Beef Pot Roast with Winter Root Vegetables

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Beef pot roast – classic comfort food – offers that lovely warmth one needs most during the darkest days of winter.  A good beef pot roast satisfies and nourishes on an almost primal level.  The savory, fork-tender beef falls apart with gentle ease while winter root vegetables (carrots, parsnips and turnips) swim in a combination [...]

Foodbuzz 24 24 24: Cookery Made Plain & Easy – An 18th Century Supper

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“I Believe I have attempted a branch of Cookery, which nobody has yet though worth their while to write upon … If I have not wrote in the high polite style, I hope I shall be forgiven ; for my intention is to instruct the lower sort, and therefore must treat them in their own [...]

The Sunday Farmers Market Table

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Sunday is market day and it starts very, very early.   My husband rises at about 5:30, makes breakfast and packs up his truck.   I wake a little later, get our child ready for the day and pack my car and we head down to town together.   From there, we unpack the vehicles [...]

Braised Turnips with Parsley

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The humble turnip.   It’s a much loathed vegetable.   Yet, like other underdogs of the vegetable world, it is deeply rich in nutrients.   Turnips are an especially good source of Vitamin C, manganese, copper and phosphorus and also contain good amounts of B vitamins. An added benefit of turnips is that they are [...]