Here in suburban New York we’re enjoying an extended Indian summer. While unseasonable seasons make me nervous—I won’t digress here about global warming—balmy days do offer some benefits. Like an extended harvest—and a bumper crop of Kirby cucumbers at my local farm stand. I ... [Read More] [3 Comments. Please leave another.]
Homemade Caponata Recipe
After two weeks travel in India during the hot and humid monsoon season, reentry to New York this week seemed especially frigid. Isn’t mid-September usually warm and balmy? With just a nip of cool air in the mornings and evenings? We're not supposed to weather tornadoes here ... [Read More] [2 Comments. Please leave another.]
Panzanella: Italian Bread Salad with Bocconcini and Local Tomatoes Recipe
They’re finally here. Ripe, luscious, locally-grown tomatoes. All year long I dream about these juicy fruit/vegetables. And now that they’ve arrived, we’re eating them every single day. For lunch and dinner. You don’t need to do much to dress up a perfect, sun-ripened ... [Read More] [5 Comments. Please leave another.]
Lemony White Bean and Flat Bean Salad Recipe
At my local farm stand the fresh beans, heaped in bushel baskets, always call to me. Especially the flat Italian green beans. Since they’re grown locally, these large, luscious beans aren’t always available. So when they’re in season, I tend to overbuy and hoard ... [Read More] [Leave a comment]
Marinated Mozzarella and Sun-Dried Tomato Salad Recipe
One of my hot-weather dinner ploys involves getting up early and cooking part of dinner—beans or pasta for salads, boiled eggs or salt potatoes, or meatloaf for sandwiches—before the day heats up. But early morning hours are also my most productive writing times. Especially ... [Read More] [3 Comments. Please leave another.]
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