It’s not too early to start planning your holiday gift giving, and an assortment of homemade liqueurs is just the ticket for all the grown-ups on your list. Even if potential recipients don’t normally imbibe, these liqueurs can all be used to drench a pound cake, mix into mousse or drizzle over ice cream. More […]
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Eats: Add love and lusciousness to those lunchboxes
It doesn’t seem like it was that long ago when I was a working mom with four kids to feed. Believe me when I say I know how to pack a lunchbox, but more importantly, I taught those kids, at a very early age, to pack their own lunches. Filling up the lunchboxes was an […]
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For a delicious summer snack, eat a daylily
Do NOT eat lillies,only daylillies When bright orange daylily blossoms start to open along country roads in summer, it’s a beautiful and welcome sight. It always seems like a midpoint between the hurry-up planting of crops in spring and the harvest-rich enjoyment of summer and fall, along with the planting of cool-weather crops. The time […]
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Stop and taste the roses
Roses belong to the rosaceae family, which gives us apples, plums, cherries, strawberries and more. In this part of the world, we rarely think of eating roses or using them in a recipe. A few petals sprinkled across the plate or added to a salad is about as adventurous as we get. So the four […]
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Eats — Open: A new 'Frank's,' with its own moxie
Thirty years ago, an errant spark lit up Lisbon’s Worumbo Mill. The sprawling red brick structure and its decorative spires had graced the town’s eastern gateway for over 100 years, greeting visitors and reminding locals of their deep roots along the river and their history of hard work. After the fire, gossip at the “Moxie […]
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Eats: Grand Graze-ing at Pineland Farms
The partnership between Pineland Farms and The Black Tie Company began in June 2013 when the two hosted their first Graze dinner. Called “Strawberry Fields Forever,” the event featured all manner of delicious dishes paired with the summer’s first berries. Now in their fifth year, “Graze at Pineland Farms” kicked off the 2017 farm-to-table dinner […]
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Eats: Give your next picnic an international flair
Did you know that June 18 is not just Father’s Day, but also International Picnic Day? Although answers to when, why or how this special day for picnics began are elusive, picnics themselves can be traced to the end of the French Revolution and the Victorian Era when attending a picnic allowed people to put […]
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Eats: Loaves of Love Bakery — Grandma’s in a box
A cinnamon roll from Loaves of Love Bakery Once upon a time, beloved Maine cook, food writer and cookbook author Marjorie Standish wrote about bread. It was one of her earliest columns, published on Jan. 2, 1949, about the tradition of good, homemade bread. She wrote: “Truly, you’ve never realized one of the real joys […]
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Eats: What’s for dinner? Depends on what’s in the cupboard!
Strata, a savory and cheesy bread pudding, can be made in advance using stale bread and a couple cups of chopped meat and vegetables left over from other meals. I live over 10 miles from the nearest grocery store so I have a tendency to stock up when I’m in town. I never know when […]
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Eats: Easy as pie — and just right for Mom’s big day
I never thought of making pie as “easy,” but I have many recollections of watching my mother whip them up like nobody’s business. She would often say, “It’s just as easy to make more than one.” Often I would come in from school to find her rolling out pie crust, slicing apples or sorting berries. […]