Classic Chicken Noodle Casserole
Listen. I get it. I hear what you’re saying out there. About how this recipe is made mostly of canned condensed soup. About how…
Category: Classics
Chocolate Chip Brownies
Last week, I was giddy with excitement. We had dinner plans two nights out of the week. Two nights where other people were going…
New England Style Anadama Bread
This morning, on a walk in Tenants Harbor, I found a red leaf on the sidewalk. It was the very earliest harbinger I’ve seen…
Classics: Grandmother Muskie’s Polish Meatloaf
Let’s get something sorted out right off the bat: Grandmother Muskie, she of “Polish Meatloaf” fame, isn’t my grandmother. She’s Jane G. Muskie (Mrs.…
Simple Peanut Butter Buckeye Recipe
My childhood fascination with truancy wasn’t particularly unusual, I don’t think, though I may have come to it a little sooner than most. I…
Chocolate Chip Fudge Brownies
If you have a serious craving for chocolate, this fudge brownie recipe is the ultimate, all-time, perfectly gooey dessert. They will blow your mind…
Stuffed Mushrooms Recipe
These stuffed mushrooms are a perfect party canape. Classic, bordering on kitschy, but not all-the-way kitsch. The inclusion of Ritz crackers was, in my…
Smoky Ham and Split Pea Soup
I, for one, am not complaining about the rain. It’s a fine excuse to wear green Wellingtons, watch Netflix documentaries, and drink a splash of…
Sloppy Joe Recipe With Chorizo
Is there a more quintessentially American food than the Sloppy Joe? Okay, so the sandwich, a slurry of beef, onion, and sweet tomato sauce,…
Classics: Deviled Ham
Before we even get started, I realize that I’ve already lost some of you. Some, or maybe even most of you, read the title…
Irish Corned Beef and Cabbage
Once you have settled on the idea that the days of drinking pale green tinted beer until you lose vision in your right eye…
Spicy Haddock Fish Cakes
The temperature rose to nearly 60 degrees here today, which is quite unusual for early March in Maine. Then again, it’s been an unusually…
Maine Lobster Dip
There’s something about this dish that has a delightfully 1950s vibe to it; something that makes me want to put on a ruffled apron…
Linguine with Mussels and Clams
A wader-wearing fisherman steps out smiling from the refrigerated barnlike structure, where haddock and other local fishes are getting sorted and processed, cleaned, scaled and filleted,…
Creamed Chipped Beef On Toast
Look, these are tough economic times. Not every lunch can be the aged hangar steak at Five Fifty-Five, and not every dinner can be…
Classic Yankee Pot Roast
Learning how to make pot roast is one of the more satisfying culinary endeavors you can undertake. There’s something immensely reassuring about taking big,…
Chocolate Peanut Butter No-Bake Cookies
The street that runs through the center of Thomaston, is one of the most picturesque main thoroughfares in any small town in Midcoast Maine.…
Classic French Onion Soup
To this day, I love French onion soup and dancing in unscuffed fancy shoes. This classic homemade version is a thousand times better than…
How to Make an Apple Pie
On this bright, clear afternoon, there is a pie cooling in the window. Yesterday, before the rain, I went to the tree and plucked…
Boston Baked Beans Recipe
There’s a reason bean suppers continue to be a Saturday night staple in the white-clapboarded churches up and down the coast of Maine: these…
Beef And Mushroom Stroganoff Recipe
For today’s post in our “Classics” series, we decided to give classic beef stroganoff a bit of an upgrade. While there’s certainly a warm,…
American Chop Suey Recipe
Everyone who lives west of Massachusetts thinks they know what this dish is, when I try to describe it. “Oh,” someone from Florida will…