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Today’s Sandwich: California Club with Chipotle Mayo (Homemade)

by Malcolm Bedell February 20, 2013

Today’s sandwich is the “California Club with Chipotle Mayo.” It combines turkey, Swiss cheese, bacon, spinach, tomato, avocado, a fried egg, and chipotle mayonnaise on three slices of toasted white bread. Notes: About ten years ago, one of my closest friends and I started parting ways professionally. Though we had started working for the same [...]

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Seared Scallop BLT with Candied Maple Bacon

by Jillian Bedell January 7, 2013

I don’t have an anecdote about bacon-wrapped scallops. I do have a bacon-wrapped shrimp anecdote, so I am going to tell that and then shoehorn scallops in at the end. Have you ever tried to shoehorn a scallop? Not as easy as one might think. I did recently enjoy some fried scallops at Bill’s Seafood [...]

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Bacon & Mushroom Beef Chili

by Malcolm Bedell December 18, 2012

Chili, made well, is serious business. You can’t just throw a pound of 80/20 ground beef, a can of tomatoes, and a can of beans into a slow-cooker, wait an hour, spoon the resulting bucket of beef slurry into a bowl, and call it a day. The best chili depends on the slow, careful stacking [...]

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Brown Ale, Cheddar, and Bacon Mac & Cheese

by Malcolm Bedell October 8, 2012

Because you’ve gotta get started gaining the winter weight sooner or later, don’t you? Last night’s temperature drop after an unseasonably warm October here in Maine got me thinking wistfully about the Brown Ale and Cheddar Soup I made last year, a hearty, warming concoction of sharp cheddar cheese and nutty brown ale. Add a [...]

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Today’s Sandwich: Sandwich Artist’s Tuna & Bacon (Homemade)

by Malcolm Bedell October 3, 2012

Today’s sandwich is the “Sandwich Artist’s Tuna & Bacon.” It combines tuna salad, lettuce, tomato, pickles, onion, and pepperocini on a 12 inch sandwich roll. Notes: For a brief period in 1994, I had someone on the inside at the newly-opened Rockland branch of the Subway chain of sandwich restaurants, in the form of my [...]

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Clams Casino

by Malcolm Bedell September 24, 2012

Growing up in Maine, I was used to pretty simple seafood preparations. In Maine (and particularly in the 1980s), most of the clams, mussels, and shrimp my family cooked at home was of the “steamed” or “fried” variety. I grew to think of most shellfish not as an ingredient to be combined with other things [...]

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Bacon-Cheddar Zucchini Bread

by Jillian Bedell August 17, 2012

Armloads of zucchini appear on our doorstep through August, from whom we’ll never know. Small town summer life is idyllic here in Maine. I want to bake this quick bread for breakfast with a house full of guests. Serve it with scrambled eggs, freshly snipped chives, and chopped tomatoes. It’s amazing warm right out of [...]

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Today’s Sandwich: Bacon Jam, Arugula, and Pear Grilled Cheese (Homemade)

by Malcolm Bedell August 8, 2012

Notes: Readers of yesterday’s post on making homemade bacon jam probably fall into one of two categories. For some of you, it was love at first sight, you rushed off to the store to buy the ingredients, cooked up a pot of bacon jam, sat down at the table, and ate the entire bowl with a spoon, [...]

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Homemade Bacon Jam

by Malcolm Bedell August 7, 2012

With the economy circling the drain, home canning and preservation has seen a huge revival in the last few years. And while I’m all for homemade jellies and jams, I can’t help but notice that they usually are made with worthless, inedible fruit. After storming around the kitchen in a blind rage, throwing all of [...]

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Orecchiette with Yellow Squash, Corn and Bacon

by Jillian Bedell July 30, 2012

It was the summer before seventh grade. I had just made my Clinton Town Hall stage debut as Moth in a professional production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I had a crush on blond Lysander and longed to be as elegant as the dancer who played Titania. After the last performance a cast party was held [...]

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