We will start the morning as usual with our specialty coffees (iced and hot), plus a selection of fresh croissants and gluten-free pastries, as well as a limited breakfast menu. Starting at 10:30, we will begin serving our hearthside brunch: Tomato Garlic Chicken Salad over Barbers’ fresh greens Fresh-baked cornbread Homemade Pie GF & Prix […]
Archives for September 2017
Chronic Hope
It’s 4 am, and I’m alone with a field of crickets outside my window screens, two dogs, one pressure canner, and 35 quarts of tomato sauce. It’s the week before Labor Day. Since 2011, I have a thing about canning tomatoes before Labor Day. It seems like we’re all learning special names that make our […]
Pork Shoulder in the Slow Cooker (how easy can it get?)
All right, time to start back in with fall cooking. This is one of my favorite go-tos lately. It takes less than 5 minutes to prepare, requires no searing (unlike most slow cooker meat recipes) and yields delicious, browned, caramelized, fall-apart meat, with a splash of rich juice to pour over the top. The secret? […]