The beginning of summer in New England is embraced and celebrated in a way that only those who have endured a long New England winter can appreciate. Especially this past winter, with its record-setting snowfall that continued into early spring. One way to know that summer has truly arrived (because as New Englanders, we don’t […]
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. For COMPLETE instructions, see the USDA Guide to Home Canning at these two sites:
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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