Bourbon Apple Hot Toddy Cures the Cold?
The extreme cold doesn’t seem to be letting up any time soon, and we want to share a recipe we found that may help with the sniffles — or, if nothing else, at least...
(Photos, Recipes) Chef Stooksbury and Ballotin Offer "Home Party" Delight at MESA
MESA, A Collaborative Kitchen, 216 Pearl St in New Albany, is set up like a beautiful home kitchen, and taking a seat at their counter to watch the featured chef of the evening is...
Easy Entertaining — Hot Dogs & Board Games
Sometimes entertaining isn't about the most complicated recipes and chic tableware. It’s about getting together with people you like without having to spend hours of preparation.
Keeping it easy and fun is as simple as hot dogs...
Easy Entertaining: Mexican Fiesta
Here’s a party idea perfect for when the weather begins to chill. Take a trip to Mexico without ever leaving your home.
Here are a few easy recipes that are delicious, filling and very affordable....
Cooking with Ron—Stews to Chase the Winter Blues
When winter winds nip at the nose, when the clouds spit snow and puddles freeze – that is the time for comforting meals of stew in steaming bowls accompanied by chunks of crusty bread.
Stews...
Cooking with Tomatoes
If I had known when I was in college that “food historian” was a possible profession, my career path might have been different. Alas, I am constrained merely to be an eager audience for...
Cooking With Ron: Bountiful Berries
To show you how old I am, I remember when fresh berries were markers of the seasons. Strawberries appeared only at the height of spring, in late May or early June, and heralded the...
Pawpaw season has begun!
I mentioned in the recent F&D recipe story about pawpaws (below) that I would make a point to inform readers when paw paws are available at farmers markets. For two weeks now, I have been...
Garden of Gourds
Summer squash–zucchini and its relatives in the cucurbita family–strike me as the Rodney Dangerfield of vegetables: they “don’t get no respect.” Backyard garden standards nearly as common as tomatoes, ubiquitous at farmers markets, summer...
Here’s the Beef — Eat local (recipe included)
Though you can’t tell it by the Toyotas and the UPS trucks, perhaps, Kentucky is an agriculture state.
Though manufacturing, services, mining and other industries contribute their part, Kentucky ranks fifth in the country in the...
