Category: Cooking & Canning

Vegetarian recipes for your St. Patrick’s Day celebration

Irish cuisine isn't typically welcoming to vegetarians, but with these recipes, you can still enjoy a hearty feast.

March 16, 2023 10:17 am

What to do with discarded sourdough starter

When I made sourdough starter for the first time, I did not discard the starter after every feeding, as is…

July 28, 2020 3:29 pm

How to make bone broth

Boiling broth filled with turkey bones, cilantro and other herbs and vegetables. | Photo by Bridget Brown Bone broth is…

April 24, 2020 2:30 pm

How to feed yourself if you lose power

Power outages are always inconvenient. But during a pandemic — when the state is under a stay-at-home order and people…

April 22, 2020 9:00 am

Here’s what you need to know about cooking with dried beans

Red kidney beans. | Photo from Pexels As the number of positive coronavirus cases continues to climb, citizens around the…

March 18, 2020 9:41 am

8 things I learned from eating vegan for a week

Photo by Linda Coan O'Kresik Plant-based diets are all the rage right now, which is generally good news for the…

February 8, 2020 11:40 am

What’s the best way to store dried beans?

Photo by Linda Coan O'Kresik Inexpensive, simply stored and packed with protein, fiber and essential vitamins, beans really are the…

January 14, 2020 9:00 am

Calm down, Brits: mincemeat pie does have meat sometimes

A slice of mincemeat cheesecake pie made by Maine food historian Sandy Oliver. | Photo by Sandy Oliver Another day,…

December 10, 2019 10:50 am

Our country is out of touch with our food system. Can we shift the tide here in Maine?

To be honest, I didn’t want to learn more about the recent recall on romaine lettuce because I knew once…

November 29, 2019 9:00 am

Make your Thanksgiving budget-friendly and local this year

Thanksgiving can be pricey, can’t it? But it doesn’t have to be. Here’s how to enjoy a budget-friendly Thanksgiving this…

November 15, 2019 9:00 am

This has become the heart of my home

There's an area in my house where everyone congregates. And that's become the heart of our home. What's yours? Photo…

November 8, 2019 5:58 pm

I tried making sourdough starter from scratch. Here’s how it went.

When I lived in the Bay Area, I would take the train to San Francisco every Friday for a long…

October 23, 2019 2:48 pm