This is Marie, contributing an article about a family recipe that resembles nothing I’ve ever seen anywhere else. My great-grandfather Tony LaFreniere, who was French-Canadian, invented it, as the story goes. He’d spend all day on Thanksgiving working on it, puttering about while the rest of the feast was being prepared. I don’t need to take nearly that kind of time so either that process is being exaggerated slightly, or he took more time that necessary on purpose. Continue reading “Grandpa Tony’s Dressing” →

This is Marie, contributing a recipe that I chose because it seemed so much in line with the season – pork chops and apples. Actually, it was just as much because a) we have a bunch of apples lying around because my boy, who had been going through an apple or two a day so I’d stocked up, stopped wanting to eat them promptly thereafter; also, the previous week I reorganized my freezer while looking unsuccessfully for some pork tenderloin steaks I was sure were in there and set me thinking about how much I wanted them anyway. So I browsed through Google, finding a nice mustardy recipe that looked like my husband’s kind of thing, and carried on. Continue reading “Mustard Pork Steak With Apples” →