You could not have asked for a more perfect day for this year’s Hadley Maple Festival. It was sunny and warm with a light breeze — you could just feel spring in the air. The best way to start off the day-long event is with breakfast at Wilder’s Sugar Shack. It was well worth the… Continue reading Hadley Maple in April Festival
It was only last year that I made homemade pesto for the first time using the basil I grew in my garden. Can you believe it?! An Italian who never made pesto until she was in her thirties?! 😉 As I researched pesto more, I found that you can really use a variety of greens… Continue reading Kale and Basil Pesto
The 7th annual Adirondack Festival of Food and Wine kicks off today at the Mirror Lake Inn! For the next four days, chefs, foodies, locals, wine enthusiests and those from all across the world will gather at in Lake Placid to watch cooking demos, sip speciality wines and open their pallet up to new tastes. The best part?… Continue reading Adirondack Festival of Food and Wine 2012 Preview
The Saturday before Easter I headed to the Wegmans near my Dad’s to pick up items for dinner the next day. If you have ever been to a Wegmans, you know it’s hard to leave there with out coming out with at least half a dozen items you didn’t go in there for. Fourty dollars later, my… Continue reading Fresh Mozzarella, Tomato and Basil ‘Sandwiches’
The nice folks over at Carapelli sent over this delicious recipe the other day! Leeks, quinoa, artichokes and sugar snap peas — doesn’t that just make you want to jump in the kitchen and start cooking this delicious combination?! As long as you use the vegetable broth, it’s vegetarian and gluten free. To make it… Continue reading Quinoa Pilaf with Artichokes, Leeks and Sugar Snap Peas
Well, wasn’t I surprised to see this today — Despite thinking we took out all the plants from last year, apparently, the kale plant wasn’t all gone! Very excited to see some vegetation in the garden even before I plant this year’s garden. 🙂
I love sunflowers! The one in the photo at the top of my site was one I grew the first year I bought my house in the Adirondacks. They got pretty tall, but not like those giant ones you see in photos. For my first attempt at them, it didn’t come out too bad. 🙂… Continue reading My Favorite Flower
Do you use Technorati? It’s been on my list of things to conquer since I started writing The Adirondack Chick, but from the moment I logged in I was confused. Years later, I’ve finally figured out how to add my claim code DNJ7XN7QGPHF to my site Unfortunately, it seems you have to write a separate… Continue reading Trying to Figure Out Technorati
Entertaining 101 will warn you to never try a new recipe, or in my case recipes, for the first time when you are hosting a large crowd. Well, I tend not to follow the rules very well, because it always seems I’m trying some new dish when people come over or I am going somewhere.… Continue reading A Very Veggie Easter {with a few cooking fails}
By now, you are all likely familiar with my friend Vikki, who in addition to being an awesome Disney travel agent and journalist, is also a fabulous cook. Well, yesterday she and her husband were nice enough to invite me to Passover. Since it fell on Good Friday, and some of the guests were Catholic,… Continue reading Vegetarian Passover Extravaganza
