Soups, Stews & Chowders

Shepherd’s Stew

Packed with veggies and sweet or hot Italian sausage, this hearty recipe for Shepherd’s Stew is quick and easy to prepare — and very good, too. For a thicker texture, add more meat.

Appetizers

Easy Hot Lobster Dip

This easy hot lobster dip is sure to be the hit of any party; the only problem is it disappears too fast.

Food

Slow Cooker Maple Baked Beans

Sweetened with maple syrup and molasses, these homemade maple baked beans are both delicious and easy to make.

Living

Firewood Hints, Tips & Advice

If you store firewood in the cellar, pour a concrete floor first. This will make for easy cleanup. If you need firewood fast, cut ash. Unseasoned, it burns better than any other wood. Seasoned, it’s excellent. Long rows of stacked firewood are likely to tip over and tumble like dominoes. If you stack your firewood […]

Desserts

Big Mama’s Lemon-Lime Tassies

Filled with citrus curd and made in tiny muffin pans, these lemon-lime tassie cookies are tart, sweet, and just plain delicious.

Breakfast & Brunch

Lobster Omelette

Made with fresh lobster, scallions, mushrooms, Parmesan, and dry white wine, this lobster omelette recipe is deliciously decadent.

New England

A Guide to New England Winter Comforts

Here in New England, where winter winds barrel through our mountains and down our coast, folks have long known how to stoke those inner fires.

Magazine

Suited to a T | Timeless New England

Though the novelty of “horseless carriages” had largely worn off by 1914, the sight of Virgil White motoring through Newport, New Hampshire, that February caught the attention of the media. Under a published photo of White’s unusual conveyance, parked on a snowy roadway and filled with bundled-up passengers, was this wry description: “It appears to […]

Magazine

Storm Chaser | Winter Comforts

When I was in my twenties, I spent the better part of my leisure time at a certain bar in Cambridge, Massachusetts, situated in a basement-level space on that somewhat charmless stretch of Mass. Ave. between Harvard and Central squares. It was called the Cellar, and it possessed all the elements of a good cold-weather New […]

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