There are 3,000 islands off the coast of Maine, however, not all of them are suited for low tide landings. One that we love no matter what the tide, is in Merchant’s Row off of Stonington, Deer Ilse. It’s a small island, but with two beaches that allow for a leeward fire (in our fire […]
A good friend of mine often shows up to our meetings together with her breakfast – a bright green drink so brilliant, it’s hard to know how she got it to be that green. We are talking neon, nuclear green. So one day, I asked her. Spinach, she says, is the key, without the […]
By Annie Mahle
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Also posted in Breakfast, Columns, Cooking, Fruit, Kids Food, My Favorite Things, Salad, Things to Sip, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Vegetarian
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Tagged Annie Mahle, Cooking, maine ingredient, Recipes, vegetable smoothies, vegetables for breakfast, veggies in the blender
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Some silent but beautiful signs of spring and life in the garden… Hello, old friends.
By Annie Mahle
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Also posted in Close to Home, Garden, Herbs, Uncategorized, Vegetarian
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Tagged Annie Mahle, chives, Cooking, garden, herbs, horseradish, loveage, Recipes, tarragon
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Thank you. Thank you for the sun, the warm weather, the seeds that are sprouting and the really simple plastic covers that are making it all possible. Thank you for it all. It’s such a blessing to walk in the garden everyday and delight in new growth and green. The plastic is a new idea […]
To go with the Red Rice and Asparagus Salad posted yesterday… Roasted Leg of Lamb Stuffed with Parsley Walnut Pesto The size of the lamb leg will vary depending on how large the animal was when butchered. I’ve seen them as small as 4 pounds and as large as 8 pounds. Most of the ones […]
April 15, 2013 – 12:24 pm
Sometimes, no matter how mountainous the piles, no matter how voluminous the dust bunnies, no matter how numerous the emails, when a person opens the door to personally receive the mail from the mailman and feels not a blast of icy air but gentle warmth and gets a whiff of not brisk or crisp, but […]
By Annie Mahle
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Also posted in Garden, Salad, Uncategorized, Vegetables
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Tagged Annie Mahle, cold frame, cold weather crops, cold weather gardening, Cooking, four season gardening, Gardening in Maine, Growing Greens, Maine, reicpes
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The column runs today. What’s for dinner? Parmesan-Crusted Chicken Breasts with Caper and Kalamata Olive Pan Sauce; Olive Oil Mashed Potatoes; and Toasted Pinenut and Garlic Spinach. I made this meal for my mom and dad when they were last out. Mom liked it because it felt light and Dad liked it because it was […]
Radishes, spinach and lettuce seeds are all happily sprouting on the window sill in the kitchen where I can water them, love on them, enjoy them and talk to them. The ground is still mostly covered with snow. The skies are often gray but oddly bright with frequent white fluffy flakes drifting down. And inside, […]
By Annie Mahle
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Also posted in Close to Home, Garden, My Favorite Things, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Vegetarian
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Tagged Annie Mahle, Cooking, greenhouse, Maine, micro-greens, Recipes
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February 27, 2013 – 10:19 am
I couldn’t take it one more day. The seed catalogs have begun to saunter in and I’ve resisted looking at one, but instead have filed them in the cabinet next to my desk. It’s February you see. If I look at seeds and green and growing, I will start to yearn – for seeds and […]
By Annie Mahle
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Also posted in Garden, My Favorite Things, Uncategorized
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Tagged greenhouse, growing, indoor gardeing, lettuce, Maine Gardening, paper boxes, radishes, recycled seed trays, seed starting, Seedlings, Spinach
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January 7, 2013 – 9:49 am
Grumpy didn’t begin to describe how I was coming to feel about our 15 year old couch. My parents still have the couch they were gifted when they married and even more, the couches that were my grandparents. Yup, re-upolstered, but still have them. So when I looked at our couch, only 15 years old, […]
