It turns out you don’t need a deluxe Wolf or Bertazzoni stove to make first-rate dinners and desserts.
Baking
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Appetite for bagels and schmear is on the rise in Sebago-land
Colby grad ditches desk job to work with his hands, and the result is highly edible.
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Hop the globe with these Easter food traditions
Mainers of varied backgrounds share memories and stories of the family dishes that signal Easter to them.
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Home Plates: A foolproof bread helped 1 family get through the pandemic
Four years ago, a home cook in Gray added this bread to her repertoire. It’s versatile, fast and ‘generally delicious.’
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Home Plates: A home cook and bread baker ponders if baking is art or science
Both, Lindsay Porto concludes, and her Anadama bread is delicious proof.
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Home Plates: The tale of Snow the Goat and the Gingerbread Cookies
The day a hungry, adventurous goat helped himself to a plate of cookies.
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Here we come a-brambling
The Irish countryside is awash in blackberries, which Irish bakers have cleverly learned to pair with apples.
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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.
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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.
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From A to Z, how to store the excess summer produce you just couldn’t resist
Faced with an overflowing summer farmers market, who can say no? Certainly not our columnist. The answer to over-indulging: Good storage.