7 Recipes to Use Up Leftover Storage Carrots
Thanks to the winter farmers markets, we’ve eaten well through the coldest, darkest months of the year. But now, we’re in mid-May and I am so excited to move on from storage crops … Well, once those carrots (and other stragglers) get eaten up, that is. Do you have carrots still begging to be eaten? […]
German-Style Roasted Cauliflower Salad with Lovage
Herbed Roasted Mushrooms
The white peaks of the first few tents rose in the parking lot at Abbott Square when I drove by Sunday morning. New signs installed declare the space “Home of the Bangor Farmers’ Market” along with the hours, days and other pertinent information. A new addition to the market, a food truck — dubbed the […]
Lemon Crumb Muffins
Sesame Soba Noodles with Brussels Sprouts
When my kids were particularly little, we had a little house set far back from the road. It was like a cocoon, a nest where they could run free. Our front porch only provided the slightest of views of the road. In those days, a swingset in the backyard provided hours of enjoyment, and playhouses […]
Slow Cooker Pulled Barbecue Chicken on Sweet Potatoes
Blueberry Cake with Fluffy Vanilla Frosting
When the lights dimmed to sheer darkness Saturday evening at the Brewer Performing Arts Center, it was a strangely comforting feeling — like being wrapped in a soft blanket of pure black. If I’d had to move at all, not just sit waiting for Robinson Ballet’s production of Extensions to begin, I would have probably […]
Roasted Broccoli Grain Bowl with Shallot Vinaigrette
Don’t tell my daughter’s favorite pot — the big pasta pot she’s named Patricia — but I play favorites in my kitchen all the time. There’s my worn, stained baking sheets — I like to think of them as well-seasoned — that I love for roasting veggies (and sometimes baking cookies on a parchment paper […]
Living a life of books is sweet like this Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie recipe
Through three states and at least a dozen moves, the books traveled with me. “Wuthering Heights,” “The Trust,” “On Bended Knee,” “Fahrenheit 451,” “Charlotte’s Web” and so many others. I’d collected them since childhood — the volumes I loved most or attached some varying sentimental value to. Ones I’d studied in college. Earmarked copies of books […]