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
Let The Games Begin
Dear Reader, Out the window on this Monday morning after the final day of the 2018 Olympics, a squirrel sprints across the snow. Old Blue, the 1964 International truck that is not blue but green, rests angled beside the stack of pine chunks harvested from the road the day after the Halloween Wind Storm. Winter… Read More
Blizzard Soup
O happy day, Vermont is in the midst of a blizzard. Stay home, don’t venture out, the newscasters advise. Sit by the woodstove with a neighbor and sip hot soup, I advise. Serendipitously, Maple Trout Lilli stopped by with carrot soup, cashew cream, and croutons. She writes: If you have ever ventured into the world… Read More
Maple Trout Lilli’s Latte
Our celebrated Food Correspondent Maple Trout Lilli is back in town. She writes: WARMING MORNING MAPLE LATTE I came across this heavenly potion on the internet as a coffee/tea alternative and I’m hooked. Morning, afternoon or evening, this somewhat spicy potion will not disappoint. Just add hot water to the following fine ingredients and you won’t be… Read More
Baby Bundts
To celebrate the completion of Woods Cleanup (all 9635 taps have been pulled and circa fifty miles of line rinsed) I thought I’d bake a cake, but I was out of eggs, and while I was contemplating Oh Boy Pudding that doesn’t require eggs, Maple Trout Lilli wrote in about baby bundt cakes created by a… Read More
Vinegar Pie
On this blustery Sunday (wind chill 6 degrees), Maple Trout Lilli stayed cozy in her kitchen. She writes: VINEGAR PIE – It’s Actually Really Good Normally I don’t associate vinegar with dessert and it’s for this reason that the following recipe grabbed my attention. From another era when you worked with what was locally… Read More
Cherish the Pancake
I get quite a few phone calls on Saturday mornings from grandfathers who are flipping pancakes for their grandchildren and notice that the jug of syrup is just about empty and won’t get them through another weekend. Quite regularly, local fathers drive up to the sugarhouse between 8 and 9am on Saturday mornings because they… Read More
