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Can you bake a cherry pie?

March 7, 2009

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I cannot bake a decent cherry pie.  Fortunately Antrim County is full of people who can, and as soon as I find one of them who needs a job of writing done, my life will be perfect.  Meanwhile . . . Last Saturday Friske Orchards in Atwood held its 6th Annual Cherry Recipe contest.  This […]

And now a word about . . . Cherries! Also pizza, a tiny chapel, and a red red barn.

February 13, 2009

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I’ve lollygagged around far too long, and this week’s posts are lamentably short on new material. I can tell you’re bored. You’re back to looking at the milk hauler in the ditch and writing me comments about muskies. Our two days of spring turned back to winter. Daugherty’s castle collapsed. What to do? National Cherry […]

Seven-minute frosting and blue skies

January 9, 2009

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My mother made wonderful birthday cakes.  My favorite was a chocolate layer cake iced with seven-minute frosting and drizzled with bittersweet chocolate.  This concoction made decorative fluffy peaks on top of the cake.  The next day a crust would form.  I loved that crust.  The other day I was reminded of all this when we had brilliant sun, blue skies, […]

Chip butties, fishing shanties and other perils of a common language

January 7, 2009

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It all began with Carol Park’s famous recipe for scalloped pineapple, posted on Getting a good start.  That elicited a chain of comments filled with more recipes, British-to-American translations, and general hilarity.  I concluded that we could probably make a good thing out of an international table of equivalents for common foods.  For example:

Getting a good start

January 1, 2009

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Since I spent way too much time yesterday shopping at the Annual Pajama Sale in Elk Rapids, there was a lot to do for the New Year Open House at the Writing Studio and Bait Shop, and some of it wasn’t done by the appointed time.  Wendi Wooten to the rescue.  She arrived first, bearing […]

Katy helps us keep vampires at bay. Wait, wait – do we want them at Bay? We are at Bay!

June 28, 2008

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This Letter from Katy (my comments in green): Hi Gerry,        Attached is a photo of garlic scapes from this week’s share from Providence Farm.  Last year was my first ever encounter with this exotic botanical creature.  We made a potent flavorful garlic pesto from them, froze some in ice cube trays and use it to […]

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