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Spring Brunch Menu: Spinach and Gruyere Strata
What’s the best aspect of brunch? Is it eating at the dining table in your half-pajamas? The gracious glass of tart mimosa or spicy Bloody Mary pregnant with pickles? The Sunday Times unpacked all...
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Chicken in Chipotle Cream Sauce
As holidays of dubious historical significance that serve as little more than an excuse for copious daytime imbibing, Cinco de Mayo is my second least favorite. I prefer daytime drinking that is...
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Hungarian Mushroom Soup
We love patronizing local establishments as often as we can, but we seem to be always on the move. It’s a neat trick to be able to copy, to the best of my ability, favorite foods from far and wide,...
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Fourth of July Ice Cream Pie
Celebrate Independence Day the way our forefathers intended, with cake flavored ice cream and syrupy fruit. Berries are abundant, ripe and tart this time of year and are perfect complements to the...
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Coffee “S’mores” Pie
Juliette Low founded the Girl Scouts of America on March 12, 1912. On September 15, 1985, I joined their illustrious ranks, as a member of Troop 207. Those early days of scouting were...
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Bacon-Cheddar Zucchini Bread
Armloads of zucchini appear on our doorstep through August, from whom we’ll never know. Small town summer life is idyllic here in Maine. I want to bake this quick bread for breakfast with a house full...
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Yukon Gold Potatoes with Crème Fraîche and Lobster Roe
Do you eat the roe? Typically I do not, when enjoying lobster, munch on its eggs, nor do I suck the legs, drink claw liquid or dismantle the body cavity. And I definitely don’t touch the tomalley....
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Pumpkin Orecchiette with Spinach and Sage
So, technically, it’s still Summer until September twenty-something. And the weather has been glorious here in coastal Maine. Warm and breezy with deep blue skies, cool enough to sleep under down with...
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Eggnog Cake
During December, we remember all the years that came before. We think about where we were, who we were, who we were with, and what we were doing. This is how we measure our lives. And traditions keep...
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Kale and Artichoke Soup
Ah, spring, when a young man’s fancy turns to Hamden. Tanning at Tommy K’s, blithely strolling the wide aisles of Liquor Land, getting greasy burgers from the Dutchess Drive-Thru. I wish that I was...
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