Farm fog
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 Posted in Maine days | 1 Comment »On that November Maine trip, I played with an old plastic Diana camera. Here are two favorites - of belted cows and a barn on State Route 46, and of the foggy harbor between Bucksport and Prospect. That's the mid-1800s ...
Sauerkraut and Belon
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 Posted in Food, Maine days, Oysters, Travel | No Comments »On a November drive on the Maine coast north of Portland, we stopped in at Morse's Sauerkraut for a quart of their brined cabbage. I love the sour crunch, hot or cold. We met one of the owners and learned ...
July Mainer
Saturday, July 18th, 2009 Posted in Food, Maine days, Travel | No Comments »Sunshine is even more precious in Maine this summer. Everyone talks of the rainy weeks of June. One lobsterman shook his head and said, "Ain't had no spring. Hardly had no summer." But since arriving on the eve of July ...
Knee deep in Maine
Monday, February 23rd, 2009 Posted in Maine days, Travel | No Comments »I'm working this week in western Maine, and checking out ski towns. Last night the sky opened to a major drop of snow. While we drank a couple of beers at dinner at The Rack (Olympic snowboarder Seth Weston's place), ...
Fat snowflakes, bacon and beer
Thursday, February 19th, 2009 Posted in Food, Maine days, Travel | No Comments »Last night we double-hopped dinner around Longfellow Square in Portland, Maine. At Local 188, it was a round of Estrella and Unibroue with a long plate of spicy meatballs to share. We'd been to Local before, when it was in ...
Maine swims, meals
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Posted in Food, Maine days | No Comments »Spent only part of August at the cabin this year, and much of our stay was in silver. There were clouds often, a chill in the morning. We still jumped in the lake the first afternoon, and most ...
Tiny oven, big Thanksgiving
Friday, November 23rd, 2007 Posted in Food, Maine days | No Comments »Up at the Maine cabin for Thanksgiving, we put our new (since summer) Sears-bought, 20-inch wide gas oven to the test. It's a tiny workhorse. We cooked on all burners and both oven racks, from turkey to stuffing ...