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This recipe for Apricot and Tarragon Sables makes the perfect cocktail cookie!

Here is a recipe for keeping it real…really warm and smelling great in the house with aromas of many of our favorite Autumn things: cumin, coffee, and cocoa as well as the winning way roasting pork has on our outlook, especially on a blustery day.

To honor my friend Karl’s commitment to vegetarianism, here is a new Vegetarian Posole Stew recipe for your arsenal.

Evidently, mache is a superfood. See if you can’t add this wonderful green to your list of Autumn foods.

I discovered the ease of making cider jelly quite by mistake one Autumn day.

I think my favorite preparation for black trumpet mushrooms is a wild mushroom linguini that I make with black trumpet mushrooms and their cousin, the winter chanterelle, now appearing in a woods near you!

Here is the excellent Game Bird Gumbo prepared by Patty Ball and served at her daughter’s wedding. Patty removed all the buckshot herself. What a woman!

I was able to find fingerling potatoes this year at my local farm stand, and was surprised by how perfectly they crisp up after a gentle pressing with a masher, which leaves them whole but flattened, releasing the tender cooked flesh.

In the new issue of Maine Food & Lifestyle magazine, caterer Laura Cabot shares her amazing recipe for Eggplant Caponata. Laura says, “When in Paris, ratatouille rules. When in Rome, try caponata.”

I am thinking of a dish using native lamb, local eggs, eggplants, potato, and herbs. Call it Greek lasagna or…Moussaka!