Food

A son summons his love of quesadillas

My son was scrambling around the kitchen, making chicken quesadillas. He wanted this to be a joint effort, but I had errands to do and really looked forward to taking my time, putt-putting through …

Greens and beans a winner

I became obsessed with making greens and beans after hearing about it in June. Carl Fadale and his wife make the ethnic food at St. Anthony’s Festival and that’s on the menu. I saw …

Seven Valleys Food Rescue opens new location

Seven Valleys Food Rescue opened the doors Tuesday to its storage and distribution center on Homer Avenue in Cortland to show supporters and community leaders the progress made to date. The …

A happy place: The kitchen

I was in the kitchen with my husband’s daughter, Rachel, and we were cooking a Father’s Day meal for her dad. She was sautéing green peppers, onions and mushrooms for a steak I …

Get your jam on

If strawberries are your jam, you have to act fast. The season for strawberries has been short.

Where green begets green(backs)

Carla Plunkett kept a sweatshirt on Saturday as an unseasonably cold day chilled the Cortland City Farmers Market. The chill kept customers away, Plunkett said – in fact, other vendors left early, too. But it was only the second Saturday this season the market was open at a new location, in front of Grace and Holy Spirit Episcopal Church on Court Street. She expected the sales, like the season, will warm up.

Surf & turf hits the mark

Last week I made surf and turf for my son’s birthday. Mike has inherited his grandparents’ love of seafood. We grew up on Long Island and were boaters on the Great South Bay. We …

Cornell sauce does the trick

I swore off chicken a couple of months ago, after making chicken quesedillas for company and, as usual, the chicken took forever to cook. I was paranoid I’d cross-contaminate the other …

Out of propane?

My husband bought pork steaks the other day. I have no clue how to cook them. Why pork steaks and not pork chops? They look like pork chops but are flatter, wider and have the bone in them. …

Pasta & veggies, simple and tasty

I watched my friend prepare a pasta and vegetable dish one night that was out of this world. Martha Beck is a foodie who’s done it all in the kitchen. She doesn’t think anything of …

Fried fish hearkens back to childhood

My mother used to fry breaded flounder in an electric frying pan and it was so delicious. We lived on Long Island and everyone in the family, except for me, was a big fish eater. My two brothers …

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