Since both Halloween and National Caramel Apple Day are coming up this week (October 31^st) it seemed only natural when this delicious galette popped out of the oven and promptly announced its presence by filling the entire house with its sweet apple pie aroma! The homemade whole wheat sugar crust proved a hearty foundation to hold up the seasonally ripe local apples, while the sweet caramel sauce tied everything together while conjuring up fond memories of dipping caramel apples, just with less mess; Served with Angry Orchard’s Crisp Apple Cider to complement the fresh, firm, fall apples.

Learned a lot, and had fun drinking along with everyone at this year’s GABF. Congratulations to all the winners and the virtual festival presenters! I enjoyed drinking the beers along with the live presentations and trying their recommended beer and food pairings by cooking the festival recipes ahead of time. Very interesting!

Now that the summer heat is just giving way to the cool of autumn, the temperature outside is conducive to some much needed barbecue time. The most recent barbecue session resulted in this delicious pulled pork sandwich: BBQ pulled pork flavored with a sweet homemade peach and blackberry barbecue sauce, homegrown lettuce, all sandwiched in-between home baked whole wheat buns; Served with a generous portion of crisp, homemade sweet potato chips, Allagash Brewing’s Farm to Face, and Terrapin Brewing’s Maggie’s Blackberry Cobbler, to resonate with the fruit forward flavors in the BBQ sauce.

Corn & Crab Pasta for National Noodle Day