The 2010 Vermont Life Wine and Harvest Festival

On a beautiful Fall day, we visited the 3rd annual Vermont Life Wine and Harvest Festival.  Here are some pictures and impressions of the day and this very enjoyable event, which you might want to visit next year!

Crumble-Topped Apple and Currant Tart

Fall Favorite.  A crumble-topped apple and currant tart, flavored with crystallized ginger and Calvados, in an almond cookie crust. 

Acorn Squash Bisque and Flan

When you have roasted enough acorn squash with maple syrup, and are ready for a couple of new ideas, try these: acorn bisque and flan.

Grange Favorites: Pattypan Pie

How an overgrown pattypan found happiness.

Autumn Vegetable Cobbler with Cheddar Biscuit Crust

Welcome Autumn with a savory cobbler combining roasted Summer and Fall vegetables, under a Cheddar biscuit crust.

Apple-Pear Brioche Cobbler

This apple and pear cobbler is a little more sophisticated, due to a light, cardamom-scented brioche crust.

Maple Cornbread

The last sweet corn of the summer gets a great sendoff: maple corn bread is a wonderful and warming September dish.

Buckwheat Galettes (Galettes de Sarrasin)

Thin savory buckwheat crepes, filled with homemade Gruyere, Vermont ham and fresh scallions from the garden.  Definitely one of the best things I brought back from Quebec.

Harvest, part 1

First, Tomatoes.

Apple Cinnamon Breakfast Cake

Here is a delicate, delicious breakfast cake using the first Vermont apples of the season.  

Ultimate Chocolate Zucchini Cake

Intensely chocolate, moist and richly delicious, you'd never know that this is a zucchini cake.