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December 18, 2007
FOR MORE INFORMATION, contact Susie Quick
Honest Farm, (859) 846-4155; cell: (859) 533-0085.

Cookbook author Susie Quick and Honest Farm ‘Pure Kentucky’ Market offers Wellness Cooking classes to help you make your resolution for a healthier life come true.

Every New Year’s Eve I have a tradition. I sit down with a note pad and list the goals I have for the next year. Putting my thoughts to paper helps me focus on what’s important to me. It’s always interesting to look back on the last year and see how many items I can check off. I’m pretty happy if I can check off half my list.

Here’s an article I wrote today for the Washington Post site www.sprig.com.

It really makes me hungry for oysters, though the Hog Island folks on the West Coast say a storm forming may wipe out some of their stocks. Let’s hope that’s not the case for their wonderful farmed oysters. I highly recommend them if you’re planning a celebration any time soon. In addition, Hog Island makes a great mignonette sauce they call "Hog Wash" so make sure you order enough of that as well. (Might as well go hog wild.)

Like many cooks once freeze warnings arrive I turn the oven on for some serious baking. Invariably things never turn out right the first time I make them but then I get back in touch with my inner baker. That is, if she still exists. Lately I’m all about muffins. And specifically, cornmeal muffins.

I’m really luck to live close to a bona fide mill. Weisenberger Mills in Midway, KY is more like a living museum as the Weisenberger family has retained and maintained the mill’s original equipment from circa 1913. I love going there to visit and to pick up freshly milled flour and cornmeal, which is sometimes milled that very day. There’s no comparison to what you get in a store in terms of quality and freshness.