Cooking a Fresh Turkey

By recipesNovember 7, 2015April 21, 2023 Featured, Holiday, Main-Dishes, Recipes, Seasonal

Never cooked a fresh turkey before? Never fear! Here’s our advice.

KITCHEN COPY:FRESH CRANBERRIES

By chucksmithNovember 4, 2015April 21, 2023 Berries, Cooking Methods, Featured, Holiday, Kitchen Copy, Locally Grown, Recipes, Seasonal berries, breakfast, cranberries, gluten-free, local ingredients, locally grown produce, recipes

I’ve been told that men tend to gain a lot of weight in their thirties. I keep hoping that will happen to me. I could stand to gain a pound or two. But all I’ve gotten so far is lactose intolerance, and a gluten allergy. I reluctantly confess this. It was only recently that I was a…

Freshen Up! Add Natural Fragrance to Your Home This Fall

By rebeccatalbotOctober 29, 2015October 29, 2015 Crafts, Featured, Gifts from the Kitchen, Holiday all natural, DIY projects, herbs, natural fragrance, spices

As a Wolff’s Apple House customer, you take care to make healthy, conscientious choices. You know where your food comes from, and that it usually comes from within 50 miles of our store. You know that if you ask, someone at Wolff’s will be able to tell you about the farmer. But as you think about…

KITCHEN COPY: EASILY ELEGANT LEEKS

By chucksmithMarch 25, 2015April 21, 2023 Appetizers, Featured, Holiday, Recipes, Root Vegetables, Seasonal beets, Easter, leek recipe, winter produce

Leeks have come a long way in my life since 2001. It’s been an uphill battle for this once neglected ingredient. Unlike onions and garlic, the leek is more intimidating. It seems almost alien when pulled from a grocery bag and placed on a cutting-board at home. I remember a cashier quizzically examining a bunch of…

A Simple Valentine’s Meal: Making Your Own Picnic at Home

By rebeccatalbotFebruary 12, 2015November 2, 2017 Featured, Holiday, Recipes

It’s a Valentine’s Day dilemma: restaurants are packed to the max, and yet not going out for a meal means that somebody is going to have to do a lot of work in the kitchen to prepare a special meal. As city dwellers, my husband and I have learned to avoid restaurants on Valentine’s Day, but we’ve solved…

Talking in the Language of Flowers

By JenniferHetrickFebruary 5, 2015February 5, 2015 Featured, Gardening Advice: Flowers, Holiday

Speaking is often something done without words, though we sometimes don’t realize it. The same can be said for the Victorian language of flowers, which lets us communicate to those in our lives through something as simple as flowers we hand to someone we care about. Symbolic meanings of flowers are said to date back…

Repurposing Thanksgiving Leftovers and Searching for the Perfect Fresh Cut Christmas Tree

By rachelvanduzerNovember 25, 2014April 21, 2023 Apples, Featured, Holiday, Main-Dishes, Recipes, Sandwiches

Every Black Friday, my husband’s family had the tradition of going Christmas tree shopping. We’d wake up at a reasonable hour (reasonable, that is, for Black Friday), mosey over to the Christmas tree farm together and each pick out that perfect tree for our family’s Christmas décor. Then afterward, we’d enjoy a delicious lunch of…

Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Maple-Bacon Vinaigrette

By rebeccatalbotNovember 13, 2014April 21, 2023 Featured, Holiday, Recipes, Root Vegetables, Sides

I don’t remember liking sweet potatoes until one year when I was in middle school. Middle school is all about reinventing yourself, right? It’s about wearing layers of friendship bracelets, trying on your friends’ glasses to see how you look in them, getting that atrocious haircut you’d hoped would rocket you to popularity. And so…

Celebrating Apple Season (Part 2)

By rebeccatalbotSeptember 25, 2014September 26, 2014 Apples, Cooking Methods, Featured, Gifts from the Kitchen, Holiday, Seasonal, Vendors

Apple season means apple cider season, apple fritter season, and of course apple pie season. For aspiring bakers, apple pie season can be a frustrating time indeed. I’ve been known to put my hands on my hips and glare at a pie crust that just won’t stop sticking to the counter and ripping. And I…

New Year’s Eve Recipes: Roasted Red Pepper Dip & Two Herb-Infused Cocktails

By JenniferHetrickDecember 26, 2013April 21, 2023 Beverages, Featured, Holiday, Recipes cocktails

Spicy appetizers and herb-savvy drinks for jazzing your way into the New Year are right at your fingertips with a few of Phoebe Canakis’ New Year’s Eve recipes. Canakis is the name behind Phoebe’s Pure Food, where she celebrates local and healthy eats through her blog, magazine, and online pantry as well as new blogging…

Lingering over Christmas Appetizers

By rebeccatalbotDecember 19, 2013April 21, 2023 Appetizers, Featured, Holiday, Recipes

