Sweet and savory pita toasts are also pretty to look at.
Food
Food, dining and restaurant news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Cookbook review: ‘Beer Bites: Tasty Recipes and Perfect Pairings for Beer Lovers’
Tiny, delicious burgers go quite nicely with a dry Irish stout, but several of the recipes are intimidating.
Maine’s 16 most memorable places to eat in 2016, from burgers to octopus
Critic Andrew Ross shares the meals, drinks, restaurants and moments that stuck with him this year, for better or for worse.
More consumers ignoring marketing, looking at food ingredients
Front-of-package claims such as ‘low-fat’ are starting to lose their attraction, Nielsen data show.
Let salmon swim in green salsa for brighter flavor
Easy homemade tortilla chips top off a refreshingly different take on the fish.
‘The Saffron Tales: Recipes from the Persian Kitchen’ is a first-rate cookbook
Starting with the opening dedication, the book surprises and delights.
Butterscotch pie is a secret crowd pleaser
Even chocoholics admit to a craving for desserts with that browned butter flavor.
Three soup recipes, distinct in flavor, will bring you comfort
At its most elemental level, soup is just water with a bunch of other stuff cooked in it. And that is what makes it so exciting.
Key to cooking dried beans is to avoid conventional salting wisdom
It turns out the “no salt” thing is just a long-lasting and widely held myth.
Here’s the French toast you’ll want to serve on Christmas morning
Nancy Cerny learned how to make the family favorite from a French chef when she was just 12 years old.