Pears

Meetings Sunday, March 24 Petoskey Duplicate Bridge Club meets at 1:30 p.m. on Sundays at 2144 Cemetery Road, Petoskey. All players welcome. Visit www.petoskeybridgeclub.com or call (231) 881-0829 for information. Monday, March 25 Boyne City Rotary...

When Paul DiGrazia, a successful Danbury obstetrician-gynecologist and owner of a successful vineyard in Brookfield, was about 45, he went through a version of a midlife crisis. "There has to be more to life than this," he recalls thinking. Red...

Years ago I happened to be at a Los Angeles food event where caterers were showing off their most celebrated dishes. I was struck by a platter of slightly wrinkled pears drizzled with ribbons of glossy red glaze. I had never considered cooking a pear...

Margaret and Louis Chatey are turning pears and apples from Ledyard and Middlefield into award-winning brandy in a barn off an Ashford country lane. Over in East Hartford, Adam von Gootkin is hunting for Connecticut corn he can transform into what he...

Births Twin girls, Braylee Marie Wyatt and Laken Ann Wyatt, were born to Micki Volkening and Blake Wyatt of Petoskey on Monday, Jan. 21, 2013, at Munson Medical Center in Traverse City. Braylee was born at 8:49 p.m.,weighed 5 pounds and was 18 1/2 inches...

ROASTED BOSC PEARS  Ingredients: 4 whole Bosc pears 1½ teaspoon extra virgin olive oil ¼ teaspoon Kosher salt ¿ teaspoon fresh ground pepper Procedure: - Preheat oven to 425°F. - Wash pears and cut them in half, lengthwise.  Pat dry. ...

Baked Brie Recipe by: Melissa Keister Ingredients: 1 package of brie, round (do not remove rind) 1 sheet of puff pastry dough, thawed Brown sugar (handful / 2 tablespoons) ¼ Raspberry preserves ¼ cup of pure maple syrup Cut up apples (red & green)...

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Tom Douglas To purchase a copy of the book: The Dahlia Bakery Cookbook: Sweetness in Seattle   “Worth the Effort” Puff Pastry Makes enough puff for six 4 1/2–inch squares Ingredients: 1/3 cup ice cold water, plus a few more...

Sometimes it can be difficult to think of winter, which begins on Dec. 22, as a salad season. After all, salads are so often associated with the fresh new growth of springtime. But, in fact, you can easily find so many delicious ingredients at this time...

Versatile. Nutritious. Sweet. The versatile sweet potato can show up from soup to nuts -- or at least in a nutty dessert -- during your Thanksgiving meal. For the soup, elegant Sweet Potato Chowder is one of 'scape restaurant chef Eric Kelly's signature...

When I was growing up, cranberries came in the form of a wobbly cylinder of jelly straight from the can, with ridged indentations on the side. Though cranberries were once strictly Thanksgiving fare, I now look forward to the tongue-tingling zing and...