Tomato-cheddar gratin.
Tomatoes are still in season. Get yourself 3 nice, ripe ones, a pile of cheddar cheese and some cracker crumbs. Boom! The best tomato dish you’ll have all year, no doubt. It’s an oldie but goodie. Get the recipe.
Tag: peppers
Easy summer tomato gazpacho.
Just recently, I tasted the first perfect tomato of the summer: fully ripe and flavorful. Which means it’s time for this easy gazpacho soup recipe.
Roasted carrot and red pepper salad.
Roasted carrots and red pepper combine with cumin and an easy tahini dressing to make an unconventional salad: no lettuce required!
Grilled red bell pepper and egg sandwich.
This grilled red bell pepper and egg sandwich, an Italian classic, is ridiculously easy and ridiculously good.
Pasta with shrimp and vegetables.
The joy of cooking when you’re on vacation lies in using local ingredients and preparing them without fuss. This shrimp pasta recipe is a great example of vacation cooking.
Creamy vegetable chowder.
This vegetable soup has a sweet-corn base, with a confetti of brightly colored summer vegetables. Flavorful, low-cal and low-fat, to boot!
Super-flavorful vegetable tart.
My roasted-vegetable tart didn’t look as pretty as the one in the magazine, but boy is it delicious!
Roasted red-pepper sauce (romesco).
A glut of red bell peppers in my garden—they ripened all at once—sent me scrambling for a way to use several of them quickly. A Romesco sauce immediately came to mind. Romesco originates in Catalonia, Spain, …
Garbage gazpacho.
Though my smallish frame might indicate otherwise, my eyes are often bigger than my stomach. And so it is that in summertime I kind of overbuy produce. Everything looks so good at the farmers’ market and, …
