Lentils are a great bean to work with. They cook up in about 30 minutes, you don’t need to pre-soak them and they are packed with flavor. You have to keep an eye on them while they are cooking though. If you over cook them, they turn into mush. Green French lentils hold up a [...]

This is a quick and easy recipe for eggplant Parmesan “light.” It’s light because it’s not coated in breadcrumbs and fried, not that there’s anything wrong with that. It’s quick and easy because all you have to do is stack the ingredients and pop it in the oven. We topped ours with a little homemade [...]

Grafton Village Cheese Shop 33 Townshend Road Grafton, VT 05146 800-472-3866 Daniel’s House Café 92 Main St Grafton, VT 05146 800-843-1801 Part of: Vermont 08 – Cheese & Tasty Things Tour Our visit a couple of years ago to Grafton Village Cheese Company is what really planted the seed in our minds for our ‘08 Cheese Tour. Grafton Cheddar defines what good cheddar should [...]

Frog City Cheese 106 Messer Hill Road Plymouth Notch, VT 05056 802-672-3650 Part of: Vermont 08 – Cheese & Tasty Things Tour The are too many good cheese places to visit in Vermont. We tried to make it to as many as possible and unfortunately some of the ones we made it to closed before we got there. OK, so [...]

Bufala di Vermont 2749 Church Hill Road S. Woodstock, VT 05071 802-457-4540 Part of: Vermont 08 – Cheese & Tasty Things Tour Mozzarella is a soft cheese that is best fresh. I got water buffalo mozzarella before from Vace that was flown in from Italy. It was very tasty and creamy but it lacked the “freshness” of really fresh mozzarella. [...]

Crowley Cheese 14 Crowley Lane Healdville, VT 05758 Phone: (802)259-2340 Part of: Vermont 08 – Cheese & Tasty Things Tour I met one of the most amazing cheese makers on our tour…and I totally forgot to ask his name. This is what separates us bloggers from real reporters. Every now and then we miss some details. Luckily he was wearing [...]

The final post in my Crepe Trilogy is on savory crepes. Savory crepes make for an awesome sandwich. This recipe calls for cooking the crepes in the oven, which gets the outside of the crepes nice and crispy. With the melty cheese and salty ham, it is an irresistible treat. The best part is that [...]

This post represents a first for me…it is the first time I posted the same day I cooked something. Usually I am pretty lazy and there is a week or even a month between cooking and posting. I am going to try and get better about that, or just stop worrying about writing witty things [...]