Earlier this year I spent some time assisting Yankee’s Senior Life and Home Editor Amy Traverso with recipe testing for our upcoming annual “cookbookazine,” and one of my favorite recipes to come out of the cookbook process was the one for these jam-filled thumbprint cookies, which I am referring to as Summer Jam-Filled Thumbprint Cookies […]
Oh, blueberry season. Each year you arrive with the dog days of summer and stain our hands and mouths purple with your delicious, juicy fruit! Native to North America, blueberries come in two types — highbush and lowbush. The latter is what we think of as “wild” blueberries, and the great state of Maine produces […]
Digital editor Aimee Seavey shares her images from a recent spring “shoulder season” budget weekend on Nantucket in this colorful slide show. Thanks to a discount hotel stay, affordable bike rentals, and making the most of quick meals like burgers and hearty breakfasts, the visit was both affordable and fun. Read more about Budget Weekend on Nantucket.
Before I accepted my Assistant Editor position here at Yankee Magazine back in November 2011, I was a full-time office worker by day and food blogger by night…including most weekends. Blogging started as a hobby but soon grew into a passion, and in time, I slowly went from bumbling novice to comfortable baker and slightly […]
One of my favorite holidays is the 4th of July’s, America’s Independence Day. Because it falls smack in the middle of summer, the 4th has always been a holiday I associate with swimming pools, hot dogs dripping with ketchup, cold cans of orange soda, drawing my name with sparklers, and a delicious roster of 4th […]
June in New England is all about strawberries. With dozens of orchards offering pick-your-own and towns from Connecticut to Maine celebrating strawberry festivals, it’s the unofficial queen of the start of summer. If you don’t want to pick your own, stop by your local farm stand and pick up a quart like I did for […]
Last weekend two of my best friends, Melissa and Kayte, made a pilgrimage from Brooklyn to my new hometown of Keene, New Hampshire. Because they are both native New Englanders, I wanted to make sure their visit included some of the things they couldn’t get in Brooklyn. After a leisurely breakfast of eggs and homemade […]
Documenting a first-time experience hiking Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire.
One of the easiest summer cookout and BBQ dishes to throw together is a big bowl of Pico de Gallo. Whether it’s scooped up with crunchy, salty tortilla chips or spooned on top of a juicy burger, Pico is the perfect pick. You can jazz it up however you want, but basic Pico de Gallo […]
Whether you’re a lifelong Red Sox fan or not, there’s something magical about Fenway Park. Take a trip behind the scenes at Fenway Park’s 100th Anniversary Celebration, where fans attempted a new Guinness World Record for “largest toast at a single venue” on April 20, 2012. Let’s get one thing straight before we start – […]
The city of Boston is home to more than 50 colleges and universities, each churning out thousands of diplomas at graduation ceremonies every spring in recognition of noble scholastic achievement. Some Boston University graduates, however, are leaving school with a hard-earned appreciation of a subject other than Shakespeare or Socrates. In the basement of the […]
New England, as we all know, is jam-packed with historical bragging rights, not only in the sense that our six little states were (and are) flourishing epicenters of business, food, industry, art, education, writing, politics (the list goes on and on) but the enduring tributes to these achievements – the schools, museums, factories, monuments, houses, […]
