When you visit, as I had a number of visitors today asking about Concord grapes, please visit the farm stands and look at what else is fresh that you can cook today or take home.
Some of my best childhood memories are there, at a creek, a farm market, a local dairy or picking grapes, blueberries and strawberries.
Dinners with family, extended family holidays, and always hanging out with the neighbors were always welcome and exciting. I think that’s why I wanted to learn how to cook, to please and always have a sense of family around me.
The enchanted forest and the road to the dump, the guy who came and took away our large furniture, only for Dad to find it all at his home. Our neighbors with countless stray animals and a dog that came to us for a week at a time.
The horse that threw me, brownies and girl scouts, halloween in the populated part of town (couldn’t eat anything until my parents, the next day, went through everything). Trick or Treat for UNICEF one year. No-one bought into it with quarters. I think I stuffed the box with some of my baby-sitting money).
Later on I worked summers in college and also worked on a couple of political campaigns. I have family there. My heart is there for the people I grew up with, but I don’t think our lives will go there unless it’s for retirement.
It is a place I have such ties to, and love to visit and encourage others to do so. Cheers, Dee
Cooking with Dee 