Earlier this year I spent some time assisting Yankee’s Senior Life and Home Editor Amy Traverso with recipe testing for our upcoming annual “cookbookazine,” and one of my favorite recipes to come out of the cookbook process was the one for these jam-filled thumbprint cookies, which I am referring to as Summer Jam-Filled Thumbprint Cookies […]
Everyone is talking about the weather this summer. With record-breaking days more often then not, it’s hard NOT to talk about the weather. I remember the first summer I moved to Boston. Coming from the Midwest, where central air is the norm, I was shocked to find that most apartments didn’t have air conditioning at […]
With all the warm weather we’ve been having this week, I’m craving grilled food and cool salads. How about you? This hearty quinoa salad was this week’s improvisation, and it was such a hit that I had to write it down and share it with you. Quinoa, as you probably know, is a popular alternative […]
Oh, blueberry season. Each year you arrive with the dog days of summer and stain our hands and mouths purple with your delicious, juicy fruit! Native to North America, blueberries come in two types — highbush and lowbush. The latter is what we think of as “wild” blueberries, and the great state of Maine produces […]
Lobster roll at Nubble Light
Summer is in full swing, and it’s a HOT one this year. Most of the country is experiencing record breaking temperatures already! To beat the heat, we’ve been doing everything we can to avoid using the oven to cook dinner. This means a lot of salads — like this recipe for grilled chicken salad with […]
One of my favorite holidays is the 4th of July’s, America’s Independence Day. Because it falls smack in the middle of summer, the 4th has always been a holiday I associate with swimming pools, hot dogs dripping with ketchup, cold cans of orange soda, drawing my name with sparklers, and a delicious roster of 4th […]
