BROOKLIN — Pickled blueberries from a new company called Planet Naskeag will soon appear in stores on the Blue Hill Peninsula and beyond. The berries provide rich antioxidant health benefits along with scintillating flavors that are a savory complement for roasts, salads, sandwiches and more. Made with organic berries grown on small, local farms, Planet …
ELLSWORTH — Mexican food lovers rejoice. The long-anticipated Margaritas Mexican Restaurant opened Tuesday, Aug. 25, to serve up freshly made tacos, nachos, salads and chimichangas, not to mention cocktails, including countless flavors of margaritas. At 191 Main St., Margaritas succeeds The Mex restaurant that was founded by Bruce Wardwell in 1979 and served up Mexican-inspired …
ELLSWORTH — Want to have a glass of wine, eat some zucchini bread and take a painting class? You’re in luck. Hailee Carter and Teagan Candage plan on opening The Crafty Baker, a bake shop/craft store, at 56 Deane St. this September. “I started baking from a young age with my grandmother,” said Carter, who …
ELLSWORTH – The new Ellsworth take-out spot Wicked Munchies has become wicked popular. According to owner Travis Healey, 36, a resident of Bar Harbor, Wicked Munchies has been consistently serving “400 to 500 meals” during recent weekends, from 10-inch pizzas to five different kinds of mac and cheese to gooey sandwich melts. The restaurant’s Facebook …
Our slow, cool spring produced a bumper crop of rhubarb for many folks. Although usually eaten as a “fruit,” rhubarb is a vegetable, botanically speaking. An invaluable homestead plant in Maine, this tart- tasting member of the buckwheat family can reach up to 2 feet tall. I’m a collector of rhubarb recipes, and we’ve …
DEER ISLE — What the world needs now is love, sweet love, to quote Burt Bacharach. Love and a cup of hibiscus or linden flower infusion or perhaps a cooling glass of cucumber and lemon balm water. The drinks are the suggestions of Deer Isle herbalist Brighid Doherty, who founded the Solidago School of Herbalism …
I have been thinking about all the parents who are providing some kind of home schooling for their children. Making oatmeal breadsticks is a project that young children can do and a change of pace for breakfast or lunch. It also can be a lesson in chemistry and physics. The baking powder in this …
Who doesn’t love a fresh chocolate chip cookie hot from the oven? America’s favorite hand-held confection is credited to Ruth Graves Wakefield, owner of the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Mass. In 1938, Ruth made cookies with chunks of a Hershey candy bar, featuring them in her restaurant as the “Toll House Cookie.” The …
BAR HARBOR — Sprightly Masanobu and Tomoko Ikemiya have been eating a raw food diet — fruit, greens, sprouted vegetables, nuts and grains — for over 25 years. “It makes us feel good and it’s the healthiest, most uplifting, easy-to-digest food,” said Masanobu Ikemiya, who is an internationally known concert pianist. He is best …
A drizzle of cream. A dab of butter. A slice of cheese. What could possibly be wrong with pleasures like those? And yet, to the fat-fearful, they might as well be arsenic — especially heavy cream, which seems to occupy its own circle of dietary damnation. Granted there are some folks whose systems don’t react …
STEUBEN — “Be careful, goats are addictive” is the cautionary advice that Lisa Reilich was told before she brought home her first goat. She laughed it off at the time, but over time has come to tell others the same thing. “Goats have hugely impacted our life,” she said. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many Mainers …
ELLSWORTH — If there’s a silver lining to undergoing chemo or radiation treatment it might be this: milkshakes are encouraged. “We try to get as much calories and protein per swallow, basically, as we can get into people,” said Donna Walsh, an oncology nutrition specialist who works at the Harold Alfond Center for Cancer Care …
