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 …
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 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. …
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’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 …
The smell of black coffee and fried eggs wafted out the door Friday afternoon into the cramped parking lot of Hyde’s Diner. Inside, owner Laura Hyde worked with her family of cooks in the …
Seven Valleys Food Rescue stretches a grant dollar like a thrifty shopper at the grocery store. Its recent $150,000 grant will help it: Buy refrigeration units for Cortland County food …
A fire’s warmth cut through the cold winter air Saturday at Lime Hollow Nature Center, and sitting by it, a boy began to grow impatient. "Are you getting warm, Joseph?" said Anthony Vicente, …
People unfamiliar with the forest may think there’s nothing to be foraged during cold winter months, but even with a chill in the air, Wild Woman Botanicals’ Hana Pandori can find …
I like to be proud of the fact that I spare a turkey every Thanksgiving by not consuming one. Nothing is forbidding me from it except for the fact that I didn’t like the taste of it the last …
DRYDEN – Kayla Lane had been working her plans for the corner space at routes 38 and 13 in Dryden for months, but finally put the name in the window: The Corner Brew, a return to having a cafe …
When Kateryna Yanchuk, of Cortlandville moved to America from Ukraine in 2011, she tried making traditinoal Ukrainian food, but but couldn’t find the right ingredients. The flour, ketchup, …
The Zonta Club of Cortland will have its second Women, Wine and History event to celebrate international women 7 to 9 p.m. Nov. 4 at the Center for the Arts of Homer.Tickets are $30 each at …
Seven Valleys Health Coalition plans to construct an edible park in Homer, a recreation space where people can learn about and taste wild foods native to the area.The park along the West Branch of …
October is my favorite month of the year. Leaves change into bright colors, the weather stays unpredictable, but you still get those perfect fall days and the sunsets are the best this time of the …
Fall is here — think apple cider, doughnuts, pumpkins and most important the long drives through Central New York to see the beautiful, vibrant foliage.The reds and oranges of oaks and maples, …
