It’s a simple process, but choices along the way can help you find a signature recipe.
Recipes
A little leftover mashed potatoes can go a long way in Nonna’s gnocchi
Flour and egg can stretch a cup of Thanksgiving spuds into enough pasta for a full meal.
A hand pie is just one way to thank the farmers who lend you their hands
Buying local products is another way to show your appreciation for all the work they do.
Green Plate Special: Your used wine corks can be transformed into useful new products
Locally, two places will accept them, from individuals and businesses, so they can be reused.
Green Plate Special: A new app helps prevent waste at small local food businesses
Meanwhile, app users score some terrific food at bargain prices.
Bloody good: Stephen King-themed cookbook blends delicious, dreary into fearsome froth
In ‘Castle Rock Kitchen,’ released this month by Ten Speed Press, a cookbook author from New Brunswick and a Maine photographer let their creative juices splatter.
Baking star with Maine roots brings bread-making home in ‘Flour Power’
Naples native Tara Jensen, whose career was inspired by bakers in Bar Harbor, now has her own following.
Green Plate Special: 13 tips for cooking in a chilly kitchen
Here are some tricks to prepare ingredients and equipment before cooking begins.
Green Plate Special: Save the Jacob’s Cattle heirloom bean!
Given that they are a ‘fine eating bean’ – rich, nutty, dense, meaty and fragrant – this assignment is a cinch.
Let the whole animal butchers who are flourishing in Maine introduce you to something new
Chat with your local butcher and head home with a ‘poodle cut,’ an ‘oyster,’ a ‘spider steak’ or one of several other unconventional cuts newly available here.