Category Archives: eating well Saffron is one of my favorite spices, it is also the most expensive spice in the world, so I use it sparingly. You can find recipes using it from across the globe, and amazingly enough despite their reputation for being plain and thrifty, the Pennsylvania Dutch love saffron and use it in both sweet and […]  “Would you like a homemade waffle? ” This is what I was asked every other morning at the Inn where I spent the last week of my vacation. Hmmm, homemade? Well within seconds—and I mean seconds, a steaming, perfect waffle would appear! Maybe they meant ‘freshly made?’ It turned out that they were […]  Fall is in the air. When I wake up in the morning it’s still dark, and the air is getting cooler. There have been days when I turn off my central air, and open my windows and enjoy the cool breeze through my house. I know that many people say they like fall best, but […]  I don’t know what I was thinking, I probably wasn’t thinking at all, but on Sunday I decided to make my debut in canning by making pickled beets and lemon curd in one afternoon! I owe this inspiration to my recent meeting with Marisa McClellan author of the blog and cookbook Food in Jars . I saw […]  Last week I decided to splurge and went to my favorite local bakery Artisan Boulanger Patisserie, in the East Passyunk neighborhood of Philadelphia, and found a Philadelphia Cronut! Having had the original I would say that this was quite different. Artisan Boulanger calls their product a croissant beignet. The structure was made up of layers […] |
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