I am dying to play with this new Plugin that our super webmaster has added to the Sauced blog! You should now be able to print our recipes without having to print all of our annoying scintillating commentary at the same time. In our plethora-of-fall-veggies CSA-farm-share-life (click here for details), I ended up looking for a new way to prepare ... Read More »
In desperate need of a winter sport! Help! Here comes winter, and I need to be excited. I’m not excited. I want summer. I want sun. I want long days and warm evenings. It used to be the case that with every predicted snowstorm, we would jump up and down with joy! Yippee! Skiing! We had season passes. We were ... Read More »
Have we run out of things to say on Sauced? There was a theme-change-gone-wrong, but in its place we have a bright new format. There was a one-month silence, followed by less than numerous posts. How are you to interpret the sum total? Are we just plum outta thoughts? If that is the impression I have given, then you are ... Read More »
Nothing says fall like cider donuts, apple picking and, of course, hard cider. And Hick’s Orchard is the place where all three autumn classics can be found, purchased and consumed. Hick’s hard cider is sold under the Slyboro Ciderhouse name with offerings that run the gambit from bone-dry to dessert-wine-sweet. After consuming enough-cider-donuts-to-feed-a-small-country just a few donuts, my friends and I made our ... Read More »
Note to self: Never start thinking you are too cool. After declaring my utter joy at driving Monster Jeep, the swing up and into the driver’s seat, the rumble to life, and the ever so distinctive entrance into traffic, I started to notice that shifting was becoming increasingly difficult. “Turn the car off, and it will slide right into gear,” ... Read More »
I think it was the minivan. Yes! It was the evil minivan! Bastard! Somewhere along the way, when you lower yourself remove any self-esteem from your being agree to drive a minivan, the joy of driving dis-inhabits your body. Since the minivan, I have had a series of cars that have been fine. Fine? FINE? What? Since when was driving about ... Read More »
While I definitely believe in drinking what makes you happy (i.e., if you want a pinot grigio with your steak – go for it), I find that I am usually a seasonal drinker. Guinness, red wine and brown liquor in the cooler months (which, in the North Country, happen to be about half the year). White wine, rosés and clear alcohol ... Read More »
The return to school for me is also a return to the kitchen. Summer starts great, but I tend to lose steam after things heat up, preferring whatever for a meal. How tepid! Fall puts us back on a regular schedule, and that includes more regular visits to the grocery store, and predictable times to return home at the end ... Read More »
I recently discovered cookie butter from Trader Joe’s. That’s right. Cookie butter. They suggest it being delicious on a number of things (hello waffles!) but I find that it’s fabulous off a spoon while standing in-front of the fridge at 2 a.m. Fortunately, my roommate doesn’t like it, thus leaving more for me. On closer examination of that previous sentence (and ... Read More »
We have undergone a strange sort of transition in our home over the past week and a half, and ours has been a bit different than what we have seen in friends and acquaintances. The spouse of my colleague wrote a terrific piece in the Albany Times Union about sending their daughter off to college. (Click here to read the ... Read More »
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