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Classics: Spicy Haddock Fish Cakes

by Malcolm Bedell March 8, 2012

The temperature rose to nearly 60 degrees here today, which is quite unusual for early March in Maine. Then again, it’s been an unusually mild Winter all the way around, with just a few snowfalls timed perfectly to coordinate with the holidays. It certainly wasn’t the Winter of my youth, where the ground froze at [...]

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Moody’s Diner

by Malcolm Bedell February 29, 2012

Ask anyone from away about iconic Maine road food, and the conversation will turn, inevitably, to Moody’s Diner in Waldoboro. Part of the reason for the legendary diner’s fame is a simple matter of location; the plum US Route 1 location means that nearly every single tourist on their way up the coast to attend [...]

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Morse’s Lobster Shack

by Malcolm Bedell September 9, 2011

It never would occur to me to enjoy a full lobster dinner while seated behind the wheel of my car. It seems like breaking open shellfish and letting the briney liquids explode all over your dashboard, is only something you would do to a car belonging to your worst enemy. And why would your worst [...]

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The Portland Lobster Company

by Jillian Bedell August 8, 2011

On a muggy, overcast August afternoon, spitting mist and foggy, Commercial Street is bustling with groups of twos and fours. We were headed to the Portland Lobster Company, on a plum assignment, research for our part of the lobster roll roundup. Some locals don’t care for the Portland Lobster Company, but I still consider myself [...]

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Atlantic Baja-Style Fish Tacos

by Jillian Bedell July 19, 2011

We recently received a request from a landlocked friend somewhere in the mysterious Midwest, desperate for a good fish taco recipe. While we have certainly eaten fish tacos and made fish tacos (next time we’re on the subject, we’ll tell you more about the super-pink tuna and wasabi mayo version we crafted once), where we [...]

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The Lobster Shack at Two Lights

by Jillian Bedell July 5, 2011

The Lobster Shack at Two Lights feels idyllic. As you ascend the stone steps, sided white buildings come into view, and picnic tables perched between lighthouses, metal sculptures spinning in the wind, and the ocean, wide and blue, spraying the driftwood rock. We went for the first time on the Fourth Whoosh! of Baroom! July. [...]

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Haddock Ragout with Mussels

by Jillian Bedell January 19, 2011

There was only one cookbook in our kitchen cupboard in my childhood home on Partridge Lane. A whiteplastic, spiralbound Junior Women’s Club collection, with typewriter written recipes and mimeographed pages, tattered and stained and dog-eared. My mother was not a good cook. Her most famous and fondly-remembered dishes including the monochromatic chicken in white sauce, [...]

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Classics: Haddock Chowder

by Jillian Bedell November 3, 2010

The first time I had haddock chowder was on a Christmas trip home to New England whilst we were living in Mexico. Malcolm and I stumbled into a room overlooking the snow-spackled golf course at the edge of the Penobscot Bay at the Samoset Resort in Rockport. It was a divine break from the heat [...]

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Today’s Sandwich: Leftover Fried Haddock (Homemade)

by Malcolm Bedell September 9, 2010

While I love a hot, fresh, fried haddock sandwich as much as the next guy (I’m no weirdo), a part of me likes my leftover, “next-day” version even better. Today’s sandwich combines leftover cold fried haddock, mesclun greens, and tartar sauce on a Portuguese roll. Overall, it’s not unlike a really, really chunky and flaky [...]

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