Cooking Advice

VIDEO: Annie Cooks: Asparagus Hummus

Annie Copps, Food Editor at Yankee Magazine, prepares a spring treat using fresh asparagus. Yankee food editor Annie B. Copps greets spring with this recipe: Asparagus Hummus Served With Dukkah Spiced Pita Chips. Watch the video for tips on cooking asparagus and how to prepare the hummus and chips. Hi, I’m Annie Copps, the Food […]

Salads

Homegrown: Dandelion Pesto

We curse dandelions. We tug them out and they return in what seems like minutes. Ah yes, the invasive and pervasive pox on our carefully manicured lawns–the dandelion. I say, befriend this persistent perennial (especially the first young shoots), and if you don’t treat your lawns with harmful chemicals (and I really hope you don’t), […]

Condiments

Blackberry Jelly | Jelly Recipe from the Best Cook

Maine’s ripe berries find a sweet home in our best cook’s kitchen, when Ruth’s Feeney whips up her recipe for blackberry jelly. On a warm August day, Ruth Feeney’s kitchen is fragrant with fresh blackberries. She’s making jelly from the berries she picked this morning over at the old family farm in Bryant Pond, Maine, […]

Side Dishes

Fiddleheads and Salad Greens Recipes

Eat your greens this spring with these tempting recipes for arugula, fennel, beet greens, young dandelion leaves, and that special New England treat — fiddleheads. RECIPES

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