When two dozen guests vacation together on a schooner, gathering around good food becomes more important than politics.
Recipes
Give Maine flour the pancake or cookie test for a fast score
Experiment with locally produced flours, and store them in the refrigerator, and the results are bound to be popular.
In praise of trout, cooked almost any style
It’s superb with a fine – not chunky – nut coating, or poached in red wine or roasted with lime and dill.
Chefs give gomasio its season in the condiment limelight
The Japanese blend of sesame seeds and salt lends a savory flavor and light crunch to whatever it’s sprinkled on.
Sea Food: Remote Maine island perfect for lobster bake, but backyard works, too
Wherever it happens, it’s an eating experience everyone should have at least once.
Patti Hamilton makes really terrific cole slaw – for 900 hungry people
The food director for the Bicycle Coalition of Maine chops all that slaw by hand.
Cookbook review: ’40 Mouthwatering Recipes: Crème Brûlée: The World’s Most Famous Dessert’
Given the choice among the four wispy volumes of “40 Mouthwatering Recipes” – Crème Brûlée, Panini, Burgers or Pumpkin – no one should fault me for choosing dessert first. In 63 glossy pages, this narrow volume on the classic French dessert (“Crème Brûlée: The World’s ‘Most Famous’ Dessert”) promised to positively reinvent the dish – […]
The Maine Ingredient: Farmers market treasure hunt a delightful way to buy dinner
The vendors provide the cheese, the beets and the pork, and you get to enjoy it all.
Sea Food: Sailing in the rain with a ‘Singing in the Rain’ attitude
On the Schooner J. & E. Riggins, the cook/co-captain takes foul weather in stride.
Recipe: Citrus-Glazed Mussels
The flavorful dish serves 8-10 and is from food columnist Brooke Dojny’s ‘Dishing Up Maine.’