From Away

Grab & Go Newtons

by Jillian Bedell April 22, 2013

When the weather is fine, I break out the jogging stroller (that’s just a euphemism; no one is actually running with these…right?) and we walk all over the place. I love where we live, on a quiet looped street backed by woods all around the neighborhood, but within fifteen minutes of our town’s Main Street. [...]

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Deep-Fried Buttermilk Doughnut Holes with Cinnamon and Sugar

by Jillian Bedell April 18, 2013

In August, in my hometown, every year there is a fair. And while I never thought so at the time, I realize now, that this event, along with so much of that shoreline suburb was idyllic, and my childhood firmly set in happy times. Just past the height of summer, when electric July gives way [...]

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How to Make Butter

by Jillian Bedell April 17, 2013

I’ve always wished I’d lived in another era. Which is typical, I realize now, and also kind of a cop-out. Like, I would have been so much better at being a pioneer, or a flapper, or a patrician, or a peasant, or a writer correspondent in the Spanish civil war. Instead of just getting a [...]

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Bodum BISTRO Santoku Knife and Mixing Bowl GIVEAWAY!

by Malcolm Bedell April 16, 2013

As we’ve mentioned on the site before, we don’t have a ton of fancy cooking tools. We seem to have about 60 wooden spoons, some scratched up skillets from T.J. Maxx that at some point purportedly had nonstick properties but are now just slowly poisoning us with flecks of peeling Teflon coating, and a set [...]

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Indonesian Lamb Rendang

by Malcolm Bedell April 15, 2013

Rendang must be in my bloodstream, I think, a part of some core neural bit of circuitry that was formed when my parents took me to live in Singapore as a baby. While my parents left me outside to lounge in the tropical heat with my hired Amah, she must have been secretly spoon-feeding me [...]

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Classics: Peanut Butter Buckeyes

by Malcolm Bedell April 12, 2013

My childhood fascination with truancy wasn’t particularly unusual, I don’t think, though I may have come to it a little sooner than most. I was in just the sixth grade, living in the US Virgin Islands, when I discovered the pure thrill and joy of skipping school. Each day, I would take a ferry from [...]

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Today’s Sandwich: Smoked Turkey with Wasabi Mayo and Brie (Dot’s Market)

by Jillian Bedell April 11, 2013

Today’s sandwich is the Smoked Turkey with Wasabi Mayo and Brie from Dot’s Market in Lincolnville. It combines juicy smoked turkey, wasabi mayonnaise, brie, and grated carrots on country white bread. Location: 2457 Atlantic Highway (Rt 1), Lincolnville Price: $7.50 Notes: I always notice Dot’s on the right side of Route 1 in Lincolnville, as [...]

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How to Make Flour Tortillas

by Jillian Bedell April 10, 2013

Every pueblo in Mexico, no matter how small, has at least one tortilleria. Chelem, the village where we lived, was reduced to a seaside shantytown when it wasn’t tourist season: sandy, hot, windy, strange, barren, and colorful. Our tortilla shop was on the square, a green concrete room with a dirt floor, and ancient ladies [...]

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Homemade Oreo Cookies

by Jillian Bedell April 9, 2013

Is it possible for a facsimile to be as good as the real thing? What if the source, what you’re copying, is packaged in plastic, processed, and shelf-stable? But it’s also iconic, nostalgic, a specific chemical combination that affects us profoundly through every sense? The Oreo is one of the most recognizable cookies in American [...]

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Lobster Noodle with Hot and Spicy Scallion Butter

by Jillian Bedell April 8, 2013

I almost didn’t get the lobster. It wasn’t cheap. And I was all, dammit, I live in Rockland, Maine! I should just wade into the ocean and pull one out heroically with my bare hands. Which is probably illegal. And cold. And impossible. And icky, considering I can’t even hold a live grocery store lobster [...]

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