Use grilled slabs of the cheese in place of meat patties for these hearty burgers.
Recipes
Guide to growing shallots
Shallot be an unfamiliar allium it the garden this year? The Atwells say yes.
Hummus turns into a sauce for this fast one-pot pasta
Using hummus instead of chickpeas saves time, helps avoid waste, and puts a sometimes-pasty store-bought product to good use.
Home Plates: Eat, love, remember
A showstopper dessert evokes the beloved dessert maker.
Home Plates: Old Tavern Inn’s blueberry muffins celebrate Maine, however you make them
A Portland couple carries on a tradition started by one of their grandmothers, who took over an inn in Litchfield as a retirement project.
Hot honey shrimp and a crisp slaw make a quick meal for summer nights
After it’s tossed with hot honey, olive oil and garlic, the shrimp roast in just minutes.
A cake to weather a storm, from Cathie Pelletier’s ‘Northeaster’
This frugal, old-fashioned Blueberry Cake with Nutmeg Sauce appears in her new book about Mainers in the blizzard of 1952.
One last piece of advice: Be flexible
Seasonal, local, organic, etc. But the key lesson columnist Christine Burns Rudalevige has to convey about being a sustainable cook and eater? Stay flexible.
Can ChatGPT help Maine food professionals save time?
We tested the chatbot’s knowledge of the local food scene and got results that ranged from boring to blatantly wrong to borderline genius.
Try your hand at low-and-slow smoky BBQ this summer
A cooking process that seems simple and straightforward actually requires finesse. Barbecue experts from Terlingua and Noble Barbecue explain the lessons they learned through experience.