Our pasta bowl is a little boring, perhaps some new shapes?

This week, we enjoyed a little rain, a little sun, and definite hints of autumn in the air, including one quite chilly night where it dipped into the 50s. My crabapples are falling, and there is the lightest touch of color coming on the leaves around here. Colder areas and the hills and mountains of…

A Spring Treat: Homemade Chive Pasta with Smoked Salmon and Greens

The ice is out of Joe’s Pond! That means spring is really here in Vermont.  There are signs of spring everywhere! Flowers are starting to bloom, the birds have all returned, including the Lake Champlain seagulls that spend a week or so feasting on bugs in the hayfields after snow melt. Now we can declare…