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, Eco-Friendly & Sustainability, Fruit, Kids Food, My Favorite Things, Salad, Things to Sip, Uncategorized, 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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I used to seriously dislike radishes. They are so sneaky – pretty, alluring red and then, BAM, hot-peppery-cabbage taste. However, before you go nodding your head with the “uh, huh, sista,” consider a radish that’s not been sitting in a bag for two weeks waiting for some unsuspecting person who loves colorful food to put […]
By Annie Mahle
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Also posted in Columns, Cooking, Garden, Uncategorized, Vegetarian
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Tagged Annie Mahle, fish taco recipe, Fish Tacos, grilled radish, grilled vegetables, Homemade Tortillas, Pineapple and Red Pepper Salsa., Radish and Red Onion Salsa, Radish recipe, Refried Pinto Beans
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Easter weekend for us is always comprised of orphaned families, including ours, converging on our house for a large meal. By ‘orphaned families’ I mean those families who don’t live near extended family and can’t always celebrate every holiday together. Most of us don’t travel for this holiday, but instead, gather every year to create […]
Farmer Tom from Hope’s Edge delivered gorgeous fronds of leeks to me in early May last year – not nearly far enough into the growing season to have them as large as they were. But these leeks were special. They’d been heeled in and over-wintered under a deep layer of straw. When we had a […]
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 Eco-Friendly & Sustainability, Garden, Salad, Uncategorized
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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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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, Eco-Friendly & Sustainability, Garden, My Favorite Things, Uncategorized, Vegetarian
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Tagged Annie Mahle, Cooking, greenhouse, Maine, micro-greens, Recipes
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February 16, 2012 – 12:00 pm
Sometimes it’s such a relief to cook for the same number I cook for all summer long. It must sound funny, but it’s actually LESS thinking for me. I don’t have to hold back on amounts like I do when cooking for the family or testing recipes and even then half the time I end […]
By Annie Mahle
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Also posted in Appetizers, Cheese, Cook the Book, Grains and Pasta, Main Dishes, Uncategorized, Vegetarian
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Tagged Anne Mahle, appetizers for a crowd, Cooking, Recipes, vegan appetizers, vegan recipe ideas
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December 27, 2011 – 11:30 am
The word “casserole” conjures up images of canned cream of-fill-in-the-blank soup from my childhood. I grew up in the Midwest, in a household that watched the price of milk and bought in bulk when it went on sale, which meant that we were no stranger to casseroles of the tuna variety and others. While my […]
December 21, 2011 – 11:21 am
This recipe came to me as one of those happy accidents. During the middle of a catering job for 50 people, I popped what was meant to be a lightly cooked cabbage and squash slaw with flecks of both strewn throughout, into the oven. A few guests arriving, a few mini-catering emergencies later and this […]
December 13, 2011 – 11:30 am
This steaming, hearty soup-for-dinner recipe is easy and fairly quick. Just add salad and crusty bread and you’ve got a great dinner. While soups are all very simple to make, what makes any soup flavorful is the time that you take at the beginning to develop the flavor. I mention this often, taking time in […]
