Cooking with Kathy, sponsored by Skowhegan Savings, airs twice daily in WSKI-TV 17 at 7:07a.m. & 12:47p.m. When Kathy was visiting the Farmer’s Market in Farmington, she met Mitra Luick from New Sharon, Maine. Mitra raises amazingly tasty chickens, which she feeds with clabber (curdled milk) and whey from the family cow named Helen. These birds get the extra calcium from the clabbered cream and can support more weight. More flesh, more fat, more flavor. The clabber makes the chicken happy and delicious, and a happy bird means a tasty bird. You buy these chickens directly from Mitra, and pick them up at her farm. Her chickens are also air chilled, rather than plunged into an ice bath, which means no water to dilute the flesh. This results in incredibly crispy skin as it cooks. (more…)

Sick of the same old ski breakfast? Kathy Bechtel shows us a quick and easy breakfast that will have the whole house, camp or condo headed to the mountain satisfied. Made with local ingredients like Amber Lambke’s Grist Mill made grains in downtown Skowhegan. Top it all off with a guest apearance from a local producer of maple syrup made right here at Sugarloaf.

Sugarloaf  Cooking with Kathy airs daily on WSKI TV 17 at 7:05am & 12:45pm. (more…)