Sometimes I can be such a doofus. The spouse and I were negotiating the big meal of the week, the meal that provides us our Sunday dinner then fills our lunches for much of the week. …
Watching my wife’s family get together is like watching performance art. But feeding them is the greatest challenge in easy eating that I can imagine. They actually like each other. My …
I really, really try to eat all my Christmas goodies before Easter. It’s not always easy. Last Christmas, Santa stuffed my stocking with a collection of pretzels, candied nuts, chocolate, …
The candy canes had been hanging from a shelf in the bay window since Christmas. They were a gift from an in-law, meant to dress up a perfectly adequate wrapping job on a Christmas gift. But it …
ITHACA — The Ithaca Farmers Market returns for the season from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 6 at the Steamboat Landing Pavilion. The market plans to offer a variety of products including …
The family legend: Pepere, my great-grandfather, loved boiled dinner. Boiled dinner in my family was a French-Canadian classic. Farm food, from my great-grandparents’ childhood in Quebec …
As a new adult, (and by new adult, I mean I’ve been out of college for a year), I don’t have a ton of cooking experience. I always assumed people just learn to cook without trying once …
Every cook has some kryptonite. Mine is an omelette. I love ‘em. Light, fluffy, with lots of stuff inside. I’m particularly fond of mushrooms, cheese and whatever I can find in the …
When one is just this side of 60, “adventure” takes on a new meaning. No longer is adventure an impulsive climb above the tree line, or that dip in a lake that was covered by ice …
My wife, The Brain, likes to point out to me that the most environmental thing a person can do isn’t to recycle, or to buy a hybrid car, or turn the lights out. It’s to eat a plant-based …
What started as a project to document family recipes turned into a year of photographing, editing and designing a cookbook. Christine and Margaret Gutchess of Cortland have published their original cookbook “Homebody,” which they describe as “simple, delicious recipes for the homebodies like us.”
Chefs often say that we eat first with our eyes, a reminder that appearance matters. I disagree; I think we eat first with our memories. The date was July 6, 1990. It had been a hot, busy day, …
I perused the cupboard a few weeks ago and announced to the spousal unit: “I need to find someone to score some honey.” “You know, if you said that to anyone else, …
My mother, Lisa Byrne, makes more than 1,400 Christmas cookies every holiday season. Every Columbus Day, she bakes her first batch of cookies, and stashes them in one of my dad’s recent …
The extended family would troop across New Hampshire every Christmas Eve when I was a boy, alighting somewhere between sunset and bedtime to fill the living room with noise and gifts under the tree. …
Every Friday is pasta night. Every. Damn. Friday. The little guy (Even though he’s nearly 3 inches taller than me, he’ll always be shorter) likes filled pastas: ravioli, …
A breakfast to remember, unless it’s Christmas morning It was the most underappreciated breakfast in history. Families have their holiday traditions: warm cinnamon buns and …
The most prolific, tasty beans from my garden present a challenge. They’re black. A nice Boston baked bean dish or my go-to maple-garlic baked beans look like asphalt, regardless of how …
We were nerds incarnate. We’d spend a Sunday afternoon, or maybe all day Saturday, and sometimes on a weeknight, surrounded by 20-sided dice, lead figurines and the detritus of a bad …
Higher energy and labor costs in producing, processing and transporting food has led to increasing prices at the store. Cutting food costs and concern for the wholesomeness of food have led many …
Every family has a spaghetti sauce recipe, and of course, that’s the best spaghetti sauce recipe ever. Who has a better apple pie than your mother or grandmother, except, …
I have to admit, I recently played pickleball. I usually don’t go for fads. I don’t do social media challenges because everyone else seems to be doing them. I don’t feel a need …
The Cortland Repertory Theatre’s early bird renewal drive will continue through Oct. 31, offering a discount to the theater’s 2024 summer season. A five-show subscription costs $180 …
I’ve been asking around the newsroom for recipes since it’s always interesting to see what others are eating. I like seeing a recipe and modifying it to my dietary needs. Sports Editor …
Air fryers have been a recent craze and I bought mine in 2020 when Best Buy had an early Black Friday sale to order online and pick up from the parking lot due to COVID. It was only $30 so it’s …
