Lemon meringue pie and its lemony relatives are welcome year round at this house, and I’ll bet, elsewhere. When you all sent me lemon meringue recipes, some of you sent intriguing variations. Penny Kneeland in Burlington offered her grandmother Amelia … Continue reading
It was a good day to bake bread: drizzly, cold, overcast, and too miserable to be outdoors. The recipe turned out to be ideal for making while I was getting some other stuff done. Like many breads, you get it … Continue reading
Nibbles with wine and the news is part of the evening ritual around here. There is always the old cheese and crackers gambit, but I don’t have the kind of metabolism that can burn through slices of cheddar on our … Continue reading
A sixty-five-foot long bed of asparagus out behind the house is blasting out spears as we speak. This is its third year, and, after waiting fairly patiently for the requisite two years, during which we allow the plants to get … Continue reading
Two lemons, zest and juice, are what you need to set your sour tooth a-tingling. Plus, of course, just the right proportion of egg yolks, sugar, cornstarch, and flour. What a lovely bunch of lemon meringue pie recipes readers sent. … Continue reading
Asparagus is sprouting in the garden, fiddleheads are emerging in a few places, and some of us have spinach and parsnips in our gardens left from last year. Even as this household moves onto these new vegetables, I am eyeing … Continue reading
One way to get rid of dandelions is to eat them. Some people are busy right now, rooting them out of lawns and gardens, myself included. My mom used to dig a mess each spring, and boil them. On the … Continue reading
If it is hollow (or if it only has a dent), stuff it: chickens, peppers, turkeys, whole fish, mushroom caps. If it isn’t hollow, empty it out; then stuff it: tomatoes, potatoes, squash, clams. So it goes. Dates have a … Continue reading
This is fast food, really, but it tastes slow. We all need a few thirty-minute recipes like this in our respective repertoires to get ourselves through the daily “what to make for dinner” dilemma. It probably is a travesty of … Continue reading
Jars of biscotti sitting on the counters of coffee shops always, always tempt me. I love biscotti and I always say to myself, “for the amount of money you want to spend on those you could make your own and … Continue reading
