How a person can cook for nearly fifty years and not wittingly make Fettucini Alfredo or its sibling dish, Chicken Alfredo, I can’t explain, but apparently somehow, I seem to have skipped it. I think I must have eaten some along the way, because I have the distinct impression that it is delicious and […]
You love it or you hate it. Rhubarb advocates are delighted to see those red stems reach out and the dark green leaves unfurl. Others wince and clamp their jaws shut. Thirty years ago, when we moved to this house, one of the first things I noticed growing here was a rhubarb plant which I […]
A little four-inch square piece of paper floated out of the Recipes to Try file folder, and on one side was a recipe, probably Xeroxed from a newspaper for Old Fashioned Drop Molasses Cookies, with handwritten note in black ink, “These were good.” On the other side was written in my hand, “Richard McLaughlin, Machias.” […]
For years, we have accustomed ourselves to meat, potato and a side vege or two, and while I love meatloaf, mashed potatoes and green beans as well as the next person, I find as I get a little older that I simply can’t eat like that day after day anymore. Those mashed potatoes collect around […]
A couple weeks ago, right after Ethel Pochocki’s Danish Soup from her Holy Housewifery Cookbook, was the recipe for the week here, Jeannie Tabor of Monson, wrote me. “I was very interested in your column today about Ethel Pochocki. “I have always enjoyed her children’s books very much (I’m a retired librarian). One of my […]
If you can imagine an unleavened English muffin made out of very fine cornmeal then you can imagine an arepa. They come from Columbia in South America where they are sometimes split and used as a sandwich, stuffed with cheese, meat, or beans or are sometimes topped with those ingredients. I read about them somewhere […]
Ethel Pochocki was a faithful correspondent to this column early on. She sent along good recipes and ideas and we even talked on the phone. One of the joys and privileges of writing a weekly column like Taste Buds is exactly that kind of friendly connection I’ve been blessed with over the years with lots […]
Another in our series (over a couple of years) of vegetables in funny places: here is Potato Spice Cake sent by Ruth Thurston in Machias. Personally, I love spice cake and needed something to take a talk at the library. A friend of mine use to grouse that we couldn’t have a dog fight in […]
Mildred “Brownie” Schrumpf preceded me here in the Bangor Daily News with her weekly column which she penned for about four decades and which many of you remember and from which you clipped recipes like Hazel Varisco of Stonington did . I like to remember Brownie on the April anniversary of Taste Buds, now merely […]
Whether you do ham or lamb for Easter dinner, mashed potatoes make a terrific accompaniment. Actually, mashed potatoes are good almost any time, so maybe you’d rather have scalloped potatoes for Easter and save this artichoke-enhanced version of mashed for another time. Of course, plain old butter, milk, salt and pepper mashed potatoes are wonderful […]
