A sacred fish, Yankee thrift, and Lenten tradition gave us a classic New England dish that’s worth celebrating and reinventing.
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Every cook needs a great coffee cake recipe for those lazy Sundays or potluck brunches or bake sales. This cardamom coffee cake is one of my favorites. It’s a classic crumb cake, topped with a generous sprinkle of streusel and perfumed with cardamom, which, in my view, is an completely underused spice. Click here for […]
Desserts
How to Make Coconut Pound Cake
Dense and sweet with big coconut flavor, this Coconut Pound Cake is one of our favorite spring cakes — it’s perfect for Easter and Mother’s Day!
Cooking Advice
VIDEO: Corned Beef and Cabbage
This corned beef has a twist that may make you wish it was St. Patrick’s Day more than once a year. If you don’t like boiled vegetables, try roasting them instead, says Yankee food editor Annie B. Copps. RECIPE: Annie’s Corned Beef and Cabbage
Food
Asparagus Tart
Nothing signals the end of winter like the return of fresh produce, and asparagus is often one of the first spring vegetables to remind us of the warmer months to come. By pairing the tender stalks with freshly grated cheese and puff pastry in an easy asparagus tart, you’re just minutes away from an elegant […]
Follow in Denise Eckhardt’s footsteps to make someone very happy on a special holiday or as a Valentine’s Day surprise. Thirty-seven years ago, when Denise Eckhardt was pregnant with her first child, a friend brought her a box of Serenade Chocolates, a locally cherished brand made by a beloved chocolatier in Brookline, Massachusetts. The box […]
Modern-day convenience meets old-fashioned charm. How one Maine couple turned a 1984 house into the antique of their dreams.
Cooking Advice
How to Make Thick & Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
I want to make thick & chewy chocolate chip cookies , not ones that are thin and crisp. I use a modified Toll House cookie recipe and still use butter (not honey), yet I can’t get the cookies to be as thick as those I remember my grandmother making. They seem kind of runny, […]
Writer and cook Crescent Dragonwagon — author of Bean by Bean — shares her tips on how to cook Boston baked beans.
Breakfast & Brunch
Testing Tom Brady’s Pancakes
Basking in today’s recaps of the Patriot’s unbelievable Super Bowl victory last night, I stumbled across this story about Tom Brady’s favorite pancakes on Eater.com. It links to a video in which Tom Brady narrates (by phone) the recipe for his favorite flapjacks. A shot of a pancake seductively bubbling away in a skillet provides […]
Simple and nourishing, this Shaker Tomato and Rice Soup is the perfect winter warmer. With a theme this week of “soups and stews” (just the thing for the deep freeze of mid-January), I once again headed to the Yankee archives in search of a recipe that would pique both my interest and my appetite. Each […]
Cooking Advice
Garlic Substitutes |Yankee Kitchen
I have many recipes that call for garlic. Unfortunately, my family and I are allergic to garlic. Can you recommend and garlic substitutes that won’t leave the recipe tasting bland? Allergic to garlic? Fate worse than death! You have my condolences. If other members of the onion family are okay, shallots would be a good […]