Buttery with pull-apart layers, these “fan tan” dinner rolls make the perfect addition to any meal.
Breads
recipe
A great quick bread recipe is a must have in any respectable baker’s arsenal. Even beginner bakers can succeed at impressing their friends and family with quick bread. Quick bread recipes are usually mixed in a bowl with a spoon, as opposed to requiring a stand mixer and they are extremely adaptable. You can use […]
Desserts
Summer Jam-Filled Thumbprint Cookies
Earlier this year I spent some time assisting Yankee’s Senior Life and Home Editor Amy Traverso with recipe testing for our upcoming annual “cookbookazine,” and one of my favorite recipes to come out of the cookbook process was the one for these jam-filled thumbprint cookies, which I am referring to as Summer Jam-Filled Thumbprint Cookies […]
Everyone is talking about the weather this summer. With record-breaking days more often then not, it’s hard NOT to talk about the weather. I remember the first summer I moved to Boston. Coming from the Midwest, where central air is the norm, I was shocked to find that most apartments didn’t have air conditioning at […]
Food
Blueberry Boy Bait
Oh, blueberry season. Each year you arrive with the dog days of summer and stain our hands and mouths purple with your delicious, juicy fruit! Native to North America, blueberries come in two types — highbush and lowbush. The latter is what we think of as “wild” blueberries, and the great state of Maine produces […]
Before I accepted my Assistant Editor position here at Yankee Magazine back in November 2011, I was a full-time office worker by day and food blogger by night…including most weekends. Blogging started as a hobby but soon grew into a passion, and in time, I slowly went from bumbling novice to comfortable baker and slightly […]
Summer is in full swing, and it’s a HOT one this year. Most of the country is experiencing record breaking temperatures already! To beat the heat, we’ve been doing everything we can to avoid using the oven to cook dinner. This means a lot of salads — like this recipe for grilled chicken salad with […]
Cooking Advice
4th of July Desserts and Traditions
One of my favorite holidays is the 4th of July’s, America’s Independence Day. Because it falls smack in the middle of summer, the 4th has always been a holiday I associate with swimming pools, hot dogs dripping with ketchup, cold cans of orange soda, drawing my name with sparklers, and a delicious roster of 4th […]
Condiments
Perfect Hot Fudge Recipe
A quick, no-fail, perfect hot fudge recipe, from the archives of Yankee Magazine. It’s better than anything you can buy in the store. Usually when you see a headline like this one, the words “This Story Will Teach You How to…” are implied at the front. But I encourage you to take this headline as […]
Desserts
How to Win a Cooking Contest
Here are some tips from Mary Blenk: Don’t be intimidated. You have to just jump in. Enter often and don’t get discouraged. Learn from each experience. Any comment from the judges, positive or negative, is valuable. If your entry doesn’t win and you think it should have, enter it again–and again! There’s no rule against […]
We’re nearing the final stages of putting together the new Yankee cookbook (due out in October), and I’m having a hard time letting go. Looking through our archives, I keep discovering even more recipes to test and add to the collection, but we’ll soon be in the studio with Heath Robbins and Catrine Kelty making […]
June in New England is all about strawberries. With dozens of orchards offering pick-your-own and towns from Connecticut to Maine celebrating strawberry festivals, it’s the unofficial queen of the start of summer. If you don’t want to pick your own, stop by your local farm stand and pick up a quart like I did for […]