Category Archives: cooking
3 myths busted about corned beef and cabbage on St. Patrick’s Day
Corned beef and cabbage: Myth #1: it’s too involved to make. Myth #1 busted. It’s much easier to braise a piece of corned beef with a passle of veggies than sourcing, searing and saucing those Korean short ribs you’ve been coddling in the slow cooker for a week. Myth #2: it has so many ingredients, […]
August in Maine means blueberries, baking and beer
Maine produces foods that are iconic: lobsters chief among them. But at a certain “tilt” of summer, Maine blueberries, tiny with a sweet/tart burst on the palate, are a must-have in the kitchen. I know it’s hot, blasted hot some days in August. Take a deep breath, set the oven to 350 degrees, turn on […]
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5 things to cook while you still have power: blizzard alert
Here we go again, Mainers! Snow is in the forecast, the third time this week where I am, Waterville, which is smack between Bangor and Augusta on the highway and on the television weather map. Here are some strategies for the upcoming “event.” Below is the chili they serve at Gritty McDuff’s Brewpub: IF YOU […]
Eat this, drink that for Super Bowl LI: cake and beer
I’m back from a month in Italy, and super psyched that my Patriots are in the Super Bowl, ahem, again. I grew up in Littleton, Massachusetts back when they were the Boston Patriots. We eventually got used to sharing them with the five other New England states, if not begrudgingly, when they re-named the team. […]
Debate this: is corned beef and cabbage Irish or American?
I can’t recall my mother ever making corned beef and cabbage, but I’ll bet that’s because she knew we kids wouldn’t eat it. Cabbage? Only as cole slaw on the side of our Monarch Diner’s Friday night fried clam dinners. My grandmother by marriage, Margaret Mary McCarthy, made New England boiled dinners, a descendant of […]