“A Perfect Match Roasthouse Pub Pairs Craft Beer with a Gourmet Twist on Comfort Food In October 2010, the floundering Philly Cheesesteak Factory on MD. 355 in Frederick was at a crossroads: its owners, the Belles family who also owns Belles’ Sports Bar, could either close down the sub shop…
Can you believe it’s almost January already? Twenty-freakin-twelve?? Photo: Then Again Photography I don’t know about you, but 2011 has flown by for me, and it hasn’t felt like an orderly pace either. More like mayhem and chaos – in a good way. You may have heard stories of a…
Holiday cookie baking is in full swing (if you’re the Christmas celebrating type), as evident on blogs, Facebook news feeds and lots of neighborhood cookie exchanges. We baked one batch of sugar cookies here – with store bought dough because I’m too busy this week to bother with “from scratch”…
Earlier this fall, I had the opportunity to attend the awesome, fantastic, so-much-fun Blogalicious, where I listened to uplifting and motivating seminars by Rene Syler and a slew of others. I (also) got to meet Chef Aaron McCargo Jr. from Food Network, as you may remember: He was there to talk…
Those of you that have been reading my blog for a while may remember last year when I asked young farmers, Josie and Shawn, to guest post about their experiences starting a small farm. Their focus was on fresh food grown with no pesticides, herbicides or synthetic fertilizers. Basically, they…
One of the things I’ve always loved about cooking is the ability to try a recipe and then change it up to make it my own. But, sometimes a recipe is so perfect just the way it started that altering it would seem almost offensive. Like the recipe for this…