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Recipe of the Week (April 24-30, 2011): Taco Dip
This weeks’ recipe comes to me by way of my sister, Wanda. She stumbled upon this Taco Dip recipe years ago and it is by far the best taco dip I’ve ever tasted. It works great for parties (I made it...
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Recipe of the Week (May 8-14, 2011): Chicken Casserole
My beautiful mom, Helene Streeter Today is Mother’s Day. In the physical sense, I lost my beloved mom, Helene Streeter, in 2007 just three days after my 44th birthday. However, I shall always hold my...
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Food Allergies . . . What Does It Mean For Me?
Cow . . . a culprit About a month ago I received a bit of news that I have been desperately attempting to ignore, much to my detriment. While at my very core, I am essentially your average...
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Recipe of the Week (June 12-18, 2011): Mini Stuffed Peppers
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve contributed to the worthiness of my own blog by posting a recipe of the week. There are a litany of excuses that I could use for this absence, including 1) the dog ate...
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When All Else Fails, There’s Pizza . . . Sometimes
Pizza. Yum. ‘Nuff said. Today, my husband and I made a valiant attempt to have lunch at a small European-styled café not far from our house. This café—whose proprietor is currently featured in local...
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From Cheese to Gourmet Foods, Mint Leaves the Perfect Taste in Your Mouth
Nearly everywhere in small town America, you’ll find a thoroughfare named “Main Street”. Whether it’s a well-worn path that has seen better days or a brand spankin’ new road where the microscopic...
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Today’s Foodism: Two Slices of Bread and Fillings Equal a Full Life
“Life is like a sandwich – the more you add to it, the better it becomes.” ~Anonymous It’s portable … it’s easy to maneuver … it’s a handheld wonder … it’s one of the culinary world’s greatest...
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Today’s Foodism: Confessions of a Nachoholic
“Few things in life are as edibly satisfying as a large plate of nachos to one who is a pure, unadulterated lover of nachos. My name is Valerie and I am a nachoholic.” ~Valerie Albarda My dining...
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Today’s Foodism: An Homage to Fromage
A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naïve, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk’s leap towards immortality. ~Clifton Fadiman My name is Valerie and I’m a turophile …...
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Welkom Bij De Kaasboer: Kaasboerderij De Annahoeve – Cheese Farmer in...
Welkom bij de kaasboer! (Dutch to English translation: Welcome to the cheese farm.) A little over three years ago, I married the most wonderful man any woman could get her slender, delicate hands on....
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Today’s Foodism: My Culinary Birthday Wish
Man cannot live by bread alone; somewhere in the mix there should also be crabs, cheese and bacon for good measure. ~Valerie Albarda Blue. Alaskan King. Dungeness. Stone. Jonah. Rock. Peekytoe. I am a...
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Today’s Foodism: It Ain’t Easy Being Cheesy
What…no cheese? How can there not be a cheese offering with dessert? I would choose a medley of lovely cheeses—from soft to crumbly, dense to smooth, stringy to supple, funky to aromatic—over a...
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It’s All About The Cheese: The Connecticut Cheese Festival (Coventry, CT)
Got cheese? If you plan to be at the Coventry Regional Farmers’ Market in Coventry, CT on October 13, then you’ll be up to your ears in cheese! If you are a lover of fromage, then you don’t want to...
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Five Cheese Cutting Boards That Are Far From Cheesy
[This article was originally featured in Woman Around Town, 8/12/13] Admit it: we all love cheese. Even those who are unfortunate enough to suffer from the malady of lactose intolerance still have a...
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Meatless Monday Recipe for 12/2/13: Spinach and Cheese Stuffed Manicotti
Happy post-Thanksgiving! I hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable holiday, feasted like a king (or queen) and spent time with loved ones (or your sworn enemy … doesn’t matter since, I’m sure, a great...
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Today’s Foodism: As American As . . . Really?
Kiss but don’t squeeze—my name isn’t Charmin, and I’ve never tried apple pie with cheese. As much as I adore cheese, this sounds bloody awful. A la Mode, I can do. A la fromage? Uh, no thank you. What...
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Today’s Foodism: It’s Just Not Living Without It
You can travel to exotic locales and touch down on the soil of lands that many only dream about. Yours is the life by which others live vicariously. Excitement abounds, and you are usually at the...
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Today’s Foodism: How Do You Take Your Wiener?
This mish mash of trimmings and fat that we have come to love, some more than others, has become a national staple. Oh lovely hot dog, wiener of our dreams, how do we adorn thee? Let me count the...
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Food Flash: Let’s Get’s Cheesy! April is National Grilled Cheese Month
For all your cheesy desires . . . So you say you’re a lover of cheese? A fromage fanatic? An aficionado of all things cheesy? Then you must love the month of April. April is National Grilled Cheese...
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Today’s Foodism: Cheese—It’s The Grown Up Thing To Do
While I can’t say that I particularly feel all grown up when I nosh on a hunk o’ cheese, it was a sort of matriculation for me from the path of milk (first plain white milk, then chocolate and from...
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