Chez Popine

  I'm always in the market for fresh appetizer options to stave off food boredom, but some bear repeating. Here are three likely suspect...

Conventional garden wisdom is that you shouldn't do a heavy harvest of rhubarb after mid-July-ish, and many people mark the cut-off poin...

My lone cucumber plant is verging on yielding fodder for tiny pickles, but Minnesota growers are ahead of me so there are plenty at farmers ...

Is there anything better than a fresh loaf of yeast bread out of the oven? Possibly not. But woman does not live by yeast bread alone, and q...

Halloumi croutons are a nice touch. Many of our local crabapple trees are in full bloom, signaling a seasonal shift. The early blooming vari...

  What the L? This morning I opened up a new box of Lipton tea, only to be confronted by tea bags that now sport a white L reversed on a red...

  OK, I'm not sure which ones count as fancy. Maybe the ones with fried halloumi cheese crumbles or frizzled onions, which seemed like p...