By Hilary Nangle on December 15, 2011
Ployes! Pot en Pot! Tortierre! Creton! Raisin Pie! If you’ve ever had the good fortune to travel in Maine’s St. John Valley, you’re likely familiar with French-Acadian cuisine. Bouchard Family Farms, based in Fort Kent, Maine, has a new cookbook, French-Acadian Cookbook: Keeping the Tradition Alive ($12), that celebrates both the food and Maine’s Acadian [...]
Posted in Aroostook County, Food, Maine Made, Recipes, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged cookbook reviewBouchard Family Farms, French-Acadian food, ployes, pot en pot, raisin pie, recipes, tortierre |
By Hilary Nangle on October 15, 2011
Life doesn’t get much sweeter than creating a successful gourmet chocolate business on a Maine island that’s home to a remote section of Acadia National Park, and that’s what Kate and Steve Shaffer have done with Black Dinah Chocolatiers on Isle au Haut. And now, Kate is sharing the secrets of her success, along with [...]
Posted in Acadia, Food, Recipes, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Black Dinah Chocolatiers, Desserted: Recipes and Tales from an Island Chocolatier, Isle au Haut, Kate Shaffer, Steve Shaffer |
By Hilary Nangle on October 1, 2011
In Maine, eating fresh, local food is easy. The state was farm-to-table in homes and in many restaurants long before it became trend. Now that it’s harvest season, farm stands and farmers’ markets are overflowing with fresh produce, but sometimes figuring out how to prepare those veggies and fruits can be a challenge. Lisa Turner, [...]
Posted in Food, Recipes | Tagged apple cranberry cake, Lisa Turner, pumpking whoopie pies, recipes, review, The EAt Local Cookbook |
By Hilary Nangle on August 28, 2011
Sitting in a rocker on the front porch of Elsa’s Inn and gazing out at the lobster boats bobbing in Prospect Harbor, it’s hard not to believe all is right with the world…or at least on the Schoodic Peninsula, home to the only mainland section of Maine’s Acadia National Park. Stay north on Route 1 [...]
Posted in Acadia, Food, Inns & B&Bs, Lodging, Recipes, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Acadia National Park, Elsa's inn on the harbor, Gouldsboro, Prospect Harbor, schoodic point |
By Hilary Nangle on August 16, 2011
Restaurants come and go in Winter Harbor, Maine, but Carl and Kathy Johnson’s Fisherman’s Inn Restaurant has stood the test of time, serving fresh and local fare since long before it was the trendy thing to do. The menu, service, and food draw local folks, tourists visiting the Schoodic section of Acadia National Park, and [...]
Posted in Acadia, Food, Moon guidebook updates, Recipes, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Carl Johnson, finnan haddie recipe, Fisherman's Inn Restaurant, Maine mussels in Yellow Thai Curry recipe, Winter Harbor |
By Hilary Nangle on August 6, 2011
Talk about perfect timing: A review copy of Notes from a Maine Kitchen: Seasonally Inspired Recipes, by Kathy Gunst, arrived in the mail at the same time my local produce stand was brimming with possibilities. Experiencing Maine is as much about plate as it is about place. The state has developed a national reputation for [...]
Posted in Food, Maine Made, Recipes | Tagged cookbook review, corn, Kathy Gunst, lobster, maple syrup, Notes from a Maine Kitchen, recipes |
By Hilary Nangle on July 19, 2011
I had the good fortune to sail aboard American’s oldest active commercial schooner, the Lewis R. French, during the Maine Windjammer Association’s annual Parade of Sail by Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse. At the helm as we sailed out of Camden was the youngest captain in the fleet, Garth Wells Garth purchased the French in 2003 after [...]
Posted in Boating, Events, Food, Penobscot Bay, Recipes, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Camden, Italian Sausage Soup, Maine Windjammer Association, Parade of Sail, Rockland, Rockland Breakwater light, Schooner Lewis R. French |
By Hilary Nangle on July 4, 2011
What’s green, then blue, then red, then black all over? A Maine wild blueberry field through the seasons. Author Virginia M. Wright spills the berries about this delectable fruit in The Wild Blueberry Book. (Down East Books). Sure, the whoopie pie may have been selected Maine’s official treat, but it’s the wild blueberry pie that’s [...]
Posted in Food, Maine Made, Recipes, Resources | Tagged lobster and blueberries, Maine wild blueberries, recipes, The Maine Wild Blueberry Book |
By Hilary Nangle on May 25, 2011
Yesterday, I had the good fortune to attend a brunch at Portland’s Pomegranate Inn launching innkeeper Dana Moos new cookbook, The Art of Breakfast: How to Bring B&B Entertaining Home (Down East Books, May 2011). Dana made putting together a nine-course (!) meal look easy, and she says it is, explaining how in this book. [...]
Posted in Food, Greater Portland, Inns & B&Bs, Lodging, Recipes, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged breakfast recipe, cookbook review, Dana Moos, fiddlehead recipe, lobster recipe, Pomegranate Inn, Portland, The Art of Breakfast |
By Hilary Nangle on April 29, 2011
I asked Chef Mitchell Kaldrovich, of the Sea Glass dining room at the Inn by the Sea, in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, to share a recipe for one of Maine’s favorite spring delicacies, fiddleheads. “I am very excited to have our forager bring us fiddleheads next week. You have to treat them lightly so they retain [...]
Posted in Deals, Food, Greater Portland, Maine Made, Recipes, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Cape Elizabeth, Chef Mitchell Kaldrovich, fiddleheads, Inn by the Sea, Sea Glass restaurant |
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