Main Dishes

How to Make Chicken and Sausage Cassoulet

My husband and I have been doing quite a bit of fall cleaning recently in an attempt to de-clutter our tiny Boston condo. After spending an afternoon moving furniture around, the last thing either of us wants to do is slave away in the kitchen to make dinner. Enter this Easy Chicken and Sausage Cassoulet […]

Food

Recipes | Treats for Santa

Come Christmas Eve, don’t head to bed without leaving a snack for St. Nick! While milk and cookies are a classic Santa staple, we think any sweet treat will keep you on the “nice” list. Keep it traditional with sugar or chocolate chip cookies, or try something new and keep Santa guessing for next year.

Food

Yankee’s Lost and Vintage Recipes

Over the last few months, both Aimee Seavey and I have blogged about our work testing recipes for an upcoming Yankee cookbook. And now that project is done and printed and for sale on our site! We have had so much fun on this project, combing through our archives to find recipes that sounded delicious […]

Food

Pierogies (Polish Dumplings)

This family recipe for potato and cheese pierogi (Polish dumplings) are a holiday favorite.

Cooking Advice

Yankee’s Best Lost and Vintage Recipes

Recipes tell a story. Not in the familiar sense–there are no plot points in the ingredients list, no surprise endings in the method (except, maybe, when it comes to soufflés). But if you step back and look at recipes over time and as a whole, they tell a rich story about how people lived: how, […]

Desserts

Best Cook | Easy Trifle Recipe

Shelley Osborne is sitting at the kitchen table in her well-appointed loft in a refashioned brick mill beside the Nubanusit River in West Peterborough, New Hampshire. On her shelves are small groups of English china, teapots, creamers, willowware and yellowware, treasures collected from chapters of her eclectic life. “Growing up, I lived in England, and […]

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