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Chinese New Year: General Tso’s Chicken

by Malcolm Bedell January 6, 2012

It’s difficult to imagine that anyone in China has ever eaten anything even remotely resembling General Tso’s Chicken. Even the origins of the dish are a little murky. Ostensibly a delicacy with origins in the Hunan province (though Hunan cuisine doesn’t typically feature very much sweetness, opting instead for sour flavors), and named after General [...]

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Chinese New Year: Chicken and Broccoli

by Jillian Bedell January 3, 2012

Here’s what I love about chicken and broccoli: everything. I love that it’s glossy and viscous. I love eating it on the couch, straight from the takeout container, while watching movies on TV that you own on DVD. I love eating it at the mall off a plastic tray in the middle of an acoustically [...]

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How to Make Butter Chicken

by Malcolm Bedell November 16, 2011

When someone mentions “classic Maine cuisine,” my mind immediately leaps to big, steaming copper pots overflowing with creamy saag paneer, yogurt-marinated blackened chicken skewers cooking in hot clay ovens, sweet, fruity chutneys, and thick vindaloos so spicy that they blow the top of your head off. Wait, that’s not right. How about the fact that [...]

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Pipian Verde (Shredded Chicken with Green Mole)

by Malcolm Bedell November 1, 2011

When we first moved to Mexico, we had no plan, after our first two nights staying in a hotel in Merida. We’d be able to find a more permanent place to live, we thought, and two days seemed like plenty of time to square that away. We moved to an apartment in a long-term residential [...]

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Opening: Sista’s BBQ

by Malcolm Bedell October 26, 2011

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 cup finally closed its doors and hung a “for rent” sign in the window, I wondered what new business could possibly fill such a specialized space. Another [...]

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Chick-fil-A Copycat Chicken Sandwiches

by Malcolm Bedell October 7, 2011

Chick-fil-A, that Southern chain of fried chicken sandwich restaurants, has long been something of a mystery to me. Truett Cathy, the founder of the Georgia-based chain, claims to have invented the chicken sandwich, though I doubt that he was the first person to think to put chicken in between two slices of bread. The fans [...]

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Granny’s Burritos

by Malcolm Bedell September 28, 2011

I’m probably one of the few people in the area that doesn’t have a Granny’s Burrito-related anecdote. The fact is, I never ate at one of the original Granny’s locations, which first set up shop in 1995. Granny’s would hop around town several times, including locations in the Old Port, downtown, and flung out towards [...]

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Curry Marinated Chicken Skewers with Homemade Tomato Dill Tzatziki

by Jillian Bedell August 4, 2011

Seventy-two degree afternoons with a light breeze and a few fluffy, white clouds passing overhead. This is why we love living in Maine in the summer. And it’s why the ability to sit outside on a slate patio, looking at the grass and birds and trees, grilling meat over an open flame for our evening [...]

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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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Thai Chicken Noodle Soup

by Jillian Bedell May 20, 2011

Because it’s been raining for one hundred and sixty-eight hours and the end of times is imminent, today we need soup. And because I don’t get to go to Ivy Noodle on Sunday with my roadtripping collaborator and his northbound mom, I started searching for soups with a Chinese/Thai flavor profile. Specfically, the chicken curry [...]

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