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Ingredients & Recipes: Low Fat
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Baba Ganoush
Baba ganoush is everywhere but it's rarely satisfying if you've had the real thing. I was fortunate to have a Lebanese-American friend a while ago who...
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Cipollini Onions Roasted with Balsamic Vinegar and Honey
Cipollini onions have become a fall favorite in our house over the last few years, since I first encountered them in a jar at the antipasti counter at...
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Fiddleheads
Fiddleheads are one of a rapidly dwindling list of foods harvested or gathered in the wild, instead of produced by the agricultural industry. Fresh be...
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Fish Stew with Shrimp, Cod, Clams and Sausage
I love fish stews of all types but there's one problem I'd never solved until now: when I use white fish in the stew it tends to fall apart and get lo...
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Grilled Baby Vidalia Onions
I've been on an onion binge lately...and there's more to come. These beautiful baby vidalia's turned up in the market last week and I jumped on them. ...
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Grilled Halibut with Crab Sauce
Halibut is an interesting fish in that it offers both big benefits and big challenges to the creative cook. The benefits are that it's a big flatfish ...
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Haddock Fillets with Cranberry-Ginger Butter Sauce
This dish is a child of the holiday season. I don't usually have dried cranberries and crystallized ginger slices in the pantry, but last week I did s...
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Hearty Lentil Stew with Sausage and Broccoli
We love this dish, with its zesty Italian flavor, and we love how the nutrition numbers fit so well in our glucose- and weight-control plans! And did ...
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Homemade Applesauce
This quick and tasty applesauce recipe has become a standbye in our house from September to early November. We love it on our oatmeal in the morning ...
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Irish Brown Bread
A few years ago we spent a week at the Assolas Country House, an inn in the village of Kanturk, County Cork, Ireland. Every day we had a traditional I...
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Lobster / Shrimp Broth
This lobster/shrimp broth is an important ingredient in my kitchen and I almost always have several containers of it on hand in the freezer. It provid...
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Low Carb Lemon Chicken
SSkinless boneless chicken breasts -- or thighs, if well-trimmed of fat -- always work very well for a healthy diet, whether you're looking to control...
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Maine Shrimp Boil
This is the simplest and probably the most popular way to cook and eat Maine shrimp: boil them in salted and herb-perfumed water and just set them out...
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Maine Shrimp Spring Rolls
We're always looking for a new way to use our beloved Maine shrimp. Thankfully, the season this year goes until May 29 so I've got plenty of time to c...
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Monkfish with Mint/Honey Reduction Sauce
I stopped by Free Range Fish Market again in Portland and had a hard time chosing between local line-caught halibut, some more huge diver scallops or ...
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New Year's Good Luck: Black-Eyed Pea Soup
I grew up in the Midwest (Ohio and Michigan) and have lived my whole adult life in the Northeast so until Jenny moved south I never heard of the South...
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Oxtail Soup
Nothing fancy here: just an heirloom preparation that qualifies both as comfort food and as food that's good for you. The comfort comes from the deepl...
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Oysters Rockefeller Bites
There are about as many recipes for oysters Rockefeller as there are varieties of oyster. Most include bread crumbs, cheese, butter, cream or some com...
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Poached Haddock Fillet with Apple and Tomato
Where I come from (Maine), fillets of delicate white fish like cod, hake, haddock or flounder are often the freshest of the local catch, so when I'm b...
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Roasted Cauliflower with Tomato, Garlic and Basil
This recipe – which has the power to convert even the most militant cauliflower-resister – was developed by transposing an old favorite Indian recipe ...
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Rosemary Rutabaga Fries
Now that we all know what rutabaga is, we can think about all the wonderful things we can do with it. These "fries," which are actually baked, are a t...
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Salad of Black Radishes and Shrimp
This simple summer salad – a slice of tomato, a ring of radish slices and a tumble of shrimp – is a great combination for the mouth. The insistent no...
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Seafood Stew Recipe with Lobster, Scallops and Clams
When you think of Maine you think of lobster. Shore dinners, lobster bakes, clambakes (which actually center on the lobster), lobster docks and lobste...
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Seared Swordfish with Pasta all'Aglio e Olio
Summer is the time for swordfish in New England, as the fish move northward and the fishing fleet brings fresh fish to our local docks. Grilling it is...
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Shredded Brussels Sprouts with Fresh Herbs
In some of my other sprouts recipes I add in richness, texture and flavor with nuts or bacon but this one is pretty much sprouts forward, with complem...
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Smoked Shrimp and Calamari Salad
There are many satisfying ways to serve smoked seafood. This is one of my favorites is this easy, refreshing and addictive salad. A good choice for a ...
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Spanish-style Fish Stew
There are dozens of recipes for fish soups and stews along these lines. This one that I've adapted over the years from more complex (and authentic) re...
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Spicy Coleslaw
One day about 15 years ago I was making coleslaw and I had the bright idea to add a spicy sauce I'd made for another dish to a conventional coleslaw r...
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Spicy Daikon Radish
What to do with those beautiful but huge daikon radishes in the store? Shredded raw for a salad, cut in sticks and cooked for a soup -– of course. But...
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Steamed Broccoli
Broccoli appears on our table at least once a week. Guests subjected to this are often surprised at how much they like it so I must be doing something...
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Strawberry Rhubarb Cobbler
One of the tricks for getting through the harsh winters we have here in Maine is to fill our freezers with harvest bounty in summer, when our farmers'...
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Stuffed Acorn Squash
The farmers' markets here in Maine are full of squash and pumpkin just now so it seemed right to be thinking about stuffed acorn sqaush this week. I u...
