Desserts

Meringue Cookies

With their crisp shell and slightly chewy interior, meringue cookies are delicate, melt-in-your-mouth magic.

Desserts

Pumpkin Streusel Bars

A flurry of pumpkin desserts crop up each holiday season, each trying to muscle out the mighty pumpkin pie for top billing at the Thanksgiving dessert table. While we wouldn’t try to dethrone a classic, we think these pumpkin streusel bars are a terrific variation on the pumpkin treat theme. A sweet graham-cracker cookie crust […]

Massachusetts

Mayflower II | Local Treasure

The ship that carried the Pilgrims has been long lost to history, but its recreation — the Mayflower II — continues to keep alive the story of the 1620 voyage and its undaunted passengers.

Main Dishes

Baked Macaroni and Cheese with Sausage and Tomato

This isn’t the first time I’ve made baked macaroni and cheese when I was in need of a little comfort food, and it definitely won’t be the last. Who can resist the classic combination of noodles and cheese, baked until bubbly and smelling like heaven? Not me. My favorite macaroni and cheese is made with […]

Side Dishes

For the Love of Baked Beans

Our recipe archives are overflowing with recipes for this classic New England dish; here are a few of our favorites for baked beans.

Food

Fresh Dairy Delivery in Connecticut | ‘Moo to You’

A Connecticut family dairy revives a time-honored tradition: farm-fresh milk, in glass bottles, delivered right to your door. This is Maisy,” Anne Dugas says, gesturing to a stall occupied by one of the 30 or so milking cows at Smyth’s Trinity Farm in Enfield, Connecticut. She says it the way you’d introduce a friend or […]

Food

2013 Editors’ Choice Food Awards

The editors of Yankee Magazine tasted our way through farmers’ markets and gourmet shops, tracked prize winners at fairs, and talked with foodies across New England to find the 30 products that we highlight here.

Food

Pickles | 2013 Editors Choice Food Awards

View the winner of the 2013 Editors Choice Food Awards — Pickles Category. ITALIAN DILLS Grillo’s Pickles Boston, Massachusetts In 2008, Travis Grillo decided that there might be a future in his family’s 100-year-old pickle recipe, so he began selling his “Italian Dills” (made with extra garlic) out of his car, then from a customized cart […]

Food

Tea | 2013 Editors Choice Food Awards

View the winner of the 2013 Editors Choice Food Awards — Tea Category. HIBISCUS TEA BLEND Ambrosia Chocolate & Spices Nantucket, Massachusetts Claudia Butler sells organic spices and chocolates at her adorable shop on Nantucket. Her chocolates are exotic, flavored with ingredients such as green tea, curry, and coconut. Her teas are equally good. Her “Hibiscus […]

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