Homemade Boston Baked Beans are so darn' good! Homemade Boston Baked Beans are far more yummy than canned beans and worth the small extra effort to prepare them. This Boston Baked Bean recipe is all about easy comfort food. When I was a kid growing up here in New England, every Saturday supper we had "beans and franks" and brown bread. There is a reason that Boston is … [Read more...]
Homemade Hummingbird Food Recipe
The hummingbirds are back looking for my hummingbird food recipe! My homemade hummingbird food recipe must be the favorite in the entire neighborhood. I know I am not the only person around here that feeds the hummingbirds but this morning my feeder was empty after only 2 days. In addition to that, I see them out here fighting over the feeder. Now I am not going to … [Read more...]
Bread & Butter Fiddlehead Pickles
Fiddlehead Pickles are delicious and easy to make! Fiddlehead pickles are yummy and worth the effort. You process fiddlehead pickles using the water bath canning method. Water bath canning is not difficult and is a great way to preserve food when it is in season and abundant. For me the canning season starts in the spring and carries on throughout the summer and right … [Read more...]
Stuffed Baked Apples Dessert Recipe
Stuffed Baked Apples - An Easy Quick Apple Dessert Stuffed Baked Apples are healthy, and they are easy to make. It's autumn and apples are in abundance! There are chilly fall days when I want an easy apple dessert that's warm and delicious but I don't have time for complicated recipes with pie crust and such. One of the "weapons" in my dessert arsenal is Baked Apples and … [Read more...]
Best Mashed Potatoes Recipe
Mashed Potatoes - as my son says, the perfect delivery system for Gravy Mashed potatoes are the favorite potato dish at the Thompson household, particularly if the main dish has any form of gravy as a side dish. And being from Aroostook County, Maine, I know my potatoes. Here in our region we have huge commercial potato farms and have a wide range of locally grown … [Read more...]
New England Clam Chowder or Manhattan Clam Chowder?
New England Clam Chowder or Manhattan Clam Chowder? It's a Tale of Two Chowders! I live in northern Maine at the very northern tip of the New England region. In the winter it is brutally cold here and a good bowl of steaming clam chowder can warm you like nothing else. Now here in Maine when you say clam chowder, there's no doubt that everybody thinks of traditional New … [Read more...]
Delicious Fiddlehead Casserole -Fiddleheads are a Northwoods delicacy
The fiddlehead ...... a true Northwoods delicacy! It's spring (finally!) here in the Maine Northwoods. For awhile in April it really looked like it would never come but now the earth is warming and the fiddleheads are poking through the ground. It's a short season as fiddlehead shaped sprouts of the ostrich fern are best consumed fresh which makes for a … [Read more...]
4th of July Patriot Pie – Apples, Blueberries, Raspberries – Yum!
4th of July Patriot Fruit Pie - incredibly delicious with a red, white and blue touch! I always make this recipe on the 4th of July and it's afamily favorite all summer long. But in July the berries are abundant here in Maine, so all the berries are fresh and yummy. And those delicious, fresh juicy berries make this pie the yummiest, plus you have the fun of picking them … [Read more...]
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