Nothing goes better together than smoked ham and maple syrup! Below is a great recipe using the two for a fantastic meal, enjoy!

Maple smoked ham

This is sure to be one of the best hams you’ve ever eaten. It’s smoky and succulent, with a hint of cloves and a sweet, crunchy coating. Serve it for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, or for any gathering where you’re feeding a crowd. The leftovers are great in sandwiches, casseroles, and salads – that is, if you have any leftovers!
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Once again it’s time for another great recipe that uses pure Vermont maple syrup! This one is Maple pecan pie, and boy is it good!

Maple pecan pie

This is a real all-American recipe – sort of a North-meets-South dessert. It requires pure Vermont maple syrup, along with pecans from Georgia or some other Southern state. This scrumptious treat is sure to have you saying, “God bless the USA!” after just one bite.

This pie is a favorite at Thanksgiving, Christmas, or any time you want a special treat. You’ll find that the maple syrup and pecans are a great taste combination, as each seems to enhance the taste of the other. This is a very rich dessert, so a small slice is usually sufficient.
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Once again it’s time for another great maple syrup recipe! This one is called Maple-pineapple grilled chicken breasts, and it taste as good as it sounds.

Maple-pineapple grilled chicken breasts

Boneless chicken breasts can be awesome on the grill, but if you’re not careful, they can closely resemble chicken jerky. A marinade that contains both an acid and an oil will help ensure that the breasts turn out tender and moist. This particular marinade also adds a wonderful flavor to the chicken – sort of like a Polynesian sauce.
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Well everyone, I’ve been out in the woods a lot the past few months getting all my maple sugaring stuff put up and getting ready for the Vermont maple sugar season for 2011!

The Vermont maple sugar season starts around now, the end of Feb. to somewhere around the end of March. Each year is a little different, it depends on a lot of things.

How cold it is, the swings in temperatures between day and night, sunlight and lots more determine how long the maple sugar season last and how soon it will start.
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Once again it’s time to share another great recipe that uses my pure Vermont maple syrup! This one is not a desert but a main course of any meal, the potatoes. Hope you like it!

Maple sweet potatoes

This recipe is an improvement on the traditional sweet potato casserole that many Americans enjoy at Thanksgiving and Christmas. The main difference is the inclusion of pure Vermont maple syrup. The maple syrup adds another dimension of flavor to the concoction.
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It’s time for another maple syrup recipe! This one is called maple spare ribs, and it taste as good as it sounds! Ribs with a maple syrup coating for taste, what could be better than that?

Maple spare ribs

The real key to great ribs is to have them tender on the inside and brown and crunchy on the outside. The best way to achieve this is to cook them at a low temperature until they’re done, and to then cook them for a short period at high heat.
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Well the Vermont maple sugaring season of 2010 is winding down. It’s always hard to say how well the maple sugar season will be each year. It all depends on the weather, how cold and warm it gets during the nights and days.

The 2010 season is over, but there is lots to pick up, clean up and do. It was an about average year for Vermont maple syrup production. Not a great amount but not too bad.

The actual maple syrup is very good quality, that never changes. It’s how much maple syrup you harvest that makes a great or bad year. It’s a lot of work in a short time, then it’s all over.

So try to pick up some brand new 2010 pure Vermont maple syrup soon and see how great it taste on pancakes, french toast and many other foods. Nothing beats the taste of fresh Vermont maple syrup!

The Vermont Maple Festival is a food and arts celebration featuring various events such as pancake breakfasts, maple product exhibits, craft exhibits, a specialty foods show, antique shows and markets and more. Visitors can also enjoy maple candy- making live demonstrations, carnival rides, sugarhouse tours and sap run, and numerous concessions all dedicated to Vermont maple syrup.

This festival is held on the last weekend in April. Over 50,000 people go to the Maple Festival every single year, which makes it the most popular annual event in St. Albans. The sugarhouses are opened to the public and visitors from all over the world have the opportunity to experience lots of different events as each maple sugarhouse comes with something of its own.
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Well everyone, the 2010 Vermont maple sugar season has started! Actually it’s been going on for a few weeks now. When the days get warm all that stored sap in the maple trees expand inside the tree.

So it starts to pour out of any cuts and holes in the tree. That is why we drill those holes in the tree and collect the sap coming out. We hope the nights are cold. That’s because the tree sucks up more sap to replace the sap it lost during the warm day.

This keeps happening for a few weeks until the maple tree adjust to the warmer weather, and then it no longer has sap running out of it. So far this year it has not been very good maple sugaring weather.

It has stayed warm, so the maple trees are not pouring out a lot of sap. If it keeps staying warm the sugaring season will be all over in a week. But you never know about the weather in Vermont!

One of the most well known companies of supplies for maple syrup making is Leader Evaporator Co. In business since 1888, they are the ones you go to when you need maple Syrup harvesting supplies.

Maple syrup is an excellent source of manganese and zinc and contains fewer calories and a higher concentration of minerals than honey. It is a good sweetener to use if you are trying to protect the health of your heart.

Such a great product needs to be properly displayed and marketed; for this reason, Leader Evaporator Company provides a complete line of supplies for maple syrup packaging, storage and shipment. Leader Evaporator has been in business since 1888, being the largest maple syrup equipment manufacturer in the USA.
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