Most popular food-centered American holidays and events are not vegetarian and vegan friendly. Backyard barbeques, Christmas dinners, and even the most famous feast of them all, Thanksgiving, feature meat as the main course. Luckily, there are many creative ways to make all the traditional Thanksgiving dishes vegan and vegetarian-friendly. Websites such as vegweb.com, vegkitchen.com or [...]
Cooked cabbage. When most people hear this phrase they cringe at the thought of an unpleasant smell and green slop on a dish. But there is one way to prepare cabbage that changed my mind about it forever. My grandmother calls the dish “verdesa” (pronounced “verds”) which translates roughly to “greens” in Italian. A slightly [...]
As soon as the weather starts to get cooler, I start to crave those warm, comfort foods that remind me of when I was young, and coming inside to a steaming dish after a day of playing in the snow. One of my favorites both to make and eat has got to be homemade macaroni [...]
One of the very best things about summertime is the availability of farm-fresh fruits and vegetables at your local grocery store and farmer’s market. There are even online shops such as Heldeberg Market (www.heldebergmarket.com/) that provide farm bios and extensive product descriptions while allowing you to have your purchases sent to any location in Albany [...]
If you didn’t know that July is National Ice Cream Month, chances are you aren’t alone. It’s a little known fact, influenced by the taste buds of a country of ice cream aficionados. In 1984, President Ronald Reagan put forth a proclamation that declared July as National Ice Cream Month, as well as July 15th [...]
It’s summertime, time to break out that grill and get your BBQ hat on. We’ve compiled some tasty grill ‘em up recipes for you, so grab some charcoal and get that grill ready. BBQ season is here!
I admit it. I’m not a lover of BBQ sauce, so when I first came across this dish, I [...]
Three years ago, North Country Public Radio set out to create a cookbook that would join people together throughout the Adirondacks. They decided that instead of the standard fare recipe book, they wanted to do something a little different, something of a more personal nature, a book that would incorporate food but at the same [...]
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