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.

Cooking Advice

Easter Dinner Menu | Monthly Menu

Prepare a classic holiday meal for dinner guests when you use this Easter dinner menu. Start with baked ham, dinner rolls, scalloped potatoes, with asparagus, and end on a sweet note with our recipe for three-layer carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. RECIPES

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.

Cooking Advice

Cooking 101

If you want to be a chef — and these days, it seems nearly everyone does — you’ve got to have a first-class culinary education. And to get a first-class culinary education, you’ve got to go to Paris, or London, or at least Hyde Park, New York, home of the Culinary Institute of America. Or […]

Cooking Advice

Food for Thought

See also Cooking 101. There are probably as many ways to get a culinary education as there are professional chefs. If culinary school seems a bit narrow in its focus, you may want to check out some of the liberal-arts and career colleges in New England that offer culinary programs along with English, math, and […]

Breakfast & Brunch

Johnnycakes and Chowder | Rhode Island Recipes

The scents of a hot griddle and sautéed onions fill the kitchen of Barbara Stetson’s 18th-century North Scituate house. Barbara is known locally as the Johnnycake Queen, which, in a state in love with johnnycakes, is tantamount to being the queen of all. Barbara calls herself “a good plain cook” who wants to show people […]

Food

Ten Favorite Holiday Desserts

‘Tis the season for sweet tooth cravings! From iced sugar cookies to spicy gingerbread, we’ve got the perfect recipe for your holiday table.

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 […]

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