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Double Dipping

Double Dipping

What do an Inuksuk and Balvenie Doublewood have in common? Normally not much. But this Inuksuk’s made of homemade shortbreads, a Scottish treat, and Balvenie is… well, if I have to explain you might as well stop reading. This is a not-so-subtle reminder to local 

Local Saturday — Shepherd’s Watch

Local Saturday — Shepherd’s Watch

You’ll have to forgive me. I can’t resist this. Shepherd’s Watches covers everything… From feet to meat. Shepherd’s Watch is a local dairy sheep farm that produces everything ewe-ish — from wool socks to lamb chops, yogurt to yarn. They make artisan sheep cheese and 

Baked Apples

Baked Apples

Baked apples are very easy to make, but a challenge to photograph. If you try to take a picture while they’re piping hot and beautifully plump, the steam fogs the camera lense. If you wait until they cool, they look like they were left on 

Maple

Maple

We’re having a spectacular autumn here. The trees have turned every fall shade imaginable, from lemon yellow to bright pumpkin, rusty paprika to deep crimson. And when the sun catches them at the right angle, they look like they’re on fire. I’ve snapped a hundred 

Mangled Butter and the Tao of Stieb

Mangled Butter and the Tao of Stieb

What we have here is a failure to communicate. When I said, “Andrew darling, the unsalted butter is mine and mine alone. Don’t touch it or you’ll eat catfood for a week,” it didn’t give him carte blanche to revert to his bachelor ways and 

Mission Accomplished

Mission Accomplished

The gratitude continues. Thanks to Phil, lead guitarist for Sack of Yams and fellow apple enthusiast, we got the heads up that our orchard of choice was overrun with Thanksgiving Day pickers. Good for the apple growers, bad for impatient people like me. Unwilling to 

Gone Apple Pickin’

Gone Apple Pickin’

For real this time. Others, who can be trusted with this kind of thing, called to confirm the orchard: has apples conducts apple picking is open today Chudleigh’s, here we come!

Thanksgiving Day Gratitude

Thanksgiving Day Gratitude

Serves me right for making that smart alec remark about apple picking and foreign films. Yesterday’s outing didn’t go as planned. And it’s all my fault. I made an erroneous assumption and failed to communicate adequately. Because of this, there is no apple pie for 

Flipper

Flipper

Yesterday I had Dana worried I was cooking up penguins. Anyone else wonder if I’d lost my locavore leanings as well as my mind? Looking back I realized I’ve posted a few odd animal shots this week. Continuing the trend and hoping to pass it