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...]
Easy Creamy Butternut Squash Soup
Creamy Butternut Squash SoupTry this Easy Creamy Butternut Squash Soup Recipe for a fall evening pleaser or a perfect course for Thanksgiving DinnerThis Creamy Butternut Squash Soup Recipe is a Thompson family favorite. I have to admit that I love all the members of the squash/pumpkin family and for that reason I have a great collection of squash and … [Read more...]
Slow Cooker Olive Garden Zuppa Toscana Soup
Olive Garden eat your heart out - it's Slow Cooker Zuppa Toscana Soup for supper!Winter seems like a soup fest! If I have a fire burning in the kitchen wood stove, I will leave pot of soup simmering on it. But even in the winter, I don't always have the time to babysit the kitchen woodstove so I rely on my slow cooker. Crock pot cookin' is a favorite of mine … [Read more...]
Twice Baked Potatoes
Twice Baked Potatoes Recipe - A step by step tutorialTwice baked potatoes are definitely worth the extra effort. This is a potato recipe that you can easily change up with different flavors and toppings so after you get the basics down, get creative. Food should not only be good, it should be fun! Here in Aroostook County, Maine, potatoes are big business and … [Read more...]
Easy Moist Pistachio Muffin Recipe
Green is Good - especially when it's a moist Pistachio Muffin!I love the pistachio flavor, be it in ice cream, pudding, or in the yummy results of this Pistachio Muffin Recipe. The first time I ever had pistachio ice cream, as a kid, I thought it was maraschino cherry ice cream and they had got the color wrong. To this day, pistachio "anything" reminds … [Read more...]
Best Homemade Blueberry Jam Recipe
Blueberry Jam is on my mind. I love preserving whatever produce is in season and abundant whether it is from my garden or the farmers market. The more news reports I hear about food recalls like the lettuce scare pf last year, the more I like to grow my own food or buy from local farmers. Here in northern Maine we have a couple of good sized Amish communities so finding … [Read more...]
Best Blackberry Jam Recipe
How to Make Delicious Blackberry Jam - going old school!I found this recipe for Blackberry Jam years ago in an old Maine cookbook called "Good Maine Food". It was book published in 1949 and it has a lot of good old fashioned recipes in it. This Blackberry Jam Recipe didn't call for any pectin so I was a little nervous the first time I used it as I had become a … [Read more...]
KitchenAid Basic White Bread Recipe
A Great Basic White Bread Recipe from KitchenAidMy KitchenAid Stand Mixer, my best friend when I'm baking Bread, deserves a Gold Watch or least a decent burial......Update- June 2021 - she's still working, bless her little KitchenAid motor!Please note that this is not a paid sponsored post but just a case of giving credit where credit is due!27 34 … [Read more...]
Basic Easy Coleslaw Recipe
Coleslaw - what can be said about it?Numerous clichés lend themselves to describing coleslaw - "always a bridesmaid, never the bride" or "best supporting actor in a cast of thousands". It is always cast in a supporting role but coleslaw fills a need in so many meal plans. Coleslaw is there to cleanse and awake the palate in a meal heavily laden with greasy fried … [Read more...]
Sister Jo’s Zucchini Relish- a recipe to use large zucchini
Zucchini relish is the perfect canning recipe to use up Monster Zucchini!This recipe for Zucchini Relish is the perfect way to use up extra zucchini. Zucchini are without a doubt the most prolific vegetable in the garden. Think about it! The vegetable everybody wants to give you from their garden is ZUCCHINI SQUASH. And they almost never give you the nice small … [Read more...]