Tag Archives: Downeast Maine

Public suppers, casseroles make for perfect food fit

To everyone who learned how to make egg noodle casseroles in junior high home economics class more than 40 years ago — I have now drawn even with you. Turkey noodle casserole got me there, last week. “Casserole” has seemed like the perfect kind of public supper dish, to me through the years. I have […]

Take my dinner, please — what I asked of my friends

I wrote that starting with my 56th birthday, that I would learn to cook. (It’s complicated). So that happened, one day later. On the Friday evening two weeks ago, we put out the word — dinner at Berta’s house. The caveat: Katherine’s cooking Now, we could safely say this, because Berta is my aunt, Roberta […]