Daylight Savings Breakfast

Maple Trout Lilli springs forward with a light take on breakfast:   DAYLIGHT SAVINGS BREAKFAST The gap between store-bought granola and homemade is so vast, there’s no bridging it. There is only accepting that once you make it at home, you’ll never go back to store- bought….and if you make this once, you’ll make it… Read More

Could freeze tonight

  QUICK UPDATE from the couch: As expected during these milder-than-mild March days and nights, the sap has run continuously since Tuesday, but not with conviction. Today’s crisp air and northwest breeze qualified as sugaring weather, and tonight it is supposed to freeze at last – but then quickly climb out of sugaring weather into the 50’s.… Read More

Countdown: 5,4,3,2,1

  And Still SUNDAY Maple crowns sunlit and still, Bobcat tracks frozen and still, March air bright and still, Falls Brook a little frozen, a little still, Vacuum pump not on and still, Even the birds mostly resting and still. Walking in the woods, her mind stills. MONDAY And still it’s trying to snow, And still he’s… Read More

Ka-Pow

  Our Food Correspondent Maple Trout Lilli writes:   GREEN, GREENS, GREENS I recently read an article whose byline was “Let’s all stop pretending we love Kale.” Agreed, so let’s eat Chard instead. A vibrant dressing makes these humble leaves go Ka-Pow. Jolt your taste buds like the Nebraska Knoll crew jolts the boiling sap… Read More