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  • Asian-Influenced Scallop Amuse-Bouche

    Asian-Influenced Scallop Amuse-Bouche

    The Maine scallop season closes this week so I made sure I got a share of the last catch from the Port Clyde Fresh Catch rep at the Portland Farmers' ...

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  • Baba Ganoush

    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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  • Braised Cabbage with Apples, Onions and Caraway
    New and Improved!

    Braised Cabbage with Apples, Onions and Caraway <br> New and Improved!

    I posted a version of this recipe over four years ago, on January 30, 2006. In that post I said: "This simple preparation is one of the longest runnin...

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  • Broccoli Rabe Pancakes

    Broccoli Rabe Pancakes

    Broccoli rabe (also called broccoli raab or rapini) appears on our table very frequently – usually in a very traditional form (steamed with chicken br...

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  • Cauliflower with Yellow Lentils and Peas

    Cauliflower with Yellow Lentils and Peas

    Cauliflower is a wonder food, and the same is true for lentils, but steamed cauliflower and cups of lentils can get boring fast. This preparation, fai...

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  • Celeriac Coleslaw

    Celeriac Coleslaw

    We like to cook with local produce, but in late winter and early spring here in Maine the options dwindle and we need some variation. Even though gree...

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  • Chicken Noodle Soup, Vietnamese-Style (Pho Ga)

    Chicken Noodle Soup, Vietnamese-Style (Pho Ga)

    Pho ga – Vietnamese chicken soup – is one of those famous dishes for which you can easily find thousands of slightly different recipes. This adaptatio...

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  • Chicken with Cauliflower Rice

    Chicken with Cauliflower Rice

    A search of my favorite food blogs the other day for a new idea for cauliflower turned up the idea of cauliflower "rice" – shredded cauliflower used t...

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  • Ciabatta - Crusty Italian-Style Bread

    Ciabatta - Crusty Italian-Style Bread

    I love good bread and I've been baking my own my whole adult life – although living in Portland one gets spoiled by the excellent breads available fro...

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  • Cipollini Onions Roasted with Balsamic Vinegar and Honey

    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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  • Cream of Asparagus Soup with Tomato-Basil Coulis

    Cream of Asparagus Soup with Tomato-Basil Coulis

    I have a special connection with fresh, local asparagus. My mother, who was raised in a faraway time (1920's and 30's) in a rural village in Ohio, was...

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  • Fiddleheads

    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

    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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  • Fresh Tomato-Basil Dipping Sauce

    Fresh Tomato-Basil Dipping Sauce

    This tasty and light tomato dipping sauce recipe has long been a favorite for entertaining at our house. It's quick, looks great and, when served with...

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  • Grilled Baby Artichokes

    Grilled Baby Artichokes

    We love artichokes – even though they're hardly a local product here in Maine – but preparing them is a pain, so when I can get baby artichokes I alwa...

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  • Grilled Baby Vidalia Onions

    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

    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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  • Grilled Marinated Tofu with Wilted Tatsoi

    Grilled Marinated Tofu with Wilted Tatsoi

    Greenhouse farming is booming here in Maine, and one of the farmers we follow just brought in a winter crop of tatsoi. Also called spoon mustard, this...

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  • Haddock Fillets with Cranberry-Ginger Butter Sauce

    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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  • Healthy Honey Whole Wheat Bread

    Healthy Honey Whole Wheat Bread

    This bread is an attempt to recover a recipe I loved and lost. For many years I made this bread at least once a week, to the point where I'd memorized...

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  • Hearty Lentil Stew with Sausage and Broccoli

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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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  • Maine Shrimp with Lemon-Ginger Sauce

    Maine Shrimp with Lemon-Ginger Sauce

    It's last call for Maine shrimp for this year so I grabbed one more bag of these beauties. The season legally extends until the end of May but Mother ...

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  • Monkfish with Mint/Honey Reduction Sauce

    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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  • Moroccan Fish Tagine with Quinoa and Olives

    Moroccan Fish Tagine with Quinoa and Olives

    As regular Stephencooks readers know, I'm always looking for ways to take advantage of the fresh seafood that arrives every day at the docks here in P...

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  • New Year's Good Luck: Black-Eyed Pea Soup

    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

    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

    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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  • Pan-Roasted Duck Breast with Fig-Shallot Gastrique

    Pan-Roasted Duck Breast with Fig-Shallot Gastrique

    My daughter and I, some years ago, shared a wonderful dinner in Paris at Allard, the venerable Left Bank bistro on Rue l'Eperon in the Sixth Arrondiss...

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  • Poached Chicken

    Poached Chicken

    Today, a confession and a little rant. The confession: until recently when we''ve been busy we've given in to the "Rotisserie Chicken" option from the...

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  • Poached Haddock Fillet with Apple and Tomato

    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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  • Quinoa with Chicken, Arugula and Roasted Tomatoes

    Quinoa with Chicken, Arugula and Roasted Tomatoes

    Regular readers may have noticed that I'm going through a little infatuation with quinoa lately. It's quick-cooking, light-feeling and brings an inter...

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  • Roasted Cauliflower with Garam Masala

    Roasted Cauliflower with Garam Masala

    This simple side dish is extremely popular in our house. Not only is the subtle spice of the garam masala a nice change of pace, but also we love the ...

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  • Roasted Cauliflower with Tomato, Garlic and Basil

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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 Salmon Terrine

    Smoked Salmon Terrine

    This smoked salmon dish is a quick and easy crowd-pleaser...As regular readers know, I'm lucky to live down the road from the Ducktrap River smokehous...

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  • Smoked Shrimp and Calamari Salad

    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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  • Spaghetti Squash and Shrimp with Lemongrass-Peanut Sauce

    Spaghetti Squash and Shrimp with Lemongrass-Peanut Sauce

    Spaghetti squash is a little miracle of a food: low in calories, low in carbs, high on the food satisfaction index, easy to prepare and adaptable to a...

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  • Spanish-style Fish Stew

    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

    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

    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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