Guest blogger Sarah Bailey (see Thriving in the Sugarhouse, 3/17/17) writes: If you’re already familiar and experienced in keeping cultures and fermenting beverages this recipe is a breeze. If the world of fermentation is totally new to you, I’ll try to make it easy enough. The basic recipe is as follows: 1-3 inches ginger (depending… Read More
70 degrees in the shade
In case you readers have not read the blog comments recently, I will print the poem offered there by Elyse Moore in response to the previous post. Sweet Music to Boil By Sweet music to boil by floats minds on clouds of steam, through harmonies of aching muscles and hearts– Hums liquid tones through soaring… Read More
Music to Boil By
12:30am. When I walked out of the sugarhouse after 16 hours of work, the greater world expanded in stillness below a full moon, but just until I noticed how clouds chased across the moon, how urgently Miller Brook bellowed from the bottom of the valley, and how cool air emanated from the snowbank. … Read More
Sunday Buds and a Washing Machine
Other titles for today’s post could be: I Smell M.U.D. Saving the best for last There’s red in them thar hills Even the sunshine can’t get her off the couch The last option explains why there is no post titled April, Round One. It wasn’t clear that last week’s continual weak run would end –… Read More
Not Your Everyday Oatmeal Cookies
Maple Trout Lilli writes of just the ticket for a cold, rainy day in April: MAPLE GLAZED OATMEAL RAISIN COOKIES A jazzed-up maple cookie with a delectable maple glaze that is a rich compliment to this sweet spicy cookie. I kept the batter in the fridge and made a batch of 12 every day… Read More
It’s Happening
QUICK UPDATE: WEATHER: A fortuitous ordering of fresh snow (6″), freezing nights, sunny days, and the slightest of NW breezes.. HOW’S IT RUNNING? A decent run on chilly overcast Saturday, robust runs yesterday and today. Chief of Operations notes that not a single morning this year has the ice belched out of the lines; there… Read More
Where is Spell Check?
OOPS: Whose nest is this?
March, Final Round
EXPECT NOTHING. Unfortunately we can’t resist viewing the NOAA and Weather Underground sites to check the forecast. The Wunderground site displays a graph that illustrates the fluctuations in air temp hour by hour. We get our hopes up for a sap run when we see it freezing by 9pm and climbing to 40F. by 1pm… Read More
Maple Cardamom Glazed Salmon
The blog’s food correspondent Maple Trout Lilli writes: First, a little history on this very-unique-not-often-used spice we’ve pared with maple syrup. Did you know that: In ancient Eastern medical traditions, cardamom could cure a sore throat, teeth and gum infections, congestion, tuberculosis, stomach, kidney, and lung problems, and also be used as an antidote… Read More
Sunday Buds
Maple Open House While people twirled sugar-on-snow onto their wooden sticks bit into dill pickles slipped closer to the bonfire sipped sap coffee while chatting with someone they knew from somewhere else, While children slid down the snowbank again and again scrambled back up on all fours rubbed the smoke out of their eyes clung… Read More
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