Chef Kate Shaffer of Black Dinah Chocolatiers savors the city’s restaurant abundance and adapts to a tiny kitchen.
Recipes
Yes, homemade corn tortillas can be excellent and easy
Making them with powdered rather than fresh masa gives you a wrap that still surpasses store-bought.
At Deering High School, the band plays on with a revived cookbook
The school’s music director conducts the re-creation of a 1947 community cookbook to raise funds for his department.
What can you add to granola? Whatever floats your oats
When you make your own, you can skip the raisons, add almonds, flax, millet – it always comes out great.
Seafood lovers get help finding the good stuff
An updated guide and a new cookbook lead readers through New England’s lobster shacks and seafood markets.
The Maine Ingredient: Find a little love in your hearts for chowder ‘from away’
Rhode Island’s Rocky Point Red Chowder is a great accompaniment to clam fritters.
Delicate flavor of white asparagus harmonizes well in elegant salad
It is best to peel the spears and allow longer cooking time than with green asparagus.
‘Paleo Perfected’ by America’s Test Kitchen
This excellent recipe compilation offers many clever tricks that add flavor and interest to paleo and low-carb diets.
Bread & Butter: For Black Dinah Chocolatiers, adjustment from island life is under construction
Co-founder Kate Shaffer misses the natural world but appreciates the less-complicated logistics.
Cookbook review: “Comfort and Joy: Cooking for Two”
Making a meal for just two seems like a lot of work with not a lot of payoff, at least if you follow the recipes in this cookbook.