Author: elderjscott
Scott Elder is a self-taught home cook with a passion for cooking real food, celebrating outstanding local Ohio ingredients & constantly broadening his culinary horizons. He's a new daddy and an HR professional turned pediatric ICU nurse who revels in connecting with others. On his blog he shares his gastronomic exploits, travels and other life adventures.
Cherry Pie-lette
I’ve made pies before and I’ve made galettes. While making tart cherry jar pies recently, I was left with more pie filling and crust than I had clean, sterilized jars. I had the choice of either sterilizing more jars, letting them cool then making more jar pies or I could try to figure out another…
Life’s A Bowl of Cherries
…or more appropriately in this case, it’s two 10-lb buckets of them. I’ve been away from the blog for a while for a myriad of reasons, but mostly our new business venture and the wonderful distraction of travel. More on travel in a future post (or several). We’ve officially purchased the dental practice where my…
Apple Butter Wedding Favor
Favors from our wedding: chunky apple butter made from apples we picked at Lynd’s Fruit Farm near Columbus, OH
What’s The Word, Curd?
I want to tell you today about something new to me that I’ve fallen in love with–blueberry curd. Even more than that, I want to tell you about Kate. She inspires me. At the risk of sharing too much about her, I’ll try to be brief.
Bacon-Wrapped Jalapeño Poppers
We’re growing lots of peppers in our raised wall containers so I put several of them to good use at this week’s Home Ec. Home Ec is an event started in Toronto by Joel & Dana at Well Preserved (definitely check ’em out!) that’s spread to Columbus. Basically, people of all culinary skill levels who may/may…
Cinnamon Pecan Scones with Frangelico Glaze
So if you know me, you know my attention span can be fleeting at times. For this reason, I avoided Pinterest for a long while. Then, I got on and got sucked in, then ignored if for a while after seeing too many ridiculous posts about one-pot meals and hyper-thematic kid parties. Since then, I…
Peach-Pecan-Pistachio Pull-Apart Bread with Elderflower Glaze
I had to schedule an 8am meeting with coworkers last week. I felt so bad about it that I told them I’d make something for breakfast. I was thinking something like scones or a huge fruit salad, then it dawned on me that I could make pull-apart bread. I wanted something fresh and spring-like, which…
Violet Syrup
There’s not much better than the gift of spring flowers and foliage after a long and seemingly endless winter. To that end, I’ve been taking every opportunity to celebrate the return of visible life & recovery. I’ve also recently taken up running (to be honest–jogging) as a hobby/fitness routine. I’ve noticed so many violets popping…
Something I Love: Microplane
I recently read an article where a chef was asked her favorite tool/utensil in the kitchen. I don’t recall the answer and it wasn’t the first time I’d seen that question asked of someone. I just kept thinking there’s no way I could answer because I couldn’t do what I do in the kitchen without…
Growing Our Family
This is likely the most personal thing I’ve ever written that will be made available to a public audience, but I’m doing so for multiple reasons. First, I’m choosing not to hold this in any more. As an extrovert I often need to express myself in order to process through thoughts and emotions fully. Second,…
One Year of Blogging
The ride so far… It’s hard to believe, but it’s been one year since I wrote my first blog post. In that year, I’ve written 40 posts– largely food-related–and have interacted with quite a few folks I’d have likely not met otherwise. I rented a domain to give this blog a proper home and even started…
Live, Love & Sustain 