You may have heard about the dump of snow that befell the Northeast this past week. It appears as though spring might be staging a comeback this weekend and I needed to help it along with a fruit pie. I wanted to make a Strawberry Rhubarb pie and in my search for a good, interesting [...]

I happen to prefer pie with just one crust, especially apple pie. Which is not to say that I will reject any offering of pie with a top crust.
This is the go-to apple pie recipe in my family. I left the apples just a tad too chunky this time around. It was tasty, but didn’t [...]

The past weekend was marked with glorious warm fall weather, so we decided to take a run up to a cider mill that we stumbled upon last year. The Burrville Cider Mill is located near Watertown, NY and is one of the oldest structures in the area, having been built in 1801 [...]

My mom purchased numerous quarts of freshly picked blackberries the other day from a stand somewhere in the vicinity of Herkimer, NY. Am I being vague about where it is as though I am a large bear who found a particularly nice bush at the egde of the woods? Why yes I am…
As good as [...]