On today’s show we have Leslie Land on the sensuous delights of vegetables from the cold cellar, Alex Tuller on Christmas ham leftovers exceptionally paired with farro and white Carpathian mushrooms (no, those aren’t local), Dean Temple reads John Keats as well as his own personal new year’s wishes, and we have a very brief [...]
As we enter 2006, Virtual Hudson Valley wishes you
A year of cold colds and warm hots and clear definitions, straight answers and problems solved.
A year of powerful inspirations.
A year of ideas absorbed, digested, and reborn fresh with perspective.
A year of debate.
A year of compromise.
A year of universal respect for the ideas of others.
A year’s rest [...]
“Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art–”
Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art–
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like Nature’s patient sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask
Of snow upon the [...]
An alternative to the usual risotto dish and very delicious. This uses left overs from the rather large Christmas Roast Pork and turkey stock thanks to Thanksgiving.
Drink with a nice light red wine.
Serves 4 generously
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
1/4 cup onion, diced
3 garlic cloves, chopped
1 tsp fresh sage chopped
Salt
1/4 cup dried porcini, rinsed and [...]
On today’s show we have Leslie Land on the tradition of the holiday tree, Alex Tuller broils up some apples in a maple bourbon sauce, Dean Temple reads Wurbo the Baby Pine Tree by Viv Carbuncle, and we have the Hudson Valley Events Calendar from Ilana Papele.
Please note, our next show will be December 29, [...]
(As read and prepared by Alex Tuller for the December 15, 2005 podcast)
I always have bourbon, apples and maple syrup in my house, and so this is an emergency dessert that is very much seasonal for this time of year.
4 cooking apples peeled, cored and cut into quarters
1/8 c lemon juice
4 T sugar
3 T butter
1/3 [...]
Winter is here, brrr it’s cold. That can only mean one thing – cookies. On today’s show we Leslie Land discusses poinsettia smarts and cookie know how, Carola Kittredge touches on some personal and hilarious Hudson Valley history with a segment on John Watts de Peyster, Alex Tuller makes her mom’s special thimble cookies, and [...]
Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked [...]
(As read and prepared by Alex Tuller for the December 8, 2005 podcast)
Christmas is the only time I make these cookies, because that is when my mother made these. They are pretty and festive and really buttery.
3/4 lb butter
1 c sugar
3 egg yolks
3 to 3-1/2 cups flour
1 tsp vanilla
mint and currant jelly
Heat oven to [...]
We are back after our last week’s short vacation (Careyes, Mexico, and yes it was amazing). On today’s show we have Leslie Land on poison ivy and apple sauce, Alex Tuller takes turkey leftovers and makes that pot pie we wait for all year long, and Dean Temple joins Oscar Wilde peaking through the window [...]