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Tips for perfectly grilled vegetables

One of the highlights of the summer season is the incredible bounty of fresh produce, and grilling these vegetables gives them a smoky, delicious dimension. • When preparing vegetables, slice them to expose as much of the vegetable to the grill surface as you can. • Coat vegetables with olive oil before placing them on […]

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Lemony cheesecake, reinvented

A remarkable recipe that truly is a cheesecake. Taking a cheesecake and making it into an actual “cake” was a delight, especially since I reduced the fat ordinarily found in cheesecakes. A cross between a dense, yet fluffy, pound cake with the bold flavor of cheesecake, this dessert will replace both cakes, and is a […]

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Recalculating my sense of geography

During a recent jaunt to my college roommate’s cozy suburban hometown several states and a few hundred miles away, she and I reminisced how road travel’s evolved, become a smoother thing of ease by comparison to a decade before. The outstretched city highways dividing our towns haven’t necessarily changed for the better or less congested, […]

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Ever been in an abandoned building?

I’m not advocating entering abandoned houses. That would be breaking and entering. Or trespassing, at the very least. Either way, illegal. Maybe don’t do that. But leaving aside abandoned houses, if you live anywhere around Biddeford, you’ve probably been to the old mills at least once. Whether it was for a school trip, or to […]