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Golden Deep-Fried Apple Fritters

by Jillian Bedell September 18, 2012

Late Sunday afternoon we went apple picking at Hope Orchards. With a warm sun on our backs and a crisp chill in the air, it was an idyllic hour of September. We put the baby in a backpack and went walking up and down between the trees, spying ripe fruit against a backdrop of bright [...]

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Chilled Tomato Vodka Soup with Pesto Cream

by Jillian Bedell August 14, 2012

There’s something so southern and sultry about spicy tomato paired with vodka. I want to take a bath in the stuff. In a claw foot tub on a lazy porch under a tree draped in Spanish moss. This chilled soup is perfect for the steamy weather we’ve been having here in Maine. Now, you’re not [...]

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Sweet Potato Muffins

Sweet Potato Muffins

by Jillian Bedell August 1, 2012

Now is the time of year when visiting hordes of tourists are pouring into Maine, crossing the Piscataqua and climbing ever higher up I-95. And who can blame them? The days are long and green with lots of sunshine, sweet air, a cool breeze and gorgeous vistas of farmland, hills and sea. Winding roads take [...]

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Reading: Susan Feniger’s Street Food

by Jillian Bedell June 11, 2012

Street food is enjoying its place in the sun right now, here, there, and everywhere, it seems. And, so too, should the new cookbook – her sixth – by Susan Feniger, based on recipes developed in her LA restaurant, Street. The book is well organized into chapters beginning with starters and ending, naturally with sweets and drinks. [...]

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Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

by Jillian Bedell May 25, 2012

This carrot cake recipe is a keeper. I baked it for Malcolm’s birthday, because carrot cake is his favorite. Three cheers for him! For he’s a jolly good fellow, for he’s a jolly good fellow, for he’s a jolly good fellow, which nobody can deny. Carrot Cake Adapted from Epicurious Ingredients: 2/3 cup flour 1/2 [...]

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Hungarian Mushroom Soup

by Jillian Bedell May 22, 2012

We love patronizing local establishments as often as we can, but we seem to be always on the move. It’s a neat trick to be able to copy, to the best of my ability, favorite foods from far and wide, such as this dish made by our man Russell in Mexico, or this soup from a cafe in [...]

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Romesco Sauce

by Jillian Bedell May 17, 2012

There are four compound condiments everyone should know how to make. This is one of them. Romesco can be applied to bread, like a bruschetta, or roasted vegetables, such as red potatoes and asparagus. Toss it with cooked shrimp or slather it on a grilled skirt steak. It freezes well, apparently. So make a bunch and keep it for [...]

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Spring Brunch Menu: Buttermilk Pudding Cakes

by Jillian Bedell May 11, 2012

Daytime dessert is one of life’s little indulgences, mostly appropriate at brunch or a long lunch with a great aunt you admire but rarely get to see because she lives someplace fabulous, like  London or Schenectady. These little cakes are rather unexpected. Their texture is almost custard-like, curdish, curdled – it’s the buttermilk, I suppose. They [...]

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Spring Brunch Menu: Spinach and Gruyere Strata

by Jillian Bedell May 10, 2012

What’s the best aspect of brunch? Is it eating at the dining table in your half-pajamas? The gracious glass of tart mimosa or spicy Bloody Mary pregnant with pickles? The Sunday Times unpacked all over the floor, trailing after you for the rest of the day? Is it the interplay of sweet and savory, breakfast [...]

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Spring Brunch Menu: Asparagus Soup

by Jillian Bedell May 9, 2012

Spring has finally arrived in Maine, and with it golden-yellow dandelions carpeting fields of green, delicate pink blossoms decorating dogwood trees, and fat bumblebees buzzing lazily about daffodils. After many months of looking stripped, gray and stark, bare limbs are painted with colors saturated and brilliant. Spring always takes me by surprise. I catch it in [...]

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