Breakfast & Brunch

Baked Eggs in Hash Brown Cups

Attractive and savory, these baked eggs in hash brown cups can be made with any combination of veggies, meat, and cheese to please your brunch guests.

Food

Fish Cakes | Recipe with a History

A sacred fish, Yankee thrift, and Lenten tradition gave us a classic New England dish that’s worth celebrating and reinventing.

Food

Asparagus Tart

Nothing signals the end of winter like the return of fresh produce, and asparagus is often one of the first spring vegetables to remind us of the warmer months to come. By pairing the tender stalks with freshly grated cheese and puff pastry in an easy asparagus tart, you’re just minutes away from an elegant […]

Food

Shaker Tomato and Rice Soup | Yankee Recipe Archives (1988)

Simple and nourishing, this Shaker Tomato and Rice Soup is the perfect winter warmer. With a theme this week of “soups and stews” (just the thing for the deep freeze of mid-January), I once again headed to the Yankee archives in search of a recipe that would pique both my interest and my appetite. Each […]

Magazine

Best Classic Yankee Covers | 2014 Fan Favorites

Our weekly Classic Cover Challenge on the Yankee Magazine Facebook page has proven itself to be one of our most popular features. Each Monday we put up two cover images from Yankee’s nearly 80-year history from the current month, and the winner takes on a challenger until the month is over. Here’s a roundup of […]

Main Dishes

Tuna Tango Noodle Casserole | Yankee Recipe Archives (1967)

To celebrate Yankee‘s 80th anniversary in 2015, The Yankee Seeker will spend the year cooking and baking from the vast and colorful Yankee Magazine recipe archives. Will the retro results hold up to today’s tastes? We can’t wait to find out! As an inaugural theme for “Yankee Seeker Meets Yankee Archives,” I chose “comfort food” […]

Food

Lime-Pineapple Cheese Mold | Retro Recipe

After I made a cranberry gelatin mold last year around this time (see Cranberry Gelatin Mold | Retro Recipe), Yankee art director Lori Pedrick told me about a holiday gelatin mold that’s made with lime gelatin, crushed pineapple, and a blend of cream cheese and cottage cheese. Affectionately known in her family as “Lime Slime,” […]

Desserts

‘While Visions of Gingerbread’ | Gingerbread Recipes

Flavor, fragrance, and memory turn a Christmas treat into a timeless tradition. It seems as though at the exact moment when the last leaf falls each year, the gingerbread appears. From the bakery to the coffee shop to the drugstore (gingerbread-flavored lip balm, anyone?), this sweet-and-spicy combination of ginger and molasses, preferably in traditional cake […]

Appetizers

Holiday Appetizers Through the Decades | 1930s Potato Puff Balls

Welcome to “Holiday Appetizers Through the Decades,” a special series celebrating over 75 years and 9 decades of Yankee Magazine holidays and tasty party appetizers! Each post spotlights a new decade with a classic cover, seasonal advice from the pages of Yankee, and one special party-pleasing holiday appetizer recipe for you to try. Yankee Magazine […]

Food

Homemade Onion Dip

If your life is like mine, the holiday season means a calendar that’s jammed for six weeks with a series of parties and get-togethers where the main event is eating, eating, maybe some gift-giving, and then some more eating. This also means we spend a fair amount of time beforehand cooking, baking, and asking “What […]

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