Dessert, Fall, Food

Mini Caramel Apples

One of my favorite foods has always been a perfect caramel apple. The crunch of a tart apple underneath velvety caramel, studded with crushed peanuts – it’s a flavor combination for the ages. Another thing I love is little food. Any entrée-sized portion that can be served in a single mouthful is always preferable to me for some strange reason – perhaps from my days playing with my girls’ dollhouses and having American Girl Doll-sized tea parties, when anything in […]

Entrees, Fall, Food, Gluten-Free

Vegetable Dill Soup with Poached Egg

I grew up on a grape farm in northeastern Ohio.  It was an idyllic place with orchards and vineyards, green woods to play in, and a fishing pond ringed with wild roses.  We lived on the farm with my grandmother until I was five, while my parents saved up to build their own house down the road.  My grandmother used to make this soup whenever we had fresh dill in the garden.   It was her variation on potato soup, which […]