Fia's Maine Kitchen | Exploring Maine one bite at a time

A while ago, a friend of mine told me a trick for making caramel sauce that was, basically, foolproof. With an infant around, I don’t exactly have the time to babysit a pot of hot sugar on my stovetop, so the idea of a mason jar and a crock pot was incredibly...

My father had what I like to think of as a “healthy unhealthy” obsession with beans and rice, particularly toward the end of his life. “It is the perfect food,” he would tell me, and I would roll my eyes, because I found it boring and uninspiring. He...

When the weather starts getting cooler, we all start thinking about meals that warm our bodies from the inside, I think. Hearty casseroles and pot pies, for example, chili and soup. And one of my favorite autumn soups is squash soup, but I find that...

This weekend, we caved and got a storage unit; we had one before we moved to Portland, but we had been using our spare room for storage, and since our daughter was born, we’ve been working toward making her room more hers. So while a friend watched her...