The cutting edge

When you’re cutting something odd-shaped into small squares, such as a potato or a chicken breast, first slice it lengthwise into the desired thickess. Stack these slices. Then cut lengthwise down through the slices to make a stack of long strips. Keep the...

Waste not . . .

After a week of making sandwiches for volunteer lunches at the Friends of the Library book sale, I had a sackful of bread ends I’d stashed and the obvious thing to do was bread pudding, an Island favorite. Bread pudding is one of those dishes with infinite...