Certainly when the girls and Jon gifted me with a greenhouse for Mother’s Day last year, this is not what I was hoping for when I walked to the back of the house one recent blustery day! The winds blow so hard on our property that securing this house to the ground somehow becomes a [...]
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 [...]
Each year when we visited my grandparents for three summer weeks in their rural home in New York, we’d spend our time doing essentially nothing. It wasn’t exciting, it wasn’t exhilarating and it wasn’t elucidating. Sometimes it was boring. The funny thing is, however, that now I look back on those days with a rosy, [...]
No knead sourdough bread is super easy on the arms and the Kitchen Aid. All it takes is time. After the dust of the holiday festivities had settled, I still had a refrigerator full of food needing immediate use. This bread began with a little bit of leftover oatmeal from the morning’s breakfast and became [...]
My sewing machine whirred away for a while this Christmas season in an attempt to give small, meaningful gifts from the heart rather than the pocket book. These coasters were one such gift and I’ll be posting about others over the next few months. For those who have sailed on the Riggin already, the striped [...]
When I was testing waffle recipes for the column, Jon and I had an assembly line going. Me making batter, him cooking the waffles. Click over to the Portland Press Herald to find recipes for Potato Cilantro, Chili Chocolate, Mocha or Coconut Orange Chocolate Waffles. Peanut Butter Banana Waffles 1 ripe banana, mashed 1/2 cup [...]
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 [...]
Newfi Bread This recipe is a favorite on many vessels in the windjammer fleet. 2 tablespoons (2 packages) dry yeast 1/2 tablespoon salt 8 cups white all-purpose flour 3 cups warm water 2 tablespoons soft butter 1 cup molasses Combine the yeast, salt, and flour in a large bowl. Stir in all the remaining ingredients, reserving [...]
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 [...]
Pomegranate is one of the girls favorite winter fruits. That, combined with our gigundous box of citrus that has just arrived from Florida, rounds out this dish nicely. It’s a beautiful crop of oranges and grapefruits this year and the juicy globes are just what I’m hankering for. This recipe is one I almost [...]
