Food
Food
The Trifecta
This past Saturday, I faced a delicious dilemma: When you’ve had a perfect breakfast and lunch, where do you go for dinner? It started at Sofra, Ana Sortun and Maura Kilpatrick’s incredible bakery in Cambridge, MA. My parents were in town to celebrate Father’s Day, so we treated them to a breakfast of glazed orange […]
Cooking Advice
Canning Safety Tips
Follow these instructions to safely can your summer harvest at home. Use only clean, perfect glass canning jars (no nicks or cracks). You may reuse jars, but always use new seals (lids) and screw rings. Start with cold water when it’s time to sterilize the jars, seals, and rings by boiling. Use a rack or […]
I’m haunted by a pickle. The kitchen shelves glimmer with jars of homemade preserves after a summer’s worth of gardening, harvesting, and putting up. Clove-scented beets glow deep garnet, and the cauliflower sparkles crystalline, bejeweled with tiny bright-red–and lethally hot–Thai peppers. Zucchini pickles stack up right next to the oven-roasted tomato sauce. Strawberry and wild-blueberry […]
If you want to do better than the others in your boat, sit in the back; the person in the back always gets the largest catch. When fishing for cod, the key to keeping them good and firm is to gut them as soon as they’re caught; if you throw them in with the others, […]
Food
Fresh Strawberry Pie
Here’s the view from my “office” today. We’re doing a three-day photo shoot for the new Yankee Favorites cookbook (see last year’s edition), due out in mid-October, and the setting is the beautiful studio of photographer Heath Robbins. This is, hands-down, the nicest studio I’ve ever worked in—5000 square feet of well-lit studio, office, kitchen, and comfortable […]
Desserts
Berry Festivals in New England
There is nothing like a good old-fashioned New England Strawberry or Blueberry festival. Though there are hundreds of fruit festivals, which celebrate just about any fruit imaginable throughout the New England area, blueberries and strawberries are two of the very few fruits that are native to our part of the United States. Because of this, […]
Food
Fresh Salsa
Food
Green Bean Salad
The tart lemon plays off the sweetness of the veggies in this green bean salad, and a little garlic gives them a kick. Try adding toasted nuts, too