Cook & Sip

Kitchen…many iterations

Kitchen…many iterations

I am a chronic rearranger.  For as long as I can remember I have rearranged furniture, reorganized stuff, shuffled, moved, and then in some cases, put it all back where it was originally in the same day. Not exactly sure why I do this, but […]

Dinner at Salt Water Farm

Dinner at Salt Water Farm

Late last summer I visited Salt Water Farm in Lincolnville, Maine again, but this time for one of their farm dinners.  My prior visit was to attend one of the much hailed cooking classes at the farm.  I wrote about it here. Curated, hosted, planned, […]

Sticky Toffee Pudding-gluten free

Sticky Toffee Pudding-gluten free

After enjoying some amazing, sticky toffee pudding while visiting London over the Christmas holidays, I had serious cravings upon my return and decided to make to my own.  It has been several years since I made it and the last experience doing so was a […]

Beautiful satsuma

Beautiful satsuma

Orange heaven if there is such a place.

Salt Water Farm-Lincolnville, Maine

Salt Water Farm-Lincolnville, Maine

After at least two years of staring at a note on my bulletin board about Salt Water Farm Cooking School on the Maine coast in Lincolnville, I finally attended a class a few weeks ago and it was by far, one of the best moves […]

Sugared Apples

Sugared Apples

Just finished up this lovely little square platter in my pottery class.  Hope to have happy Christmas dreams of sugared apples.

Winging it-Fish Chowder

Winging it-Fish Chowder

The past few nights have been chilly, raw and damp.  Not exactly quintessential June weather, but then again, June is a wild card.  Sometimes it’s hot and humid, sometimes rainy and gloomy and sometimes, although not often, it is lovely, warm and sunny.  This is […]

Carrot coconut muffins

Carrot coconut muffins

In an effort to use some carrots before they spoiled and to get rid of all of the remaining ingredients from holiday baking (think calorie laden sweet stuff) I tinkered with muffin making yesterday afternoon and I think I found a winner.  Although named carrot […]

Vintage Cookbooks

Vintage Cookbooks

My maternal grandmother was a fantastic cook. Yes, I know everyone says that about their grandmother, but she really was a master at classic cooking and actually earned her living for a time cooking for well-to-do families in Connecticut’s quiet corner.  In her later years […]