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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 »
Opening: Sista’s BBQ
When “The Udder Place,” the purple-painted drive-through coffee shop in Brunswick with the rooftop sculpture of an enormous fiberglass anthropomorphized cartoon cow bathing itself in a giant coffee… 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 »
Today’s Sandwich: Ultimate Angus Philly (Arby’s)
Today’s sandwich is the “Ultimate Angus Philly” from Arby’s. According to the website, it combines Arby’s “famous toasted sub roll…piled high with thinly sliced Angus beef. [We] season… 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 »
Schnitzel-wich with Garlic Butter and Spicy Relish
Because I seem to have taken on a subconscious quest to become some sort of 300 pound guy, today I drizzled hot butter onto pan-fried baby cow, slapped… Read More »
