There’s no time like the present to make a gift of homemade cookies. Read on for Christmas cookie recipes and tips for wrapping and sharing your baked goods. Swap cookies and recipes with friends: How to Have a Cookie Swap Gift wrap ideas: Vintage Wares for Baked GoodsDelivered Daily: New England Recipes and Tried & […]
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Cooking Advice
VIDEO: Potato Bread
Move mountains of leftover mashed potatoes into a loaf of bread with this recipe and video tips from Yankee food editor Annie B. Copps. Recipe: Potato Bread
Cooking Advice
VIDEO: Apple and Almond Open-Faced Tart
Choose whatever apples you like for this Open-Face Apple-and-Almond Tart. Ginger Golds, Empires, Corlands, Macs? Recipe: Open-Face Apple-and-Almond Tart
Refrigerate turkey leftovers within 2 hours after cooking. Cooked turkey stays fresh in the refrigerator for 3 to 4 days, but immediate freezing will provide premium quality. Chop leftover turkey and wrap 1- to 2-cup portions in heavy-duty plastic wrap to seal in freshness. Next, place the airtight plastic-wrapped packages in a heavy-duty zip-top bag […]
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VIDEO: Pumpkin Whoopie Pies
Watch as Annie B. Copps puts a fall flavor in whoopie pies with pumpkin using a recipe from Yankee‘s new cookbook, Yankee Magazine’s Best New England Recipes. Here’s her recipe: Pumpkin Whoopie Pies.
Fish & Seafood
New England Scallops
Scallops are a true New England treat–their very shape is an iconic reminder of beachside fun and shell-hunting summer afternoons. Their real gift, however, is delivered when our waters begin to chill down, for what lies snugly between those grooved, hinged shells is a faintly sweet, buttery nugget with a mild tree-nut flavor. Perhaps the […]
Food
Best Cook: Cookies
Our Best Cook, Nori Odi, is preparing Christmas cookies. Her industrious kitchen in Greenfield, New Hampshire, is filled with the aroma of rich maple. Nori lives here with her husband, David Gilmore, better known as “Rags.” Rags is a software engineer, a career that Nori once shared. But now it’s all about food, although the […]
As teams take to the field in a battle for victory, fans head into “Tailgateville,” firing up the grill and cooking a pre-game feast. More than 20 million Americans tailgate in a stadium parking lot yearly, and Food Network’s Sandra Lee has the winning recipe for the total tailgating experience — food, football and fun. […]
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Dinner at the Farm
Last night we had our usual Wednesday-night dinner at the farm. This is the best time of year, because, well, it’s a farm … and the farm is very happy right now (despite the devastating loss of most of the tomatoes). I made, if I do say so myself, a fantastic gazpacho with fresh tomatoes, […]
Teresa D’Angelo was 7 years old when the German army stormed her home village of Orsogna in Abruzzo, Italy, in 1943. She and her family fled, hiding in a cave for 13 days. Neighbors sneaked small pieces of food to them. “Just bits of bread,” she says now, standing in her recently renovated kitchen in […]
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Bread Recipes
Once a staple crop here, wheat is appearing again today in New England’s fields, thanks to a small but growing group of dedicated farmers. What to do with local wheat? Try these bread recipes and savor the flavor. Read more: Homegrown Wheat VIDEOS: Irish Soda Bread Making Potato Bread Want a dozen sensational seasonal recipes […]
In this classic Yankee profile, the queen of cooking ponders her next move.