I love a good Super Bowl party, but truth be told I am not a big football fan. I confess, I am one of those fair weather Pats fans. But the party… What a great excuse to have tons of friends over in comfy clothes to have a long casual meal. I never set the […]
First Lady Michelle Obama shares a tip to help with making her favorite apple cobbler recipe. “Bake at 300 for up to 3 hours — that’s what makes the crust flaky, like Barack likes it,” says Michelle Obama of her apple cobbler recipe. “This recipe makes one cobbler, which is like a double pie.” If, […]
Everyone has a recipe for chili, it seems. And everyone’s is different, whether with the meat, or lack thereof, or spices. Here’s a selection from the Yankee recipe database that will get you through the long winter days. RECIPES
So much more than just fuel for our bodies, comfort food can also give great pleasure and solace. Sometimes it’s the act of cooking that comforts; the methodical pace of chopping and slicing offers a primal, satisfying rhythm that connects us to ourselves. Sometimes it’s cooking with and for others that restores calm. Other times […]
In New England, butter is a special year-round gift whose taste and texture vary magically with the cycle of the seasons. Around the beginning of April, as the early spring greenery is sprouting, dairy cows are moved from their bedding and troughs in the spiderwebbed dustiness of the barn to the soft light and delicate […]
New England’s first world champion chili maker, Jerry Buma, shares his favorite chili tips along with his best chili recipe.
Winter in New England might be the season you look forward to all year, or it might be the season you endure, but no matter — we’ve got all of the tips, treats, and must-see places to make winter fun all season long. Grab your mittens and let’s go! #1 Build An IglooFirst, brush up […]
Yankee food editor, Annie B. Copps, introduces family meals on a budget on the Today Show‘s “Managing Today” series. She shares her recipes below for extending a pork roast into stir fry, sandwiches, and ravioli, for example. Click here for more pork recipes and for a special “presidential pork” recipe from one of Yankee‘s Best […]
Mt. Washington Valley, NH — December 13-14, 2008, is the weekend the Country Inns in the White Mountains assure holiday revelers the ultimate in sweet dreams at the 12th Annual Inn to Inn Holiday Cookie and Candy Tour. Participants will tour 15 inns decked in their holiday finery and offering holiday cookies and candies, and […]
1. Budget gift: New England food baskets. 2. Recipes for budget food gifts from Annie B. Copps’ Today Show video. 3. Plan your menu. Recipes for Side dishes and the turkey. 4. Decorate with nature and color and Matthew Mead ideas. 5. Alone on Thanksgiving? Create a family around the holiday table. 6. Perfect pie […]
Where do you find more than 400 recipes and tons of tips that you will use in the kitchen every day? In The Old Farmer’s Almanac Everyday Cookbook! The recipes in this cookbook are tested and updated and come with illustrations, photos, and helpful hints. For example, “don’t cut salad greens — tear them. Metal […]
If you ask Roger Andrey how he pronounces his name, his international past emerges. “It’s Roh-zhay Ahn-dray,” he’ll tell you. His father was born in Switzerland, but his mother’s family was Italian. While in Milan, at the age of 11, he learned his first recipe, a vinaigrette for which he’s still famous. He relates this […]
