Double-Chocolate Sourdough Bundt

Double-Chocolate Sourdough Bundt

We bake the vast majority of all the bread products we consume here, and especially love to make our own sourdough.  To maintain a healthy sourdough starter, it requires the barm is ‘fed’ regularly with fresh flour, and water, to keep the yeast culture...
Honey-Pecan Bars

Honey-Pecan Bars

The elves are always busy at Curbstone Valley this time of year, whipping up a flurry of tasty baked holiday treats! During the hectic days leading up to the holiday it’s always helpful to have a simple recipe, or two on hand, that can produce lots of bite-sized...
Pumpkin Gnocchi With Sage and Walnuts

Pumpkin Gnocchi With Sage and Walnuts

We seem to have an overabundance of heirloom winter squash to use up this fall.  We’ve already made a beautiful lasagna, and flavorful risotto with some of the squash, and no doubt the rest will find their way into an assortment of soups, ravioli, pizza, or puff...
Torta di Pere

Torta di Pere

A bounty of buttery-sweet pears is one of the true delights of the fall and winter months.  Although our own pear trees are still too young to be bearing fruit, our local area farmer’s markets are brimming with the first ripe heirloom pears of the season....
Tomatillo Salsa Verde

Tomatillo Salsa Verde

During late summer we focus our attention away from the garden, and toward storing some of the harvest for the winter months ahead.  We love tomatillos (toe-ma-tee-ohs), but until this spring we hadn’t grown our own here.  We don’t see them for sale very...
Zucchini Fritters

Zucchini Fritters

It’s late summer, and that time of year again where, despite losing some to the voles, we seem to have a persistent overabundance of garden-fresh summer squash. After making batches of our favorite Zucchini Orange Bread numerous times this summer, we decided it...