We hope you’re here to read about the new Maine Coast Men Cookbook, to be given free to each attending man at the Spring 2026 Maine Coast Men Weekend Retreat. Our aim is to get every MCM attendee, both present and past, to submit at least one recipe (and maybe two) for us to include in this cookbook project. The project will be funded by the Maine Coast Men Auction that we hold at each weekend retreat. Specifically, we’re pooling the funds collected from the Fall 2024, Spring 2025 and Fall 2025 MCM weekends to pay for the printing of these cookbooks.

In addition to the recipes, we would love to include a photo of you, cropped from the most recent MCM weekend group photo that you attended, or if you prefer, a photo sent to us by you (send a .jpg file to Dan Kirchoff at danielakirchoff@gmail.com). As natural storytellers, we also would love to have the story behind the recipes you submit to us, where you found the recipe, perhaps where you prepared it and perhaps for whom, if that’s relevant to the story. It’s one thing to have a wonderful recipe to try out, and it’s so much more if we know the sordid (well, sometimes sordid, sometimes not) tale behind it.

We hope you’re here to submit a recipe and you can do so using the form below.

Give us your name so we know who you are.
Let us know how to contact you
Let's start with the title of your recipe.
Okay, we need the ingredients for your recipe. List them here.
Now, give us step-by-step instructions for creating this dish.
We hope you'll let us put your photo next to your recipe. It's always nice to see who submitted a recipe in the MCM Cookbook.
Looking through any cookbook, one is curious about where these recipes come from and who submitted them. More than that, we love to hear how you came about this recipe, when have you cooked this dish, and what are your memories of it. It's more than just a cookbook, it's a record of our lives. We sincerely hope you'll give us the story behind this recipe.