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Maine Shrimp
“But how did you stand the winters?” Anyone who’s lived in Maine year round and now doesn’t will be familiar with this question. There are lots of good answers but right now all I can think of is...
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About That Bird – Turkey Tip Time Again
Roughly 15 years ago I wrote a piece for Yankee magazine titled something like “ The Only Roast Turkey Recipe You Will Ever Need.” Still substantially true, should you be the type who keeps clippings...
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Still Loving the Leftovers – In Classic Fashion
Even though we’ve had three days of feasting: two dinners and two lunches at our house, one dinner in town with another branch of the family. Local Thanksgiving bouquet – the very last chrysanthemums...
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Easy Party Appetizer – Good Old Tea Leaf Eggs
Visiting Ilana yesterday, bringing a little box of belated pepparkakor chickens and some apples, not expecting anything in return but there was a carton of beautiful eggs. (Spring is supposed to mark...
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Talk About Good! Chicken and Avocado Salad Lafayette Style, for the Super Bowl
That would be Lafayette, Louisiana, not Lafayette, Indiana. The style would be that of the city’s Junior League, circa1967, and Talk About Good! would be the title of said Junior League’s classic...
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Great Seafood Alert: Maine Shrimp (Pandalus Borealis)
Spicy Messy Coconut Shrimp – Thai(ish) fast food from Maine Good News! Maine shrimp (Pandalus borealis), is starting to get around. Delicious, affordable, wonder of wonders sustainable, the only thing...
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Maine Crab and Lobster (Mushroom) Cakes – with Cilantro Nectarine Mayonnaise
Maine crab and lobster mushrooms inside that crunchy crust At the risk of jinxing things I have to say this is shaping up as a boffo mushroom year (in Midcoast Maine, anyway.) We haven’t had much...
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Cooking Heritage Turkey For the Thanksgiving Feast
A genuine heirloom (i.e. passed down through generations) turkey: my mother’s gravy boat. It has a matching ceramic ladle that broke about 15 years ago and has been in storage awaiting repair ever...
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After the Storm(s): Choosing – and Cooking – the Holiday Turkey
The turkey gets transferred to a cookie sheet and put in a VERY low oven to rest while I make the gravy. (Not wise to put it on the antique ironstone serving platter until the last minute.) Ok, not...
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The Leftover Turkey List – Lucky Thirteen
This is rosa ‘Dr. Huey.’ He has absolutely nothing to do with turkey, leftover or otherwise. I’ve just had it with looking at food for a while. These suggestions are offered just in case you are like...
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