Apples are big and beautiful and plentiful this harvest season. Will cooks know what to do with all those apples? Many don’t realize there are endless applications for using apples beyond the sauces, pies, and crisps. Prolong the apple experience through the holidays...
Here is Amy Houts shown with her books at the Cider Fest. She brought along her Cooking Around the Calendar with Kids and her Cooking Around the Country with Kids books. The children who stopped by our table were the highlight of the afternoon. One little girl spent...
What an enjoyable day we had at the Louisburg Cider Mill Cider Fest on Saturday! The Cider Mill is located in Louisburg, Kansas, 20 minutes south of Kansas City....
With the bountiful apple harvest this year, it's a rare person who doesn't end up with a bushel, a peck, or only a pound of apples. But what to do with them? In my apple cookbook, From the Apple Orchard - Recipes for Apple Lovers, I have over 150 ways of preparing...
Chef Crombie here helping you answer the question of what to do with all the apples you bought this week-end. The apple harvest is plentiful this year and you must fill your larder with all things apple while they are at their best. Whether you have a bushel, a peck,...
Image by WxMom via Flickr I drove 75 miles to deliver apple cookbooks yesterday. Nebraska City, Nebraska is having an Applejack Festival this weekend, September 18-19, and Tree Adventure at Arbor Day Farm needed more books. I wanted to make sure they had them in time....
Today Chef Crombie wants you to read about his favorite apple cookbook by Lee Jackson. Read on... Apples, Apples Everywhere—Favorite Recipes From America's Orchards profiles a cross section of America’s orchards and their recipes. It’s like taking a beautiful cross...
Now with school started and cooler weather upon us, thoughts turn to re-setting goals again. One of our earlier goals, "eating healthy" may have slipped a little with cook outs, reunions, picnics and other activities. Fall also makes us think of different foods to...
I've always loved apple orchards - from their spring showy flowering beauty to their ripe, rich, crunchy fruit in the fall. Growing up in Wisconsin, a prime apple producing state, our family had what we called "the orchard". It was a collection of many different...
Parents should help children make good food choices. Food preferences in children are largely developed by age five. Therefore, it's important that parents help their children develop a taste for nutritious food early. Here are ways you can involve your children in...
