Food
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Rhubarb Pie
Cooking Advice
How to Choose Fresh Mushrooms
Photo/Art by Brenda Darroch Please settle a dispute: my friend says the best mushroom caps are the ones that are tightly closed and that open ones will spoil much sooner. I say bigger is better. Who’s right, and can you tell me how to choose fresh mushrooms? It depends on the mushroom, but I’ll assume […]
A master of outdoor wood-fired ovens shares some tips. If you’ve ever wanted to have a wood-fired earthen oven in your backyard—whether for making homemade pizza or bread or simply because it’s really cool to have one—there’s no better place to start than with one of Stu Silverstein’s books or workshops. A native of New […]
Food
Curried Chicken
Jamaicans use this basic curried chicken recipe to prepare a variety of dishes, including goat, mutton, oxtail, fish, even tofu.
It’s prime asparagus season, a tender green bonanza, a harbinger of summer’s bounty. And nowhere is this season more celebrated than in the Pioneer Valley of west-central Massachusetts. For many years, these fertile floodplains of the Connecticut River Valley made up America’s premiere asparagus-growing region. The rich, sandy soil was so productive in the towns […]
Food
Corn Muffins
Food
Homemade Fish Sticks
Excerpts from “Sayings of the Oracle,” Yankee Magazine, May 1951, and Yankee Magazine, May 1957. MAY 1951 Vermont: Dear Oracle: … It is a trend of extravagant times, I maintain, that the old-fashioned pincushion is no longer in the home! Old Yankee thrift dictated the slogan: “See a pin and pick it up.” … Today miles […]
Breads
Quahog Popovers
This reader-submitted “favorite” recipe for quahog popovers first appeared in Yankee back in 1968.
This easy, one-dish shrimp and rice casserole features tasty shrimp in a creamy tomato sauce with a nice, crispy top. It’s perfect for parties.