Better than store-bought: Homemade mayonnaise.
I don’t like mayonnaise. Never have. Not on sandwiches, not in cole slaw, not in potato salad. I don’t even typically keep it in the fridge. I’m thoroughly grossed out by it. Then I had homemade …
Category: Recipes
Adorable mini fruit pies.
How cute are these homemade individual fruit pies? Get the super-easy recipe for mini pies.
Whole-grain salad with tomatoes, corn and smoked mozzarella
I recently had occasion to pull out an old recipe that came from my friend and former colleague, Tricia. For a team potluck lunch eons ago, she brought a salad of wheat berries with tomatoes, corn …
Strawberry jam (again).
My happy jam-making experience last summer—with homemade strawberry, blueberry and tomato jam—had me looking forward to getting out the canning pot and jars all over again. For a household of two people, we managed to go …
Cooking with garlic scapes.
One of the many pleasures of growing your own garlic (see here for a how-to on growing garlic) is the arrival of garlic scapes. These are the little curlicue sprouts that shoot, almost overnight, from the …
French picnic salad in a jar.
This beautiful layered salad in a jar is perfectly portable for a picnic or lunch at the office.
Salad of strawberries and fresh burrata cheese.
I recognize that I’m on a strawberry kick. It’s all part of the sensual pleasure of eating seasonally: Gobbling as much of the best fruit and vegetables—NOW!—while they’re at their delicious peak. Once June wanes, I’ll …
Strawberries with sugared cream.
Make this simple recipe for strawberries with sugared cream now while berries are in season; the cream is also wonderful on other fresh fruit like peaches or blueberries.
Garden glory.
If you have a garden, you know that it yields hair-pulling and frustration, pride and wonder in equal measure—often, all in the same growing season. So I hope you’ll excuse a little bit of the latter …
