The best way to tell “fresh” among live lobsters is to look for the liveliest. They get lethargic as they go along. In fact, lobsters that are held in tanks for a long time after they’re caught may move so little that they have moss growing on their shells. Do not accept a mossy lobster. […]
Yankee Magazine Editor Amy Traverso shows you how to cook Lobster. This is the true New England way! Hi. I’m Amy Traverso, Lifestyle Editor at Yankee Magazine, and welcome to the Yankee Kitchen. Today I’m going to be teaching you how to cook lobsters. Not my favorite chore, I have to admit, but the results are worthwhile. So […]
5 favorite spots for the some of the best New England local sausages. Goes great with baked beans!
I want to make thick & chewy chocolate chip cookies , not ones that are thin and crisp. I use a modified Toll House cookie recipe and still use butter (not honey), yet I can’t get the cookies to be as thick as those I remember my grandmother making. They seem kind of runny, […]
I want to give my family the fiber that is good for us, but I don’t like the spongy center of zucchini or the large stems of spinach. Still, I pay good money for cold cereal full of bran. Am I throwing away fiber in vegetable skin when I discard the outer layer of a […]
Writer and cook Crescent Dragonwagon — author of Bean by Bean — shares her tips on how to cook Boston baked beans.
A Providence diner — Olneyville New York System — serves up hot wieners with its own brand of dinner theater.
Basking in today’s recaps of the Patriot’s unbelievable Super Bowl victory last night, I stumbled across this story about Tom Brady’s favorite pancakes on Eater.com. It links to a video in which Tom Brady narrates (by phone) the recipe for his favorite flapjacks. A shot of a pancake seductively bubbling away in a skillet provides […]
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Simple and nourishing, this Shaker Tomato and Rice Soup is the perfect winter warmer. With a theme this week of “soups and stews” (just the thing for the deep freeze of mid-January), I once again headed to the Yankee archives in search of a recipe that would pique both my interest and my appetite. Each […]
