Fiddlehead Pasta Recipe
It was a rainy May Saturday morning at the indoor farmer’s market within the State of Maine Cheese shop. After considering little jugs of…
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Fiesta Chicken Salad
Finally. Finally, Finally, Finally. You know how much I like living in Maine. How grateful I am for seasons, especially fall and winter. And…
Two Ingredient Banana Pancakes (Gluten & Dairy Free)
We probably spend more time sifting through Pinterest boards than most people, looking for inspiring new ideas to tackle here on From Away. Most…
Crusty Chicken Thighs with Mushroom Ragout
I’m not going to bury the lead, here. This recipe is one of the easiest to prepare that we’ve ever featured, while also delivering…
Josephine’s Italian-Style Stuffed Artichokes
My grandmother never taught me how to make her famous stuffed artichokes. I had to rely on over-the-phone oral tradition – a conversation with…
Cheese & Mushroom Pull-Apart Bread
Browse Pinterest for inspiration for long enough, and some strange things start to happen to your sense of right and wrong. Two hours in,…
Simple Cauliflower Gratin Recipe
We were desperately in need of real dinner. A proper, grown-up meal taken at the table and not in front of the TV. We’ve…
Cornbread Dressing with Fresh and Dried Fruit
My idea of truly perfect stuffing involves bread, sausage, sage, butter, onion and celery. But not even sausage, really, or even sage. One day…
Watermelon Salad Bites
I’m always tickled by foods that don’t arrange themselves into a cohesive whole until you take that first bite, when disparate ingredients come together…
Yukon Gold Potatoes with Crème Fraîche and Lobster Roe
Do you eat the roe? Typically I do not, when enjoying lobster, munch on its eggs, nor do I suck the legs, drink claw…
Zucchini Fritters
My Grandpa Jack was a plumber, steamfitter, and armchair theologian. He sat in a rocking chair, a most masculine nicotine-stained piece of furniture, or…
Sweet Potato Muffins
Now is the time of year when visiting hordes of tourists are pouring into Maine, crossing the Piscataqua and climbing ever higher up I-95.…
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…
Stuffed Tomatoes
Tradition. (tradition!) I feel like it’s my duty to institute and instill rituals for our family. I am the keeper of the kitchen, the…
Strawberry Rhubarb Sangria
A boozy wine punch is an excellent way to entertain casually in the Summertime. Sangria makes any small gathering of friends feel like a…
Pork Chops with Cherry-Rhubarb Sauce
When we think about rhubarb, it’s all too easy to get bogged down in thinking of it used strictly in sweet ways; in pies,…
Vanilla-Roasted Rhubarb and Strawberries
I didn’t know rhubarb would grow so tall. I didn’t know about its fluttering flowers and fleeting stalks. Or the shameless pink of its overground…
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Grilled Flank Steak Tacos with Chipotle Rhubarb Salsa
You know what’s a reasonable thing to have in your garden? A rhubarb plant. You know what’s less reasonable? Having ten enormous rhubarb plants.…
Hungarian Mushroom Soup
We love patronizing local establishments as often as we can, but we seem to be always on the move. It’s a neat trick to be…
Tomato Pie
When does a vintage recipe require revision, or reimagination, and when is it perfect as is? This is the question I asked myself as…
Broccoli Rabe, Spicy Sausage, and Ricotta on Garlic-Rubbed Bread
If you haven’t been in Maine this week, you are missing out on magic. Whatever the cause, it has been undeniably wonderful to be…
Leek and Goat Cheese Pie
Home Made is a beautiful picture book filled with recipes I seldom make. Flipping through its pages makes me wish I spent a semester…