Glen, a long time Riggin Relic and friend, is often the first to greet me in the morning and I am often the first to greet him, with his cup of steaming coffee in hand. His cup is poured before anyone else’s, one because he’s a guest and two because he’s down in the galley […]
This week the cover came off the schooner! Sunny, warm, and folks we are going sailing soon. Now it’s just a race to see what we can get done before we drop the paint brushes and sanders, the cleaning rags and brass polish and hoist the sails for the first time. This is a lovely […]
By Annie Mahle
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Also posted in Breakfast, Close to Home, Cooking, Desserts & Sweet Endings, Fruit, Our Maine Windjammer, Uncategorized, Vegetarian
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Tagged black dinah chocolates, blueberry cream cheese scones, Cooking, desserted, kate schaeffer, Maine blueberies, Recipes
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Bread is not easy. Anytime we deal with a living organism, there is unpredictability. Live things just don’t always do what we wish, or it takes longer, or it happens faster. In any event, it’s not always on our exacting timetable. But it doesn’t have to be so maddening. A number of people have said […]
By Annie Mahle
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Also posted in Close to Home, Cook the Book, Cooking, Cooking 101, Grains and Pasta, Uncategorized, Vegetarian
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Tagged Annie Mahle, bread, Cooking, No Knead Bread, Recipes, roasted garlic and black olive bread
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My Grandma wasn’t a fancy cook. On the other hand, the recipes that she passed down to me are ones that I reach for time and time again. They are tried, true and most importantly, good. Her pancakes, her biscuits and of course her Irish Soda Bread (because, well that’s what today’s post is about), […]
January 26, 2013 – 10:20 am
For those who know me, but don’t live with me, it sometimes comes as a shock to find that I love football and specifically, the Patriots. While our guys didn’t play as well as we know they can for the AFC Championship this year… and while I’m still adjusting to the fact that my Sundays […]
December 10, 2012 – 2:10 pm
On the Riggin we serve orange/citrus wedges decorated with other fruit at some point during the trip. Occasionally we have leftovers. We used to save them, wait until the end of the week and then throw them out. Every week. Not only were we wasting the oranges, but the zip-lock bag as well. Now we […]
November 14, 2012 – 11:00 am
My dad has a saying, ‘Once you get a good thing, why change it?’ This saying applies to hats, jackets, coats, flashlights… and the list goes on. Electronics, of course, are excepted from this adage. Which means that when a hat wears out after 20 years of use, he looks for a new one just […]
November 10, 2012 – 9:44 am
One of my new favorite publications is Baker’s Notes put out by Scratch Baking Co. and designed by MORE & Co., the same group that designed Sugar & Salt, my new cookbook. The layout is a playful mix of daily snipets that allow a peak through the window of a baker’s life and serious tutorials […]
January 16, 2012 – 9:44 am
Up until I discovered Scratch Baking Co.’s bagel recipe in their new and really cool journal, Baker’s Notes, I’d been using Julia Child’s/Dorie Greenspan‘s in Baking with Julia Child. Fear not Julia and Dorie, you both remain Goddesses to me. Both recipes are good and because the descriptions are so detailed, I was able to […]
January 15, 2012 – 12:03 pm
Recently Ella asked what a chicken nugget was and in one of those parenting moments when you realize so many things all at once, I thought about how sheltered she is, how lucky she is, how proud I am of the choices we are able to make and also, how sad that she doesn’t get […]
