ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Clever ways to present homemade gifts
It’s a Wrap! By Janet Reynolds Some of the best holiday gifts are those that are handmade. If you’re looking for ideas, Holiday Food Gifts to Make!, a specialty publication featuring recipes and ideas...
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Me and My Miso By John Adamian/Life@Home People are funny about fermentation. They get a little squeamish about some fermented foods, even as most of us don’t blink at cheese, bread, chocolate and lots...
View ArticleONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Hostess gifts for every occasion
The Mostest for the Hostess by Brianna Snyder/Life@Home Not everyone is a good gift-giver. And picking out a gift for the host or hostess of a party can be its own special challenge, particularly if...
View ArticleTable@Home: A wonderful fruit to behold – and eat
Pairs of Pears By Caroline Barrett/Life@Home Pears have great personality. Each has its own look: leaning this way or that, bright green, pale yellow or deep scarlet red. No matter the color or size,...
View ArticleThe Vineyard: Hello Cleveland! Here come the wines that rock!
We Are Not Worthy Story and Photo By Alistair Highet/Life@Home Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd and sync it up with The Wizard of Oz movie and lie on your back in a dark room, that the music is...
View ArticleArtisan: Giving tired furniture new life
Recycled Fun By Cari Scribner/Life@Home Sarah Trop sees treasures in other people’s trash. Gathered from tag and yard sales, and even friends ready to send items to the junk lot, Trop recycles older...
View Article@Home: Settling down in North Greenbush
Switching it Up by Bryanna Snyder/Life@Home Before moving into their newest home, John and Kathy Bourdeau got rid of everything they had. “We bought all new furniture,” Kathy says. “We hadn’t done...
View ArticleChef@Home: Chef Zach Welton returns to the family homestead
Home Sweet Home By Steve Barnes/Life@Home The young chef Zach Welton is the fourth generation of his family to live in the Voorheesville house built by his great-grandparents in 1954. It was the...
View ArticleChef@Home: Chef Zach Welton’s recipes
Online Exclusive: Smoked Trout with Red Quinoa, Baby Grape Mostarda and Sunny-Side-Up Quail Egg For the trout: ingredients: 2 tablespoons kosher salt 2 teaspoons fresh ground white pepper 2 teaspoons...
View ArticleLocavore: Spice up your life with Mrs. Claus’ kitchen
Savor the Flavor By Cari Scribner/Life@Home Barbara Devlin of Ballston Spa wants people to “just say no” to boring chicken dinners. And she’s ready to supply the unique spice blends to make that...
View ArticleDesign Defined: New year, fresh colors
By Lucianna Samu/Life@Home The new year is always a time for resolutions and fresh starts. My own list of resolutions hasn’t changed much over the years and, in fact, I could easily reprise a list of...
View Article10 Ways to Use: A single sock
By Melissa Fiorenza/Life@Home After weeks of wondering if an MIA sock will suddenly turn up and finally accepting that it has disappeared indefinitely into the washing machine abyss, what do you do...
View ArticleClean Living: Scary things we forget to clean
What Lies Beneath By Brianna Snyder/Life@Home We all know the toilet needs to be cleaned regularly. We know the floors need to be swept. And when we neglect these chores, the consequences are evident:...
View ArticleDesign Classics: Going Mobil
By Kim Messenger/Life@Home God I hate filing cabinets. I’m surrounded by them and they terrify me. I have no idea what is in them and I don’t want to know. I put my tax documents in there someplace,...
View ArticleHouse Blend: Meditation and your home
by Merci Miglino/Life@Home I am what you might call a moderate meditator. Some months I meditate twice a day, and then I’ll lose my OM and not sit quietly and reflect inward for weeks at a time. But no...
View ArticleVineyard: Alchemy in Valpolicella
By Alistair Highet/Life@Home You can be excused for ducking Valpolicella when you see bottles of it on the shelves. Bulk wines from this region near Verona, east of Lake Garda in the north of Italy,...
View ArticleTable@Home: Thai noodle warm-up
Creature Comfort By Caroline Barrett/Life@Home “It’s you!” Elliot jumped up from his chair and pointed a finger at me. “I knew it was you!” This yelling startled me from my dreamy gaze out our back...
View ArticleFive Things: Alain Kaloyeros
Five Things I Can’t Live Without By Suzanne Kawola/Life@Home Alain Kaloyeros, Vice President and CEO, College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering As a boy, Alain Kaloyeros was fascinated with science...
View ArticleChef@Home: Chef Ken Kehn prefers knives to calculators
Prime Time By Steve Barnes/Life@Home When Ken Kehn was in high school and worked for a pizza chain, his duties included throwing gift certificates and coupons to arena-football fans at the Times Union...
View ArticleChef@Home: Chef Ken Kehn’s recipes
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Fall Fennel, Arugula and Apple Salad ingredients: 8 ounces baby arugula 1 fennel bulb, cored and shaved thin on a mandolin or fine julienned 1 Granny Smith apple, julienned 2 ounces...
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