A ‘Stuffie’ you ask? In New England, that means clams!

Our family loves New England clams in any form. Deep fried of course while visiting the shore with lots of tangy tartar sauce. Or steamed with all the dunking and slurping rituals. We’ll find them in a silky chowder, tossed in a simple white wine and garlic sauce over spaghetti, and in clam dip, too,…

A Bloody Plate even a Vegan will Love!

Blood Oranges are in season, let’s have fun with them! This is definitely a mid-February recipe, using beautiful root vegetables from our local farms, as well as the delightful citrus from the south that brightens up wintertime in all parts of the country. We need all the color we can get right now. Wake up…

Corn meal mush you ask? It sounds funny, but you can spell it ‘polenta’ if you like.

When it all catches up with you, a plate of comfort is just what the doctor ordered! Perhaps Pearl Onions and Mushrooms over Corn Meal Mush? Sometimes we had it for breakfast when I was growing up. Corn meal mush. It is really delightful, especially if drizzled with a bit of real maple syrup or…

It’s’ a real snow day, so let’s make a pot of cream of broccoli and mushroom soup!

We’ve had snow here and there this winter, but this week’s storm saw closings called the night before for many, an invitation to sleep in a bit and linger over some home-cooked comfort food. It’s one of those days where just about everything is closed, the schools, some shops, town clerk’s offices, community college, the…

Scrap Happy Planet: Raid your vegetable and fruit scrap bowls!

Once a month, we’re going to look at ways to help reduce food waste and keep our planet happier and healthier by using all those scraps that often end up in landfills and contribute to our ever-growing environmental problems. The worldwide statistics are sobering, over a third of everything we produce is tossed out, over…