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 […]

Food

Lobster | New England’s Gifts

(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 […]

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