Top 10 recipes for the Fourth of July.
Is it me, or is it super lame when a holiday falls in the middle of the week. I mean, c’mon! Really? Just one day off from work? No long weekend? What gives? [Thanks, Gregorian Calendar.] …
Tag: seasonal recipes
On the road: Eating, cooking in Asheville.
With our dearest friends, we spent a long weekend in Asheville recently. We had eating and drinking on our agenda—specifically, sampling some local brews, hitting a couple of casual restaurants and, most important, stocking up at …
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 …
Free-form strawberry tart.
Some folks I know are intimidated by pie crust, thinking that it’s too difficult to handle and too easy to mess up. If you count yourself among them, then I have two suggestions: First, try my …
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.
