Articles by Emma Schultz
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Finnish Sunday Rolls
on April 22, 2013, at 8:10 p.m.
Things have really been heating up here in Aroostook County. Temperature-wise? Sure, I guess. But I’m thinking more about how wonderfully busy I’ve become. After a year spent seeking work, I finally found it, and that has ushered in a whole set of beautiful conundrums in recent months. Like, do ...
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Tasty Treats in Houlton at Cooking Demo
on Oct. 18, 2012, at 3:37 p.m.
UPDATE: As of Thursday evening (the 18th), this event has been moved to Sunday October 21st, due to poor expected weather conditions on Saturday. At this time, I will be unable to make the rescheduled event, due to prior commitments. In recent months, I’ve been busy scheming to develop a ...
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Siu Mai Fritters
on Aug. 31, 2012, at 9:44 a.m.
Dim sum is by far my favorite cuisine. If you’re unfamiliar with dim sum, which is the Chinese equivalent of tapas, you can read a bit more about it here. In summary, most of the food is served in small dishes, and many of the dishes are either filled buns ...
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Hearty Zucchini Bread
on Aug. 12, 2012, at 12:16 p.m.
It’s that time of year. The time when larger-than-life zucchinis weasel their way into your yard, your pantry, your every waking thought. Every year, the excitement over such a glorious bounty is quickly replaced with fears that despite your best efforts, the zucchinis in your kitchen will never dwindle. Perhaps ...
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Parsley Semolina Pasta
on Aug. 04, 2012, at 11:08 a.m.
I’ve started to reap the fruits of my labor in my small raised bed garden. Delicious sweet sugar snap peas, little cucumbers, Swiss chard, spinach, and wonderful reddish lettuce have all made their way into my kitchen and onto the table. Beans are nearly ready, and root vegetables are putting ...
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Delicious Mexican Cuisine at Eastport’s Bank Square
on July 26, 2012, at 4:43 p.m.
Earlier this month, I spent a weekend in and around the Downeast Maine town of Eastport. Downeast is successful at attracting tourists interested in the quintessential coastal Maine experience, and Eastport is no exception. Lobster boats patrol the waters, and lobsters of all shapes and sizes are on the menus ...
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Carolina-Style Barbecue Sauce
on July 20, 2012, at 10:45 a.m.
Last week I provided a recipe for slow-simmered Collard Greens flavored with garlic scapes and bacon fat. Collard greens are a terrific side dish, especially when paired with something as delectable as a half rack of ribs. We purchased our ribs from The Chopping Block in Presque Isle – they were affordable, ...
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Collard Greens With Garlic Scapes
on July 13, 2012, at 7:41 a.m.
As far as nutritional foliage is concerned, collard greens seem to be the ultimate in comfort food. Served as a side to Carolina-style smothered ribs (recipe to come next week), well-cooked collard greens act as a flavorful addition that offer much more to the palate than most other vegetables simmered ...
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Join Me For Cool Scoops: An Ice Cream Making Workshop
on July 10, 2012, at 10:09 a.m.
Due to current goat hardships at Took a Leap Farm, this course has been put on hold. Stay tuned… Love ice cream? Looking to learn how to wow your family and friends with delicious no-fail ice cream recipes? Look no further. Together with Kathryn Harnish, she of the wonderful goat ...
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Homemade Aquavit
on June 26, 2012, at 11:19 a.m.
Whether you spell it aquavit, akvavit, akevitt, or akvaviitti, this ‘water of life’ spiced hard liquor is traditional to Scandinavia, and dates back centuries. Distilled from either grain or potatoes, aquavit is then flavored with a wide variety of spices and herbs, from caraway, dill, coriander and cardamom, to cumin, anise ...
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Three Simple Side Dishes = One Great Meal
on June 19, 2012, at 10:59 a.m.
Pepper Cheese Grits, Dilled Bean + Wheat Salad, and Bacon Brussels Sprouts. On their own, each is a delicious side dish. Together, they form a gorgeous trifecta of a meal, packing a nutritious punch – as well as a sinful amount of cheese and bacon. This dinner is pretty to behold, easy ...
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Gardening in Aroostook: Planting
on June 12, 2012, at 12:50 p.m.
I heard yesterday that some people in Aroostook have had to replant their vegetable seeds, following the moderately chilly, cloudy and wet spring that we’ve had. We held off on planting our small raised bed until June 3rd, due primarily to a laziness in accumulating enough soil for the raised ...
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Cooking With Goat Cheese
on June 04, 2012, at 11:20 a.m.
This past Saturday, I spoke at the Took a Leap Farm Open House in Houlton, on the topic of Cooking With Goat Cheese. It was a wonderful day, filled with good food, excellent folk music, and sweetly bleating goat kids. Kathryn and Rob made wonderful hosts, and everyone who visited ...
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Join Me June 2nd for Took A Leap Farm’s Open House!
on May 29, 2012, at 8:38 a.m.
Took a Leap Farm is a small Nigerian Dwarf dairy goat farm located just outside of Houlton, Maine. Specializing in fresh goat cheeses such as chèvre and feta, the farm is a recent dream-turned-reality that has been nine years in the making – ever since owners Kathryn Harnish and ...
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Vibrant and Delicious Stinging Nettle Pasta
on May 21, 2012, at 11:52 a.m.
Ever since spring has sprung, I’ve been going a bit forage-wild. I have over fifteen pounds of ostrich fern fiddleheads, in various states of being, from frozen to pickled. And while out collecting my second batch of fiddleheads last week, I also made a point to gather a grocery bag’s ...
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How to make leftovers exciting
on May 14, 2012, at 8:29 a.m.
Let’s get this out in the open straight-off: leftovers can be a pain. It’s incredibly easy to let food go bad in the fridge, and while annoying, it seems simpler to push leftovers to dark recesses of the refrigerator than to take them out and reheat them. You’ve probably seen ...
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Fiddleheading in Aroostook
on May 08, 2012, at 12:16 p.m.
I’ve been waiting with bated breath for fiddleheads to break dormancy in northern Maine. Growing up in Minnesota, I felt a similar pulse of excitement each spring as morel season drew closer and closer. Now, however, my head is filled with glorious visions of emerging triumphant from the woods with ...
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My Favorite Scones
on April 30, 2012, at 1:05 p.m.
I’m very picky about scones. I will go so far as to say that I don’t like most scones. But there is one recipe that I completely adore, and I make it as often as possible. Which is to say, every time it crosses my mind. Which is… not that ...
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Edamame Chickpea Falafel
on April 27, 2012, at 9:40 a.m.
I mentioned on Monday that I often like to plan a week’s worth of meals with the help of the food magazine Everyday Food. This is another meal out of the same publication that gave us the Corn Orzo Salad. This recipe is for Edamame Chickpea Falafel, served with a ...
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Multi-Dish Meals: Corn Orzo Salad
on April 23, 2012, at 8:49 a.m.
The luxury of unemployment is that I have plenty of time for meal planning. The downside is that funds for such meal planning are somewhat tight. However, I have found that thirty minutes spent planning the week’s meals, and a subsequent trip to the store to pick up everything necessary for ...
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