If you turn right outside the Visitors Center you’ll walk right into the Fuchsia Garden. Dozens of enormous hardy fuchsias grow there on the hillsid . Some are 6 to 7 foot high. Since we haven’t had any frost around the area fuchsias are still in full […]
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Tasty Tuesday … German Potato Pancakes with homemade Apple Sauce
Growing up, Fridays generally meant potato pancakes for lunch. My mom sure could make delicious “Kartoffelpuffer”, or “Pflinsen”,as they were known in our dialect. Hey, try to quickly say that five times in a row! 😉 By the time we’d get home from school, she had […]
Tasty Tuesday … Gabi’s Homemade Quince Liqueur
Quince is a bit like the ugly duckling in Hans Christian Anderson’s fairy tale. Not very pretty to look at, covered with a peach-like fuzz and inedible raw. The uncooked flesh is very hard and astringent. But all this ugliness more than makes up for […]
in cahoots with muddy boots 