This week, after all of the holiday food, the only thing I want is soup. Simple, hot and easy. These two recipes ran in the latest Maine Ingredient column.
Black Bean and Jasmine Rice Soup
Spinach and Gorgonzola Soup
Annie
I think I might be in a food coma.
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Crepes Eggs Benedict
This is a meal we have only once a year – Christmas morning. My mom started this tradition and Jon and I are carrying it on with our family in Maine. It’s great if it’s a family affair as you can assign jobs. There are so many eggs in this recipe that the [...]
Our retirement home for aging chickens is woefully short on the production of eggs right now. One egg per day – total – just isn’t cutting it. It could have something to do with how freaking cold it is here right now (Even my husband is wearing his fingerless mittens today. In the house.) [...]
Every year, three or four mom’s and our kidlets congregate in one of our small kitchens and completely sugar up our kids with Christmas cookies. Mountains of frosting and sprinkles are usually constructed on top of the unrecognizable sugar cookies as they decorate with an unrestrained hand. The floors are wooden and everything wipes down [...]
Grandma’s Ginger Cookies
This recipe was first given to me by my grandma, in her hand writing. The card still rests in my recipe box with all of the other memories she gave me. The smell of them baking always brings the feel of how soft a hug was from her.
My grandma used shortening (Crisco) but [...]
School was canceled today, even before the first flake has graced the ground. They keep saying it’s coming … And the doom and gloomster weather people say that for us on the coast it will be 3 to 6 inches and followed by rain. Only part about this that’s doom and gloom for me is [...]
Every week on the Riggin, we do some sort of tasting for one of our appetizers. It’s fun, educational, elegant and not that much work. All perfect reasons to have a tasting be part of your holiday appetizer repertoire.
This week’s column is all about how to do tastings. The traditional, formal way is to have [...]
The urge for organization and simplification usually comes in January, but we got the bug early. For at least two years, the discussions around the At Home, At Sea website (for my cookbook At Home, At Sea: Recipes from the Maine Windjammer J. & E. Riggin) have gone round and round. Mostly focusing on how [...]
When people find out that we live, the four of us, in a room smaller than some people’s closets all summer long, one of the first questions they ask is about the girls. What do they do on the boat all summer long? No tv. Very little space for toys. Here are a few of [...]
Yesterday, just to prove to Rebecca, our very organized onsite gardener of Gabriella’s Gardens, that I could do it, I filed last year’s seeds. Not alphabetically as she was hinting I should, but by category – greens, heat loving plants like tomatoes, sprawlers like cucs and squash, flowers, herbs and lastly, bushy things. You know, [...]
