In the spring, one of my favorite people gifted me with her mother’s french onion soup crocks and while I was excited to share about it then, it was too close to summer for anyone but me to be all that jazzed about French Onion Soup. Only in Maine would someone find a day cool [...]
Clam Chowder There are three ingredients that make this a very traditional recipe: salt pork, day old biscuits or saltines and milk. The more you substitute the less traditional your chowder will be. Notice that there is no butter or flour to thicken the chowder. If there were, then it would be Cream of Clam [...]
This soup is not your average Campbell’s with a side of cheese sandwich, although I wouldn’t pass on the grilled cheese. It’s bright, tangy, zesty and imminently satisfying to the body for it’s flavor and to the mind for the childhood memories it brings to the fore. This time of year, canned tomatoes are perfectly [...]
The unsettling, warm, gray rain continues to come straight down as our ground turns from fluffy white to matted green and the snow disappears amidst the wet onslaught. Days like this require something robust, creamy and comforting. The little people in our life have decided that rainy days always call for “Cheesey Soup,” as it’s [...]
Use the bones from a turkey that you either break down yourself or ask a butcher to save them for you. Use the carcass, neck and giblets (those squishy things that come in the bag if you are using a store bought turkey). Place in a large pot with 2 large carrots, 2 small leeks [...]
Squash and pumpkins come in a myriad of shapes and sizes some endearing and some impressive. Some pretty or cute and some, well, just downright ugly. No matter about what they look like on the outside though, because it’s the flavorful inside that counts. The seeds and the flesh. I find that many squashes can [...]
The new issue of Maine Food and Lifestyle came in the mail today and with it my column on fresh pea soup served hot or cold. Try as we did to make a good looking picture of this beautiful, bright green soup, on film it looks, at best, unappealingly gray and therefore we will absolutely [...]
