This delicious recipe for lobster chowder comes from a real Maine lobsterman, and yields a rosy red broth that’s loaded with lobster chunks and potatoes.
Soups, Stews & Chowders
chocolate
Between the berries and the apples, it’s time for orchard fruits! Make the most of seasonal cherries, plums, peaches, and pears in this collection of sweet orchard recipes. Classic Cherry Pie Plum Cake with Almond Streusel Peach Cobbler Sour Cream Cherry Bars Pecan Peach Muffins Orchard Fruit Slump Coffee Cake with Chocolate Cherry Crumb Pear […]
Remember Congo bars? This recipe yields delicious chocolate chip squares studded with pecans and flavored with coconut. If you like soft chocolate chip cookies, you probably like blondies and Congo bars even better, since the ratio of chewy center to crisp edges is more in your favor. This Congo bars recipe, adapted from the Wellesley […]
Vermont
Lake Champlain Chocolates
In-house chocolate sculptress Emily Jones of Lake Champlain Chocolates creates art out of chocolate. I saw this fine piece of edible art displayed in their shop at 65 Church Street, Burlington, Vermont in 2006.
Easter is a holiday with solid sugar ties. Each spring we are presented with baskets of sweetness (actual baskets!) in the form of fluffy yellow marshmallow chicks, great handfuls of shiny jelly beans, and enormous chocolate eggs with oozing semi-liquid sugary centers. My teeth hurt just thinking about it. Cavities aside, the annual Easter Basket […]
The new honey saison on Hill Farmstead’s roster of craft beers is the very model of genteel elegance: a gauzy-golden farmhouse ale redolent of local wildflower honey, citrus peel, and ripe banana, with a vaguely medicinal finish that imposes structure the way a cinch belt curbs a frilly frock. Or rather, it will be, once […]
Topped with a chunky peanut butter frosting, this portable “Coke cake” is a fun and easy summer party dessert. Summer is the season for ultra-portable sheet cakes, and it’s hard to imagine a more kid-friendly cake than this Coca-Cola-infused sheet cake topped with a broiled peanut butter frosting. Using just one pan, it requires no […]
Desserts
Homemade Cherry Devil’s Food Cake
Cherries and chocolate make for one sweet pairing, and look as pretty as they are delicious to eat in this homemade cherry devil’s food cake from scratch. A lot of recipes out there for this particular cake call for a boxed devil’s food cake mix and a can of cherry pie filling. While this probably […]
Desserts
Waffle Iron Brownies
The iron gives these waffle iron brownies crispy ridges, but the inside remains rich and fudgy. They’re novel and fun and incredibly easy to make.
Cooking Advice
Chocolate-Hazelnut Tartlets
Hi. I’m Amy Traverso, Lifestyle Editor at Yankee Magazine. I’m going to show you today how to make some delicious Chocolate Hazelnut Raspberry Tarts. They are a terrific holiday dessert or a little thing to pass around at your holiday party. So let’s get cooking. Now I’m going to make the shortbread crust. I start […]
“Do you want to go to Lenten Lunch?” My colleague, Ian Aldrich, was on his way over to the Dublin Community Church, a classic white-steepled building two doors down from Yankee‘s offices. I should’ve remembered: Every year during the season of Lent, the church hosts an all-you-can-eat meal of homemade soup and bread for the […]
A unique project in the small Vermont town of Cabot reveals what its people, young and old, treasure most.