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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' ...
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...
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...
Broccoli rabe (also called broccoli raab or rapini) appears on our table very frequently – usually in a very traditional form (steamed with chicken br...
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...
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...
Pho ga – Vietnamese chicken soup – is one of those famous dishes for which you can easily find thousands of slightly different recipes. This adaptatio...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
This recipe – which has the power to convert even the most militant cauliflower-resister – was developed by transposing an old favorite Indian recipe ...
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...
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...
When you think of Maine you think of lobster. Shore dinners, lobster bakes, clambakes (which actually center on the lobster), lobster docks and lobste...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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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