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Chocolate Cream Cheese Cupcakes

Chocolate Cream Cheese Cupcakes

Though Julie Chiou of Table for Two made these rich cupcakes to celebrate her 25th birthday, they would fit right in to our celebration of chocolate that's leading right up to Valentine's Day. They're filled with a sweet cream cheese concoction that is a nice foil to the decadent chocolate, just like the perfect romantic partnership.  Read more

Local Food Trends: Bucking Stereotypes

Local apples

Last summer, during a farm tour, one of our guests, a pre-teen boy, started talking about how great our breakfast must be. He waxed poetic about the bacon, eggs, sausage, and toast we must eat at the crack of dawn every morning.  Read more >

Why We Raise Our Own Meat

Calf

The more I learned about the way meat animals are raised here in the US, the less I liked it. Upon realizing the way animals are treated - raised in close quarters with tails or beaks cut off, unable to turn around, fed a constant stream of antibiotics and growth hormones, subsisting on diets that they did not evolve to eat - I knew I couldn’t support the industrial meat production system.  Read more >

Buffalo Chicken Cupcakes

Buffalo Chicken Cupcakes

I'm as big a fan of Buffalo wings as the next girl, and have been known to eat my more-than-fair share when given the opportunity, but Buffalo chicken cupcakes? I'll admit I was skeptical. But these aren't dessert cupcakes—like the wings that inspired them, they're an appetizer dish that is certain to blow the minds of anyone at your Big Game party. I could think of no better recipe with which to wrap up our Big Game Eats celebration!  Read more