A few folks have been asking how the planning for the rebuild next winter is going so we thought we’d give you a quick update. We have made the decision to haul the schooner out at North End Shipyard for this project, keeping jobs local and supporting our local economy. It will be nice to have [...]
Annie is planning now for when you arrive this summer. Just a few weeks ago she got out the greenhouses and started winter sowing seeds. In the garden she has been planting peas, carrots, and mesclun.” It’s only March!” “Are you crazy?” Are just a few of the comments we’ve heard, but in Maine the [...]
There’s always a reason to pick up knitting needles and delicious yarn, and now we have a very good reason to do just that. From now until March 26th, as a fundraiser for the Ashwood Waldorf School, we will be knitting as many 8” squares as we can and gathering pledges & sponsors per square [...]
One of the many projects we’ve been working on this winter has been with a talented Maine-based film crew, putting together a television show focused on Annie’s food, the Riggin and local produce abundantly found in Maine. We’re now at a point where a major network could snatch it up. Though we don’t know where [...]
Three weeks ago the National Trust for Historic Preservation named the 2010 Dozen Distinctive Destinations. What a surprise and pleasure it was to read that Rockland Maine was named one of them! Of course if you’ve been to Rockland, and the Riggin for that matter, you already know what a great place it is. We are incredibly [...]
In Chef Annie’s cookbook At Home, At Sea you’ll find lots of recipes, details about a week at sea on the Schooner J&E Riggin, photos and my personal favorite part of the book – the vignettes. On a page with a great recipe for New England Boiled Dinner and a killer Mustard Sauce is a [...]
What do these three things have in common? Well, this past July the Food Network brought Chef Bobby Flay to town to challenge Rockland resident and restaurant owner Lynn Archer of the Brass Compass to make a lobster club sandwich. Now the Brass Compass and its “wicked good” Lobster Club Sandwich has already received kudos [...]
Maine Food & Lifestyle has once again chosen to publish one of Chef Annie’s recipes from At Home, At Sea on their blog Plating Up. This vegetarian recipe for Tomato, Mascarpone and Kalamata Olive Pasta is very simple and unique. Mascarpone is a rich and creamy cow’s milk cheese that is often used Tiramisu. It [...]
Getting our schooner ready for the season is a little like getting a broadway show ready for it's run. If you aren't done, the curtain is rising anyway. In the midst of what some years becomes crazy chaos as we near our first sailing date, our kids still have school (and need to get there [...]
