Main Dishes

Updated Chicken a la King Recipe

A modern updated chicken a la king recipe. This version uses more vegetables, fresh herbs and shallots, less flour, and crème fraîche instead of cream.

Food

Quick and Easy Illustrated Recipes for Winter

Lauren Stein is a Boston-based journalist and author whose charming new book, Fresh Made Simple (Storey Publishing: 2015), offers bright, fun flavors combined in recipes that are so accessible and easy to make, they’re not even written as traditional recipes. Instead, Stein’s collaborator, illustrator Katie Eberts, turns them into lively illustrations, presenting all the information […]

Soups, Stews & Chowders

Asparagus-Rice Soup with Sausage

This simple, rustic Asparagus-Rice Soup with Sausage brings together some of the best flavors we associate early spring: asparagus and lemon.

Condiments

Make Apple Butter in the Slow Cooker

Follow our simple instructions to make apple butter in the slow cooker at night! When you wake up, the house will smell like heaven.

Food

Butternut Squash | In Season

Pureed, roasted and baked, Butternut Squash — a New England favorite — makes winter a sweeter season. It’s one of the best-tasting, easiest squashes to cook with—once you get the peel off—and the base of many a soul-warming soup. It also has deep New England roots. Butternut squash got its start in Massachusetts in the 1940s, but […]

Food

10 Tips for Making Great Pie

First, let me say that pie is one of my favorite things to make. But it took time to get comfortable with making pie crust and whenever I teach a pie-making class, I see the fear. But with these tips for making great pie, you’ll soon be feeling like a pie pro. 1. When in […]

Food

Brown-Sugar Shortbread

We found this recipe for brown-sugar shortbread in our December 1948 issue and tweaked the proportions to work with contemporary ingredients. Delicious!

Cooking Advice

The Yankee Kitchen: Blue-Ribbon Apple Pie

Yankee Magazine’s Amy Traverso shares her recipe for the perfect apple pie, an American classic. Hi, I’m Amy Traverso, Lifestyle Editor at Yankee Magazine. Today, I’m going to be making one of my favorite recipes which is Blue Ribbon Deep Dish Apple Pie. It’s my favorite apple pie and it comes from my book, The […]

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