This simple, rustic Asparagus-Rice Soup with Sausage brings together some of the best flavors we associate early spring: asparagus and lemon.
Amy Traverso
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.
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 […]
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 […]
Love a menu with historic ties? This collection of 21 fresh-but- familiar holiday recipes from the Yankee recipe archives is here to help.
Our guide to the best artisinal cheeses, chocolates, jams, cookies, pickles, and other worthy New England edibles.
We found this recipe for brown-sugar shortbread in our December 1948 issue and tweaked the proportions to work with contemporary ingredients. Delicious!
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 […]
(Homarus americanus) Bertha Nunan was the proprietor of Nunan’s Lobster Hut in Cape Porpoise, Maine, from 1974 to 1995. In 1979, we asked Bertha for her advice on cooking lobster, and her words have stood the test of time. Bertha passed away in 2009, but her two sons and their wives—the third generation—still run Nunan’s […]
Where to Eat in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Dining out in the hip, seaside city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire has never been more delicious.