Caramelized Onion, Fig & Goat Cheese Pizza with Arugula Amazing fig and goat cheese pizza with caramelized onion, goat cheese, and an easy homemade 100% whole-wheat pizza dough! Ingredients: For the whole wheat pizza dough: ¾ cup warm low-fat milk to 110-115 degrees F ½ tablespoon honey 1 tablespoon olive oil 2 1/4 teaspoons instant […]

Turkey Meatballs with Orzo & Creamy Feta Yogurt Sauce A delicious take on meatballs with a nod to Greece: turkey meatballs with lemon orzo, tender veggies, and a creamy feta yogurt sauce. These healthy baked meatballs are filled with tons of wonderful herbs and make the perfect protein-packed weeknight meal! Servings 4 servings Ingredients For the feta […]

Who was Vladimir Arsenyev? And why would Mainers want to read his writings or see a movie based on them? I’ll tell you. Arsenyev was born in Russia in 1872 and died there in 1930. That means he was born during the Russian Empire, was alive during the Russian Revolution in 1917, and lived 13 […]

Last summer, when “Top Gun: Maverick” was making roughly all the money printed in the United States during that fiscal quarter, I read a number of articles (many publications jumped on the trend at once) calling Tom Cruise various iterations of “The Last Movie Star.” The moniker is obviously an exaggeration – Leonardo DiCaprio and […]

Mussels in Spicy Red Sauce Mussels are delicious, inexpensive, and a good source of low-fat protein! What more could you ask for? Serve this dish with a salad and crusty bread Serves 4 Ingredients: Red Sauce: 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 tablespoon minced garlic (6 cloves) 1 to 2 teaspoons crushed red pepper 1 cup […]

I was doing a crossword and a clue read, “Crazy Guggenheim, e.g.” The answer was three letters ending in T. Crazy Guggenheim sounded familiar, but I couldn’t connect it to anything. For some reason, the word “fumblerooski” came to mind. Did the crossword clue refer to some trick play in football, something similar to the […]

A quick explanation about this week’s movies: with an estimated $40 million at the domestic box office, “Sound of Freedom” had the most money at the end of the weekend. But because it made it a point of opening on Tuesday, July 4, instead of the usual Friday, it had a three-day head start over […]

Doesn’t hydrogen seem like the perfect fuel of the future? It’s everywhere! Literally 90% of the universe. A pound of hydrogen gas contains three times the energy of a pound of gasoline. When it burns it produces water, with zero carbon emissions! What’s the hold-up with saving the planet with hydrogen fuel?! Well, there are […]