A showstopper dessert evokes the beloved dessert maker.
Recipes
This peach-cherry cobbler is stealthily healthful
Made with whole-grain flour, a touch of honey and healthier oil to stand in for the butter, this cobbler delivers a delightful coda to any meal.
Home Plates: Come summer, cooking outside is a joy. Let vegetables shine in this Grilled Ratatouille
Local farmers markets and Laura Motley’s own vegetable garden swell with abundance now, and a favorite recipe makes the most of the produce.
When the family heirloom is an heirloom tomato
Artist Anastasia Inciardi already specialized in drawings of food when a chance discovery led her to the Inciardi Paste Tomato.
Gribiche is the sauce that can do it all
The sauce can, and in some cases should, be a main course.
Home Plates: Old Tavern Inn’s blueberry muffins celebrate Maine, however you make them
A Portland couple carries on a tradition started by one of their grandmothers, who took over an inn in Litchfield as a retirement project.
Hot honey shrimp and a crisp slaw make a quick meal for summer nights
After it’s tossed with hot honey, olive oil and garlic, the shrimp roast in just minutes.
A cake to weather a storm, from Cathie Pelletier’s ‘Northeaster’
This frugal, old-fashioned Blueberry Cake with Nutmeg Sauce appears in her new book about Mainers in the blizzard of 1952.
One last piece of advice: Be flexible
Seasonal, local, organic, etc. But the key lesson columnist Christine Burns Rudalevige has to convey about being a sustainable cook and eater? Stay flexible.
Grilled chicken salad with corn and watermelon is summer in a bowl
Memories of casual childhood summer meals on the patio inspired the dish.