Interior designer Susan Turner created a patio at her Peterborough home to make to most of the bucolic setting amidst the highlands, ponds and a meadow with cows. Her vision was to re-create the open, airy feeling she knew from growing up in the South. Turner had her collection of vintage 1940s wrought iron furniture painted a grayish-blue, then upholstered…
Portsmouth’s Muddy River Smokehouse (430-9582, www.muddyriver.com) keeps winning awards for barbecue, whether it be from this magazine or TV’s Phantom Gourmet. Pulled pork is the most popular item at the Congress Street restaurant and is slow cooked for about 15 hours. “The long smoking process and the house barbecue sauce really make a difference,” says owner Dan Posternak. Most of…
OK, you want to create the perfect Mexican meal. First, you buy a plane ticket to Oaxaca, Michoacan, Mexico City and the Guadalajara region. In those places, you gather all the ingredients — agave for the tequila, chipotle and tomatillos for the sauces, chorizo for the fajitas and so on. Then, to create an authentic environment, you buy the wares…
French-Canadian food has been hard to find except at Memère’s house and in the diner ambiance of Chez Vachon (625-9660) on Manchester’s West Side, where Chef/owner Paul Normand serves poutine with the proper tangy cheese curds, hearty tourtiere (pork pie) and savory paté called cretons. But a new addition is Frenchy Family Restaurant (524-5299), hidden inside Belknap Mall in Belmont….
Most people think “Shaker cooking” means simplicity, and though they are able to appreciate the aesthetic in architecture and furniture, when applied to cooking the ideal of simplicity suggests boring restrictions, as though a meager bowl of gruel would be the daily fare. Such assumptions could not be further from the truth. For the Shakers, “simplicity” in cooking came in…
Picnic Pickings We asked a few top-notch chefs and local foodies for a few good recipes worthy of a gourmet’s picnic basket. Some items are super simple, some are complex, but all are perfect for a summer evening concert or afternoon at the beach. Our menu: Gorgonzola Stuffed Figs Pork Paté Nutty Slaw Spicy Fried Chicken Red Pesto Potato Salad…
A collection of letters from our valuable readers. From a “Star Player” I will never be able to express how wonderful it was to be a part of New Hampshire Theatre Awards night . The very thought of being recognized and awarded for doing something so rewarding is an amazing concept for me. I love my “kids” and I love…
No Nudes is Good News What were you thinking? This cover is totally inappropriate for my family room coffee table and school. Otherwise, the contents are excellent. Maura Scollin Amherst Music to Her Ears Cheap Shots In general, the April issue was very good. Unfortunately, in your UpFront column, you have taken some “cheap shots” at our governor. I subscribed…
YOU DON’T STOP laughing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop laughing,” says Joanne Dodge of Dover. She’s a firm believer in the positive power of humor, not just for herself but for all. She has taken this belief to seniors throughout the Seacoast area in the hope of getting older people to laugh and enjoy their…
How did the rose get to be the top flower? I could say it’s because it’s the prettiest, but the best way to explain is that it’s the most diversified. If you go to “Redoute 1814-1824” , you’ll come up with about 168 roses. That’s all that existed around the time of Napoleon and Josephine, and she had the largest…
