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Poutine Potato Skins

by Jillian Bedell October 14, 2011

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. The potato is my least favorite tuber, not high on my list of fun foods to consume. As a living human American in the late 1980′s, I [...]

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Chile Relleno

by Jillian Bedell October 5, 2011

Deep Fried Cheese. Are there three better words in the English language? It’s so tidy, yet so infinite. Five years ago I moved to Mexico not really interested in Mexican food. All I had really known was the New England version of TexMex as served at Margaritas and Su Casa on the Post Road in [...]

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The Canned “Easy Cheese” Trick

by Malcolm Bedell September 29, 2011

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Today’s Sandwich: Grace Potter Panini (The Barn Door Cafe and Bakery)

by Jillian Bedell September 21, 2011

Today’s sandwich is the “Grace Potter Panini” from the Barn Door Cafe and Bakery in Topsham. It combines apple slices, pepper jelly, pepper jack, cheddar cheese and caramelized onions, pressed between two slices of country bread. Location: 4 Bowdoin Mill Island (at the Frank Mill Bridge) Price: $6.95 Notes: The Grace Potter was one of [...]

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Classics: French Onion Soup

by Jillian Bedell September 13, 2011

When I was an only child, I often was out and about with my parents and their friends. I listened to their secrets and laughter, taking mental notes. I stayed up late and drank Shirley Temples with extra cherries. I noshed on fried calamari, chicken teriyaki, potato skins and melty, salty French onion soup. I [...]

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The Cheese Iron

by Jillian Bedell July 28, 2011

This is not your lunchbox’s ham and cheese. Smoky ham, taleggio, sweet chutney and basil, grilled on crusty baguette. This is the sandwich I have been wanting all year, maybe all my life. It is one of those rare instances where every ingredient is perfect in itself, in proportion and combination to create a sandwich [...]

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Enfrijoladas de Pollo

by Malcolm Bedell June 21, 2011

At their most simple, enfrijoladas are bean-dipped corn tortillas filled with cheese, topped with more cheese, and baked. They’re a light, vegetarian staple of Mexican cooking, particularly in the Oaxaca region. Our enfrijoladas, however, are a copy of a breakfast dish served at Carboncitos in Playa del Carmen. Their version starts the same way, with [...]

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Beer & Bison Burgers with Garlic Pub Cheese and Bacon & Egg Potato Salad

by Malcolm Bedell May 30, 2011

Ground bison can be shaped into burgers and grilled just like ground beef, but the result is a substantially looser, leaner burger, much lower in fat than its ground-beef cousin. On a hot grill, bison burgers have a tendency to fall apart; we use rolled oats to bind the patties with the beer just a [...]

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The Joy of Failing

by Jillian Bedell May 17, 2011

Can a cookbook be fallible? Or are they perfect instruments, only failing in the hands of an inept chef? This is the question I faced today, as I stared into the unforgiving oven, at my Puffed Cheese with Mushrooms on Toast, which were decidedly un-puffed and unappealing. As it happens, the toasts were still sort [...]

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America! Presents: Pillsbury Toaster Scrambles

by Malcolm Bedell May 13, 2011

Because I am currently eating somewhere between four and forty meals per day, it may come as some surprise to hear that I was a bit of a finicky breakfast-eater, as a young man. I insisted that eating in the morning gave me a stomachache (because clearly, at seven years old, I was already a [...]

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