012139Views 0Likes 2Comments

Since we're officially in Spring now, herbs are going to take over my life. I love every minute of it.They are growing like wildfire on my deck and on a stump in the front of my house. It thrills me to the core.So I'm going to do everything I can to embrace them. First up:…

Homemade Almond Milk

Cooking, Drinks, Fall, Food, Food + Drink, Handy How To's, Spring, Summer, WinterMarch 7, 201234Views 0Likes 11Comments

I made this a few months ago and failed to share it with you. How could I?From time to time I test and photograph a recipe from one of the members of Tasty Kitchen, the fabulous community recipe website of my friend Ree. Well I tested this one and it was lovely and you ought…

How to Can Tomatoes & Other Tomato Tips

Blog, Food + Drink, Handy How To's, Pioneer Skills, SummerAugust 22, 201185Views 0Likes 22Comments

Before I begin, I need to share a tip. I was reminded via twitter by my friend Paul over at Foodcrunch of this important summer tomato rule, so if you take nothing else away but this, I'll be happy. If you want your juicy summer tomatoes to last longer... simply rest them on the windowsill…

How to Clean a Crab & Other Crabby Adventures

Blog, Handy How To's, Pioneer SkillsJuly 25, 2011246Views 0Likes 21Comments

There's a man in my hometown here in the Hudson Valley who defines the word "local." He's been a local forever. He is this place. He has a commercial crab operation that he runs from the pier and he brings in all sorts of blue crabs every day. He drives his truck around and it…

How to Fix a Bee Swarm

Handy How To's, Home & Family, Pioneer SkillsMay 13, 201148Views 0Likes 7Comments

We had a bee swarm around here at Tulipwood earlier this week. It all happened very quickly -- we were planting vegetables in the garden, toiling and sweating away because somehow we decided it would be a good idea to plant 25 varieties this year.Think it was a cold long winter?We are embracing the sun…

How to Field Dress and Butcher a Turkey

Blog, Handy How To's, Hunting, Pioneer SkillsApril 19, 20115KViews 1Like 25Comments

Disclaimer: This is one of my "Not for the Faint of Heart" posts. If you fall into that category, please come back another day when I'll be talking about pudding.******************Since it is turkey season, and since I found myself with two turkeys to haul off the field not too long ago, I thought I'd show…

How to Make Hot Sauce: Habanero

Appetizers, Blog, Cooking, Fall, Food, Food + Drink, Handy How To's, Sauces & Condiments, Spring, Summer, WinterMarch 30, 201128Views 0Likes 8Comments

As you well know, I have a thing for hot sauce. At one point I thought I had tried all of the bottles in the store. Then I made this whiskey hot sauce for my book Food Heroes. I felt it was my job to preach hot sauce to the world.Then I found one more recipe to try... it was magical.

Lots 'o fresh ingredients like cilantro, cherry tomatoes, onion, garlic, and eight habaneros. Are you ready for this?Can you handle the heat?"You can't handle the heat!"Name that movie.