Blue Hubbard Squash Soup
The Blue Hubbard is a shabby chic squash, a Gothic Cinderella gourd. It’s gorgeous. Its exterior is mostly smooth with creamy custardish flesh. Last year I bought them… Read More »
Baked Apple with Ginger Cookie and Whiskey Whipped Cream
Today’s dessert is a bit of a hodgepodge. It’s seasonal, it’s boozy, and it’s a delight for your mouth. You’re gonna love it. It started with an apple…. Read More »
Ribollita
Everything you need to know, is in the name. Ribollita is unselfconsciously rustic, simple, and satisfying. In short, everything we like in a neighborhood restaurant. This never was… Read More »
Rigatoni with Roasted Peppers and Sausage
Right now, in my kitchen, there is sauce bubbling on the stove. And it is rich and good. The cutting board is green with parsley and basil, ready… Read More »
Bombay Mahal
I love living in Topsham. It combines pastoral beauty with small town convenience, and Portland is thirty minutes away. We have goats, our neighbors have chickens, there’s a… Read More »
Baking with Fresh Pumpkin
Sometimes I feel as if I’m unlearning fifty years of received wisdom. On the very rare occasion I wanted to cook or bake with pumpkin, I always reached… Read More »
Poutine Potato Skins
The conclusion and culmination of one week writing about Aroostook, the careful and colorful summary of a mere one night spent in Aroostook, is this: Poutine Potato Skins…. Read More »
