Yesterday afternoon we moved our cars down by the East End beach, in anticipation of the crazy storm and the inevitable parking ban. This morning at 6AM the early risers from Munjoy Hill trudged down to begin the long, arduous process of chipping 1/2″ of solid ice off of our cars.
It took us over [...]
Category Archives: Uncategorized
What to do with a single, beautiful pomegranate, and a dinner hostess who loves chocolate?
Chocolate Mousse with Olive Oil
Adapted from delicious:days
(Note: Somehow, when reading the original recipe, “3 egg yolks plus 3 egg whites” got translated into 6 eggs, separated. No wonder it made 11 servings instead of 4-6. Do as I [...]
The New Best Cornbread Ever.
16-Dec-07I thought I had the recipe for the best cornbread ever. I really did. My favorite cookbook, Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything, rarely steers me wrong.
But then we were headed for dinner at a friend’s house, and a slight wheat allergy meant that I had to get creative. Bittman’s recipe, like [...]
All this snow has got me in a holiday mood. And holidays mean sweets.
White Chocolate Pudding with Pomegranate Seeds. I love white chocolate. I know it’s not real chocolate. But I still love it.
Kahlua Date Nut Bread. The Maine version might involve Allen’s Coffee Brandy instead. (Seriously. Mainers [...]
Fridge Raid: Stuffed Spaghetti Squash
13-Dec-07I like winter squash. It’s in season, it’s hardy, and it’s often very local. But usually, in my kitchen, it winds up in the same old soup. I like squash soup, but that gets pretty old. So I bought a spaghetti squash, which I’ve never played with before, and threw together [...]
I’ve been thinking about cheesecake. Lucky me, because of the time of year there have been oodles of cheesecake recipes around the blogosphere. I even saw a recipe on America’s Test Kitchen recently for a lower fat cheesecake that supposedly passes Christopher Kimball’s muster. (A difficult thing to manage. Those Vermonters [...]
Maine Shrimp are Good Shrimp
09-Dec-07Saw a post over on Slashfood that Dec. 1 marks the official beginning of the Maine shrimp season.
An interesting factoid about Maine shrimp (Pandalus borealis): Apparently, although the species lives across the oceans of the world, the population in the Gulf of Maine does not migrate. Instead, just like the human Mainers, they [...]
The truth is tasty and full of eggs
09-Dec-07A few weeks ago in the Press Herald there was a news item about a local dairy. Because of some FDA inspectors, the dairy had to find a way to label their egg nog as containing eggs. Because, you know, people with egg allergens would of course think egg nog was okay to [...]
Dinner Plus Leftovers: Beans and Greens
09-Dec-07I didn’t grow up in Maine. Shocker!
I grew up south of the Mason-Dixon line. Not very far, but far enough that split pea soup was on the rotation at home and I developed an almost unnatural love for good savory cornbread. So although I can’t remember eating anything with long-cooking greens at [...]
Friday Recipe Roundup
07-Dec-07As befits the season, I’ve been seeing a lot of recipes that involve sweet potatoes, potatoes, beets, carrots, parsnips — those incredible root vegetables that often get short shrift. With the snow not expected to melt anytime soon, and more of the white stuff in the forecast for today, it makes me feel warm [...]