Mini Mint Meringues With Mint Chocolate Delightfulls
Did someone say mint meringue? This delightful (no pun intended) desert or midnight snack is great for the winter. But honestly it’s great all…
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Maine Lobster-Stuffed Chateaubriand with Bearnaise Sauce
I love old-school recipes like this. Sure, they might have fallen out of favor, in today’s cooking landscape more often obsessed with kale and…
How to Make Homemade Irish Cream
After nearly four years of working on this website, we’ve developed a bit of a reputation with our friends. Any time one of them…
Thin and Crispy Coconut Cookies
Downtown Rockland is perfect in December. Lighted wreaths on lampposts, couples walking hand in hand through gallery halls, friends in oversized sweaters drinking pints…
Super Crispy-Skinned Slow-Roasted Pork Shoulder
Each year, we try to make something extra special with a favorite cut of pork meat. It’s usually a pretty informal affair; I try…
Cranberry Cardamom Monkey Bread with Clementine Glaze
Monkey bread is the perfect holiday treat. Make it for an open house, brunch, or dinner party, and you will have every guest standing…
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…
Ferrero Rocher Stuffed Chocolate Cupcakes with Nutella Buttercream
Nutella, the chocolate hazelnut spread that Italians seem to love spreading on everything, is a food item that our family has deemed strictly off-limits.…
Brie and Mushroom Phyllo Puffs
I love having party food for dinner. On an autumn weeknight, in yoga pants, watching The Walking Dead, under a blanket and drinking wine…
No-Bake Peanut Butter Marshmallow Squares
This recipe is totally ridiculous. And insanely sweet. Like, cartoonishly so. They should require a Surgeon General’s warning and an appointment with your dentist.…
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…
Sugar Cookies
Sugar, butter, flour. A few other ingredients. It comes together slowly, the sugar cookie mixture. My baking anxiety always tells me there’s not sufficient…
How to Make Porchetta
Porchetta is an Italian street food, particularly in Rome, where it is served in market stalls or from trucks, often in sandwich form. Frequently…
Gingerbread Cake
Baby, it’s cold outside. Yesterday was clear and still and freezing, with an impeccable blue sky above. Last night the mercury dropped into the…
Bourbon Eggnog Ice Cream
A Christmas syllogism. Major premise: delicious eggnog must come from the carton. Minor premise: my eggnog ice cream is made with milk, heavy cream, sugar, and…
Chipotle and Rosemary Roasted Nuts
This was my first batch of homemade roasted nuts, and I am officially a believer. You will be, too. Regular ol’ bulk mixed nuts…
Homemade Hostess Sno Balls
Oh, the weather outside is…weather. There is not exactly a Jack Frost nip in the air; in Maine this week it’s fifty degrees and…
Mushroom Medley au Gratin
All of the flavor of this Thanksgiving side dish comes from the natural earthiness of the mushroom blend, with just a touch of additional…
Honey Cake With Caramelized Pears
I’ve already baked with apples and pumpkin, ginger and molasses. And today was a day for cake, a real, rich cake you cut into…
Queen Anne Cherry Cordial Ice Cream
My dad was absolutely in love with cherry cordials, those red boxes of chocolates with the liquid cherry filling that you see in supermarkets…
Roasted Bone Marrow with Parsley Salad
I‘ve been telling people recently that I’ve realized that there aren’t really foods I dislike; instead, there seem to be only degrees of desire…
Mustard-Crusted Standing Rib Roast With Dijon Créme Fraîche
Christmas Day kind of got away from us this year. Many of our elaborate plans for the meal we were cooking for ourselves vanished,…