Cake is in the air. If ever there was a weekend for cake, this is it. I’m writing this post indoors wearing my thickest fleece jacket and a wool hat. Yesterday’s snow lingers; my daffodils huddle by the sap shed, still waiting to blossom. It’s May 10th. “Where there is cake, there is hope, and… Read More
Let’s Bake a Cake
Maple Trout Lilli writes: PARSNIP CAKE WITH MAPLE MASCARPONE CREAM “Where there is cake, there is hope, and there is always cake.” – Dean Koontz I was speaking with my sister the other day about the state of our world and she said “make a cake – you’ll feel better”…. So I pulled out my… Read More
Maple Trout LIlli’s Thai Curry Soup
Our beloved food correspondent Maple Trout Lilli is back! She nourished the crew on a recent boiling day with this fine soup. I couldn’t taste the maple but I could taste the difference. She writes: CUSTOM THAI CURRY SOUP WITH A hint OF MAPLE A light but warming soup for when it’s still light at… Read More
Throwback Thursday Recipe
While the crew fills the woodshed and the trout lilies thrust into bloom on the forest floor, our food correspondent Maple Trout Lilli offers her Pièce de Resistance du Printemps 2019. She writes: Spring is here, the grass is greening up and our wonderful local farmers up the road have been harvesting their spinach that… Read More
Maple-Oat Ice Cream Sandwich Cookies
Maple Trout Lilli writes: My inspiration for these was a warm, spring, 50-degree day this past week and anticipating free cone day at Ben & Jerry’s. But, alas, it’s back to winter as I write, and free cone day isn’t until April 9th this year. But make these and you’ll feel like it’s almost summer,… Read More
Maple Trout Lilli Bakes Salmon for Dinner
From a well-lit kitchen in the yellow house at the top of fifteen broad stone steps comes the first food missive of Sugar Season 2019. Our Food Correspondent, Maple Trout Lilli, writes: MAPLE-MISO SALMON Weeknight salmon?? Salty miso paste and ever-so-sweet maple syrup are the backbone of this simple marinade…. It’s about as uncomplicated as… Read More
Global Energy Cookies
Who ever turns down the offer of a good homemade cookie? No one I know. Maple Trout Lilli writes: Notice how sunlight passing through pure, fresh VT maple syrup, casts an amber glow onto the plate of these Global Energy Cookies? Eat more syrup and ignite a glow from within! Another recipe from the cookbook… Read More
Sweet Potato and Broccoli Bowl
This afternoon, food correspondent Maple Trout Lilli emerged from her car bearing a platter heaped high with dinner. I might have written that she brought up a dish for our dinner, but it turns out it’s a bowl not a dish. We’re tired of dishes, right? Today is only the second time I’ve heard of… Read More
Broiled Oranges with Cardamom Syrup. Maple Glazed Pecans.
Anyone visiting the Nebraska Knoll sugarhouse may note the bag of oranges on the blue counter. We all snack on oranges since they juicily offset the pore-pervading maple bouquet. The citrus cuts the sweet. Maple Trout Lilli ventures into the realm of maple and orange with a fresh sense of the possible (and the elegant).… Read More
Super Hero Muffins
As you drive into Nebraska Valley, first on the left is a house where baby lambs frisk about near their mamas. At the far end of a field you may see the lights on in the kitchen of a yellow house settled at the top of fifteen broad stone steps. When I drive by towards… Read More
