Mar 21, 2010
JACK BRUBAKER
Here's the recipe for an Amish wedding feast in Paradise:Roast chicken with filling and gravy, mashed potatoes, creamed celery, cole slaw, roll, applesauce, fruit salad, doughnut, apple or cherry pie, ice cream, lemonade.Plus gravy and butter. As much as you can eat. No-frills farm food served with ...
Mar 21, 2010
CLAUDIA W. ESBENSHADE
Lights, camera, bake!In the world of television reality shows, TLC's "Ultimate Cake Off" has added more than a cup of comedy and a dash of drama for the past two seasons.Tomorrow night, a Lancaster team of cake designers from The House of Clarendon will showcase its skills under pressu...
Mar 21, 2010
JON RUTTER
A slice of chocolate mousse cake baked the Carol Jean Roberts way is to die for.Literally.It not only tastes heavenly. It's made with a special blend of her own two gluten-free rice flours.That means she can have her cake and eat it in peace, knowing it won't damage her small intestine.Reach...
Mar 21, 2010
CLAUDIA W. ESBENSHADE
Food Network's "Ace of Cakes" star Duff Goldman recently paid a visit to Sight & Sound Theatre with a special delivery — and camera crew in tow.Goldman and his staff at Charm City Cakes in Baltimore, created a 5-foot-tall dulce de leche cake for the theater's invitation-o...
Mar 14, 2010
MARCI WATTERSON
Irish song and dance weren't the only traditional tokens early immigrants from Ireland brought over with them to the New World.They brought luck, the legendary and elusive Leprechaun!As any family would, a few items of food may have been carried aboard the ship and in doing so, they may have ina...
Mar 14, 2010
STAFF
There are 300 recipes in the Lancaster Brethren in Christ cookbook from more than 50 contributors. It published the cookbook in July to help fund the church's kitchen project.Church members have meals before their Wednesday night programs and have used a number of recipes from the cookbook for t...
Feb 14, 2010
SUSAN JURGELSKI
Let's put sex appeal on the butcher's block.Sultry, pouty actors and rock stars who made the cut when People magazine and TV Guide recently ranked and publicized 2009's "sexiest men alive" may now be facing beefy competition.Word's out that knife-wielding butchers, are, ahe...
Jan 31, 2010
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
You know them as masters of the kitchen in some of the area's most popular restaurants. But what do Lancaster County chefs cook on their days off?Do they bring their restaurant skills home, or do they make nothing more complicated than a ham sandwich?We asked some culinary wizards those very que...
Jan 31, 2010
ERIC STARK, Sunday Best
My wife, Cindy, was looking for a recipe to use zucchini from our garden and stumbled on this chicken chowder recipe.It's one of our favorite meals. Cindy likes to say, "It tastes good and it is healthy for you." I like to make it less healthy by using scoop-shaped tortilla chips to eat it. It's mor...
Jan 31, 2010
MARCI WATTERSON
Valentine's Day is just around the corner; special preparations are taking form. A small token of love: flowers, candy and, oh yes, dinner plans. OK, hang on before going over budget.Many years ago, a statement was made and to this day, I believe it holds true. Well, some of it anyway. "The...
Jan 24, 2010
JEANNETTE SCOTT
Age: 42Residence: Warwick TownshipProfession: French teacher, Warwick High School; adjunct professor, Millersville University.Originally from Quebec, Renée Campeau has fond memories of her grandmother baking bread and making vegetable soup, and of her parents making beignets (fried donuts wit...
Jan 24, 2010
ANNE KOENIG, Living Editor
Age: 77Residence: DenverProfession: Retired U.S. Air Force chaplain"Raised by a single father, I had to learn to cook," noted Paul H. Wragg. "Courtesy of the Air Force," he added, "I lived in Turkey, France, Spain and the Philippines. I traveled extensively in the Middle Eas...
Jan 24, 2010
DENNIS LARISON, Business Editor
The gardens at Lime Spring Farm, the setting for numerous weddings last year, now lie dormant, but the kitchens there will burst to life next week in the farm's latest commercial venture.Marilyn Berger, one of the partners who now owns the historic property on the western outskirts of Rohrerstow...
Jan 17, 2010
STEPHEN KOPFINGER, Sunday Best
I'm not a big soup-eater. I like it, but I have to be in the right mood for it. A really cold, gloomy day, however, does help.This potato soup, from my mother, Dorothy Kopfinger, is about as basic as it sounds, but it's an easy comfort food. Like many not-written-down recipes, you can pretty much ad...
Jan 10, 2010
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
Age: 45Profession: Publisher of Fine Living Lancaster magazine and a loan officer with MNET Mortgage Corp.Town: LandisvilleMark Pontz sees cooking as a dual-natured asset."I love to eat and cooking is a great marriage of the two equally dominant parts of my personality," said Pontz, husban...
Jan 03, 2010
MARY BETH SCHWEIGERT
Heather Fenimore is convinced organic food is the best choice for her family.Fenimore, a Manheim Township social-services worker, first dabbled in organics more than 20 years ago, as a college student.Motherhood intensified her desire to protect the environment and her new family's health. Organ...
Jan 03, 2010
STAFF
Consumers pay a premium for organic food.Organic romaine lettuce can cost about 60 cents more than conventional. A pound of organic grapes runs 50 cents to $1 more.And at around $4, a half-gallon of organic 2 percent milk costs more than twice as much as its conventional counterpart.Organic food is ...
Jan 03, 2010
STAFF
Organic food is a relatively new area of research, emerging only over the last decade or two, with little funding and often-conflicting results.A headline-making British study, published last summer in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found no significant nutritional difference between or...
Jan 03, 2010
JO-ANN GREENE, Sunday Best
When I heard Living Editor Anne Koenig mention ordering baked oatmeal in a restaurant, I piped up, "I've got a recipe for that."I meant that I had a cookbook with a recipe for Baked Oatmeal.It appears in "The Central Market Cookbook," the 1989 edition by Phyllis Pellman Good and Louise Stoltzfus.Wha...
Jan 03, 2010
MARY BETH SCHWEIGERT
Originally, all farming was organic. But around World War II, the use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers spread quickly, changing the face of agriculture. A sort of counterrevolution &tstr; the return to organic approaches &tstr; grew from there. • 1940: British agricultural scholar...
