No juicy, peak season tomatoes or tender kernels of just picked corn, but winter salads in Maine can offer heft, crunch, tang and charm all their own.
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Green Plate Special: Making pasta is a tasty way to spend quality time with kids
Cavatelli doesn’t require any special equipment and, with this recipe, you might get them to eat their broccoli too.
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The oyster savers: The mollusks filter water, protect against storms and taste amazing. Restoring their habitat is a no-brainer
Many stakeholders are participating in a project to restore natural oyster beds to a tidal inlet of the New Meadows River near Phippsburg.
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Green Plate Special: What to do with all the brown paper bags you accumulated at the height of the pandemic?
With stamps, ribbons and pine cones, you can repurpose them into beautiful holiday wrapping paper.
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Green Plate Special: Stumped by how to use up the leftover cranberry sauce?
Here is a cornucopia of options for making use of that one last thing in the fridge.
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In time for Thanksgiving, the air-fryer makes a new convert
It frees up oven space, and air-fried Brussels sprouts make a strong argument for the appliance.
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Green Plate Special: Freezing pie crusts can help save on time and cleanup
You can also freeze whole, unbaked pies ahead of time to reduce stress on Thanksgiving.
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Green Plate Special: Laid low? Feeling sneezy, sniffly and scratchy? Sip this
A ‘killer’ broth to cure (okay assuage) the common cold.
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Upcycle Halloween candy into truffles, pudding and cake
Employ these baking tricks to turn unpopular Halloween leavings into real treats: Butterfinger Truffles, Whopper Bread Pudding and Almond Joy Bundt Cake.
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Betwixt and between: When summer produce lingers, but the calendar says it’s fall
What to do? Apply cold weather cooking methods, such as roasting and braising, to summery produce.