Start with a store-bought chicken, and you’re halfway to a creative, but still convenient dinner.
Peggy Grodinsky
Grow yourself an English cottage garden in Maine
Unfussy, informal and comparatively carefree, they are becoming more popular, and it’s easy to understand why.
It’s high time to modernize Chicken Marbella. Here’s how …
With its pungent mix of capers, olives and prunes, it was popular 25 years ago.
Canoeing: May is the perfect month to explore Flying Pond in Vienna
It’s a lovely spot, and most of the summer cottages haven’t yet opened for the season, so you’ll have it to yourself – except for the loons and the kingfishers.
With vegetable scraps in your freezer, you have the making of liquid culinary gold
And with the resulting homemade vegetable broth, you have the foundation of a tasty, sustainable soup.
Hunting: Getting a turkey in heavily hunted areas often requires a different approach
When other ideas fail, there is always Plan C.
Explore nature and history along the flat, paved Mountain Division Trail
Running through Standish, Gorham and Windham, it is one of two existing sections on the proposed Portland-to-Fryeburg trail.
Chef Max Brody of Buxton Common on the other cook in the family
Back in the day, Lora Brody was a well-known cookbook writer and food personality. On Mother’s Day, her son tells us about her influence on him.
Gross Confection Bar in Portland’s Old Port defies expectations at every turn.
And for this dessert-only restaurant and bar, that’s excellent news.
Hunting: Weather has an impact on turkey behavior
But predicting precisely how the birds will behave in the rain isn’t easy.