Baked Sea Scallops

Large sea scallops are combined with garlic, shallots, butter, and bread crumbs then baked to perfection. Being from Maine, we love our seafood, and this is one of the greats! Ingredients 16 sea scallops, rinsed…

Grandma Jane’s English Toffee

Every holiday season we would receive a container of this toffee from my grandma. Ingredients Directions Notes * Original recipe calls for 1 and 1/2 cups almonds, but i like it better with 2 full…

Italian Vegetable Beef Soup

A thick and hearty soup (stew?) that’s packed with veggies. Ingredients 1 lb ground beef 1 cup chopped onion 1 cup chopped celery 1 cup chopped carrots 2 cloves garlic, minced 14.5 oz can diced…

Flaky Pie Crust

My moms pie crust recipe. I’ve never attempted it myself but when I decided it’s time to stop buying the pre-made crust from the store, i’ll give it a shot. Ingredients 2 cups all purpose-flour…

French Pancakes

This is the recipe that my grandfather made for my mom and her brothers every weekend. A classic in my family. It might actually be a Ruhlman’s Crêpes since it has a fair amount of…

Butterhorn Rolls

Classic Butterhorn rolls my mom would make on Thanksgiving. Ingredients 1 cup shortening 1 cup milk 1 1/2 tsp active dry yeast 1 tsp white sugar 1/2 cup warm water (tepid to slightly warm) 2…

Lasagna

A recipe that we ate a lot grown up was my aunt Constance’s lasagna recipe. Puts all those boxed stouffers lasagna’s to shame. Ingredients 1 lb Mozzarella cheese shredded 1 Tbsp olive oil 6 lasagna…

Mujaddara

This is something we adapted from watching a popular cooking show on public television. Ingredients 1 1/4 cups  lentils (not french) 1 1/4 cups basmati rice 1/2 large onion chopped 1 tsp coriander 1 tsp…

Seafood Chowder

This is a seafood chowder recipe I concocted from what I image to be an ideal seafood chowder. Inspired by something my dad would make us when we were growing up that everybody loved. Really,…