During the Christmas season, we enjoy the presence of people we love. Talking, laughing, listening, enjoying comfortable silences–all of this is what it means to enjoy each others’ presence at Christmastime. It is a time to rest, relax, and linger over laughter, conversation, and appetizers. That means, of course, that for some of the people…

Christmas Gifts from the Kitchen

By rebeccatalbotDecember 12, 2013November 2, 2017 Featured, Gifts from the Kitchen, Holiday, Recipes

One of the best Christmas presents I have ever received was a cardboard box full of food: maple cured bacon and three different kinds of jam made from apples and berries grown in a backyard garden. My husband and I were away from our families for the holiday, and waking up and frying that bacon—the…

Deck Those Halls: The Charm of Great Local Décor

By JenniferHetrickDecember 5, 2013April 21, 2023 Cooking Methods, Featured, Holiday, Locally Grown, Recipes, Seasonal

Greenery known so well in December is ready to become cozily arranged local decor in your home. Wolff’s Apple House can help with that, especially if you’re looking for Christmas trees with the best quality and Pennsylvania-growing in the history of their trunks and needles. Christmas trees at Wolff’s are sourced from Hill Farms in…

Wolff Family Apple Sage Stuffing

By recipesNovember 27, 2013April 21, 2023 Apples, Featured, Holiday, Recipes

The Wolff family has many favorite recipes and most of them they have graciously shared right here on their website. When I began searching for a stuffing recipe for this Thanksgiving, Wolff’s trusted recipe collection was the first place I looked. And since I’m going to be spending a good amount of time in the…

Splendid Thanksgiving Sides: New Twists and Old Traditions

By rebeccatalbotNovember 21, 2013December 28, 2019 Featured, Holiday, Recipes, Root Vegetables, Seasonal herbs, potatoes, side dish, sweet potatoes, Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is a day when many pots are bubbling on the stove, cutting boards are strewn across counter tops, the fragrance of herbs lingers on the cook’s hands, and a tasting spoon always produces delicious samples. This creative chaos itself is an occasion for gratitude. As we boil, chop, grate, and mash, we partake in…

Repurposing Pumpkins and Delighting in Slices of Pumpkin Roll

By JenniferHetrickOctober 31, 2013April 21, 2023 Crafts, Featured, Holiday, Locally Grown, Recipes, Seasonal, Winter Squash

Pumpkins are wonderfully alluring in autumn, but repurposing makes them interesting on a whole other level aside from how we often look at them as Jack-O-Lantern-bound or warmly baked into pie, bread or pumpkin roll (but we’ll let the anticipation of palate-worthy bites of pumpkin roll simmer for a little while.) For those who have…

Unique Ideas for Carving and Decorating Pumpkins

By JenniferHetrickOctober 17, 2013October 10, 2018 Cooking Methods, Crafts, Featured, Holiday, Locally Grown, Recipes, Seasonal

The pumpkin supply is bursting from all corners of Wolff’s Apple House. Roswell Henderson, the assistant manager for Frecon Farms in Boyertown, Berks County, has a great affinity for turning pumpkins into the unexpected and amusingly surprising outside of homes. “Pretty much every other customer is coming in to buy pumpkins or ask questions about…

Fresh Indian Summer Salsa is Savvy in September

By JenniferHetrickSeptember 4, 2013April 21, 2023 Appetizers, Beverages, Cooking Methods, Featured, Hardy Vegetables, Holiday, Locally Grown, Peaches, Recipes, Seasonal, Summer Produce, Tomatoes

As a fitting segue in saying adieu to the heat of August while saying hello to September, a Fresh Indian Summer Salsa crafted from ingredients at Wolff’s Apple House is a great food-geared introduction to this autumn. The recipe, put together by Wolff’s marketing consultant, Rachel VanDuzer, incorporates not only tomatoes but peaches, corn and…

Labor Day Picnic Possibilities and Some Feisty Guacamole

By JenniferHetrickAugust 28, 2013April 21, 2023 Cooking Methods, Featured, Hardy Vegetables, Holiday, Locally Grown, Peaches, Prepared Foods, Recipes, Seasonal, Summer Produce, Tomatoes, Vendors

While Fran, Pete and Ashley Wolff work every Labor Day, they’re grateful for the opportunity to help people appreciate their goodbye to summer with great foods and ideas for good spots for picnics. And they like that they close at 4 p.m., too, so they can get together with the rest of their family as…

Berry-Topped Pavlova

By JenniferHetrickJune 27, 2013April 21, 2023 Berries, Cooking Methods, Desserts, Featured, Holiday, Locally Grown, Recipes, Seasonal, Summer Produce

Phoebe Canakis’ Berry Topped-Pavlova is a perfectly red, white and blue dessert to suit July 4th celebrations. Canakis lives in Lancaster County and is the food-mind behind inspiring seasonally chic, seductively wholesome, garden-to-plate eats through her blogs, magazine, catering and pure food pantry efforts. Her recently released online-based Phoebe’s Pure Food Magazine is what she…