Category: Prepared Foods

Wolff’s vs. Grocery Store: How Do The Products Compare?
By Categories: Featured, Prepared Foods, Vendors

When I moved from Chicago to rural Pennsylvania, shopping in a traditional grocery store became my most depressing and frustrating errand.  So many options surrounded me, all of them choices between lesser evils. Organic and local products eluded me. And ethnic or specialty food? I have cried over the lack of hummus. I will admit it. Today, when I…

KITCHEN COPY:FLAVORFUL FINOCCHIONA
By Categories: Cooking Methods, Featured, Kitchen Copy, Photos, Prepared Foods, Recipes, What's New Tags: ,

On any given day Wolff’s buyer, Lisa McWaters, is in the process of introducing a new product onto the shelves. The process can take anywhere from a day, to several weeks. There is usually a trial period where Wolff’s employees get a chance to preview an item, or help determine whether it should be carried…

Soups and Prepared Foods: Go-To Grabs that Go Great around the Holidays
By Categories: Featured, Locally Grown, Prepared Foods, Seasonal

Soups and other prepared foods are something you can easily pick up at Wolff’s Apple House to suit colder-season temperatures as they make their way into chillier months. And these are also great around holidays, thankfully. Wolff’s own chef, Chuck Smith, reflects thoughtfully on the value of soups before and into winter. “Soups in general…

Getting into Fall Gardening and Decorating
By Categories: Apples, Beverages, Featured, Gardening Advice: Flowers, Locally Grown, Prepared Foods, Seasonal

The possibilities of fall gardening and decorating are now under way; the colors of autumn so iconic to the outside of homes as the weather cools down after summer beckon easily for the eyes at Wolff’s Apple House. Bloom-boasting hardy mums, asters, Montauk daisies, brightly cheerful pansies, cabbage, kale, hay bales, decorative corn stalks, gourds…

Labor Day Picnic Possibilities and Some Feisty Guacamole
By Categories: 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…

Crazy about Canning
By Categories: Berries, Cooking Methods, Featured, Locally Grown, Prepared Foods, Recipes, Seasonal, Summer Produce

The kitchen smarts and culinary lure of canning have seen quite a comeback in recent years—and with good reason. Not only is canning useful and resourceful, but it’s a rewarding opportunity to support your own chomp factor from home. And canning-dates with friends and family are just plain fun, too. Think berries: Wolff’s Apple House…

Behind the Scenes of Wolff’s Chef-Made Prepared Foods
By Categories: Farm-to-Table, Kitchen Copy, Prepared Foods

Since the summer of 2010, our chef Chuck Smith has been creating delectable new recipes for Wolff’s Apple House. He studied at Baltimore International College and apprenticed at Jeannier’s, a classic French restaurant in Baltimore. No stranger to the benefits of local and in-season produce, he has volunteered at an East Coast organic farm and…

Soup’s On: 4 Soup Recipes
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In my apartment’s tiny kitchen, the whole room warms up when a pot simmers on the stove top.   This is one reason I love to simmer soup and stew this time of year.  The other reasons are more universal:  the chance to load a bowl full of vegetables, the frugality of re-purposing odds and ends…

Celebrate Peach Season with Local Peach Salsa & Local Peaches
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It’s peach season right now at Wolff’s Apple House!  Beginning in early July, our store manager, Brian Bednarz, begins to hand-select the best New Jersey peaches available from local farms.  New Jersey is famous for its peach orchards, and since it’s warmer earlier there, the earliest peaches you’ll find in our produce bins come from…