Summer is approaching peak bounty here in New England. Blueberries, raspberries, figs, peaches are in every market. They looked so gorgeous at the store today that I created this simple parfait dessert to show them off. The recipe is easier than it might look: You make a quick, no-fail pastry cream on the stove […]
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Fish & Seafood
Swordfish Kabobs | Summer Grilling
The winter holiday season might be the most popular time of year for partying and eating, but there’s nothing like the fun and flavor of a summer barbecue, complete with in-season, garden-fresh dishes. These swordfish kabobs have become a staple in my house this summer. They’re perfect for a weeknight dinner, but also special enough […]
Gardens
Weeding Tips
Learn about weeding tips that will save you time and keep your garden and landscape looking great.
New England may be small in size, but as we all know, it lacks for nothing in significance. I love that I am always learning something new about our six states — through the beauty of the landscape, lessons from the landmarks, and stories from the many people that have called it home. We certainly […]
Breakfast & Brunch
Brown Bread Muffins
Brown bread may not strike you as a summer treat, but I’d argue that, along with cornbread, it’s the perfect accompaniment to barbecue. And we’ve made it simpler by taking the bread out of the steaming pot and into muffin tins. By adjusting the formula a bit, adding more cornmeal and baking powder, we produced […]
Main Dishes
Perfect Fried Chicken
Fried chicken is having a renaissance. Of course, it never really went away. But this year, I’m hearing about fried chicken pop-up restaurants, seeing fried chicken recipes in every newspaper and magazine. My friend, Adeena Sussman, spent the past couple of years traveling the country to research fried chicken recipes for the cookbook she just […]
Half the fun of shirred eggs is how easy it is to mix and match the other ingredients, depending on what you’ve got on hand or what extras your brunch guests might prefer. Try a few variations and see what new favorites you’ll discover. With a dish so simple and versatile, your only limit is […]
Wild or cultivated, blueberries hold a seasonal joy all their own. Whether you pick them yourself or buy them from a local farm stand, fresh blueberries are a rite of summer in New England. For a special treat, look for wild, or lowbush, berries from Maine. Maine produces 98 percent of the U.S. lowbush crop. […]
Main Dishes
Homemade Pizza Dough | Make Your Own
Make your own pizza dough and top it with fall foods, like onions and mushrooms. Start here with Annie B. Copps’ pizza dough recipe. RECIPE
Like a good friend, a good sausage offers much and asks for little in return. Its wants and needs are simple—perhaps the company of mustard and bread or a beer and some salad. Maybe a knife and fork. Happy to be picked up in your fingers, it can even be content with less. Here at […]
This past weekend, when the temperature finally rose to those 80-degree numbers we’ve been waiting for, all I wanted to do was sit on the porch and enjoy the sunshine. Did you feel the same way? Anticipating the mid-afternoon heat-swoon that sometimes sends me indoors, I planned ahead by hauling a small fan onto the […]
Magazine
Shad | Poor Man’s Salmon
Nobody loves shad more than the citizens of Windsor, Connecticut, who hold the Shad Derby to celebrate its return the third Saturday in May with dances, parades, and an immoderate amount of eating. Yankee Classic: “In Praise of Poor Man’s Salmon,” Yankee Magazine, May 1991 The shad? They’re always here. By the time it ‘s […]