Heritage Vineyards is shipping free to NJ residents
THIS is what I’ve been waiting for! The ability to go online, order my favorite NJ wines, and have them shipped directly to my home. It’s what we all fought so hard for over the past couple of years...
View Article‘Edible Jersey Farmers’ Market Cookbook’: Top 5 recipe I can’t wait to make
I picked up a copy of the new “Edible Jersey Farmers’ Market Cookbook” on Saturday when I was at the Collingswood Farmers Market. This is what Edible Jersey’s website has to say about their first...
View ArticleEnd of season tomato bumper crop? Try oven drying them.
Yesterday, I oven-dried a bunch of grape tomatoes. I’d love to tell you they came from my own garden, but my garden got incredibly neglected this summer and produced very little. These were given to me...
View ArticleYum! Local Courtland apples with cheddar cheese
Fresh, in season, New Jersey Courtland apples. I didn’t cook dinner last night. We went to a 4:30 movie (Trouble with the Curve) and no one was hungry when we got home. Somewhere around 8:30 while we...
View ArticleMake this: Closet Cooking’s roasted red pepper and goat cheese alfredo pasta
A few weeks ago, I did a post on 5 recipes for red bell peppers on Mother Nature Network. I always buy red peppers at the end of their growing season when they are plentiful and the least expensive,...
View ArticleMake this: Corn bread pudding
I’m sure come Friday, there will be plenty of leftover corn bread from Thanksgiving dinners all over the country. Here’s one way to use it up. Martha Stewart has a corn bread pudding recipe on her...
View ArticleLocavore odds and ends: NJ has a pending single-use bag tax and more
The leftovers of five types of cheese get turned into a delicious cheese spread the French way by making fromage fort. Happy New Year! It’s been the longest three-day week, hasn’t it? Has it really...
View ArticleMake this: Slow cooker venison stew
Slow cooker venison stew Last spring, my uncle brought me a venison shoulder roast from deer hunting season. I put it in the freezer, and I never got around to doing anything with it. Over the weekend,...
View ArticleMake this: Spicy Walnut Apple Butter Pork Loin
Spicy Walnut Apple Butter Pork Loin There are many lessons that those of us of a certain age learned from “The Brady Bunch.” One is that pork and apples go together. (Can’t you just see Peter in his...
View ArticleMake this: Caramelized butternut squash
I had a butternut squash sitting in my kitchen for well over a month, waiting for me to do something with it. When Jerry Stone of Cooking Stoned put a video showing how to make Caramelized Butternut...
View ArticleMake this: Chef Dennis’ Deconstructed Chicken Stew
Chef Dennis’ Deconstructed Chicken Stew – perfect on a cold February night. I got back yesterday afternoon from a wonderful weekend in New York City, and honestly, it hadn’t occurred to me that I was...
View ArticleMake this: Upside Down Caramelized Skillet Banana Cake
I needed to make something new. Something different. Something decadent. I was just in the mood. I had a bunch of brown bananas in the freezer, and I knew that my regular banana bread wasn’t going to...
View ArticleChef Jose Garces’ Roasted Squash Soup with Crab and Zucchini
Jose Garces’ Sopa de Calabaza con Cangrejo (Photo: Jason Varney) Earlier I told you about Chef Jose Garces’ dinner that he’ll be hosting next Thursday night at Amada inside Revel in Atlantic City to...
View ArticleMake this: Parmesan Baked Bananas with Honey & Cinnamon
Parmesan Baked Bananas with Honey & Cinnamon It all started with a tweet. Madame Fromage tweeted “Today I heard from a pair of Brazilian cheese bloggers. My world opens:...
View ArticleMake this: Strawberry Crumb Bars from The Girl in the Little Red Kitchen
After a fun day at the Philadelphia Comic Con yesterday, we popped into the Reading Terminal Market to stop at the Fair Food Stand. I didn’t get to the farmers market this weekend, and I wanted to grab...
View ArticleBenefits of local honey
SJL welcomes local freelancer Deb McCarson today as guest poster. Deb writes for South Jersey Mom, The Women of Gloucester County, and other publications. _________ Local honey farmers had a recent...
View ArticleMake this: Sourdough Panzanella with Roasted Summer Vegetables
This is one of my all-time favorite dishes to make, and I can’t believe I’ve never posted about it before here on SJL. At least I don’t think I have. When I saw on Saturday that squash and zucchini...
View ArticleMake this: Cherry Cobbler for Two from Jo Cooks
I bought a bunch of cherries to make a Roasted Cherry and Sage Cocktail (so good!) that I posted about on MNN. I had quite a bit leftover, but not enough to make a whole pie or cobbler. So I made the...
View ArticleHow to make Rhubarb Shrub Syrup, or welcome to my new obession
At the Philly Farm & Food Fest, I bought a bottle of Tait Farm Ginger Shrub, and since then I’ve been a bit obsessed with shrubs. A shrub is a concentrated syrup made of fruit, sugar and vinegar....
View ArticleCranberry Mule Mocktail
Last I heard, New Jersey was the third largest cranberry producing state in the country. Lots of the tart berries that end up as jellies and relishes for Thanksgiving come right from the Garden State....
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