Jack’s Market, Hebron As I hopefully made clear last year, the results of the “Eastern Shore Tomato Tasting” are in no way definitive. Taste and quality can vary from year to year, day to day, and tomato to tomato. Why bother, then? For fun. This year I roped in some assistance from Kit Pollard, local…
Note: for a better at-home Baltimore Peach Cake Recipe click here Hoehns Bakery Baltimore Peach Cake “Every spring and summer, almost like clockwork, I receive multiple recipe requests for the Baltimore peach cake… Peach cake is one of those uniquely Baltimore things, like coddies, thatlive long in people’s memories. The true Baltimore peach cake is…
“A Spanish proverb says to make a good salad, four persons are necessary — A spendthrift, for oil; a miser, for vinegar; a barrister, for salt; and a madman to stir it up” – Tested Maryland Recipes Unless you’re a die-hard salad fan, you probably haven’t been thinking to yourself “hell yeah it’s Salad Season!” For…
In typical Maryland fashion, the bone-chilling cold ended one day and the very next day we were greeted with scorching sunshine. The “scorching sunshine” half of the year tends to leave me yearning for a crisp beverage at the end of my walk home. Ginger ale is a favorite and I’ve been flirting with the…
What does one do if they have too many tomatoes and no plans for an afternoon? Must be time to make a condiment. Catsup, Ketchup… most people think tomatoes when they think of ketchup. In truth, the Tomato is a newcomer to the ketchup game, with previous recipes involving anything from walnuts to mushrooms to…