Last night, I got a craving for melon so fierce, it made me writhe. Lucky for me it’s melon season. Today the girls and I went to the store and paid a lot of money for a local melon. The smell of it drove me wild in the car. I cut the thing open, and…
roasted tomatoes for the freezer
You might actually just want to eat them off the tray and have your way with them then and there. But if you can wait, you will thank yourself in a few months. The miracle of all this is that if you roast them with garlic and herbs, it’s sauce in a bag. How’s that…
roasted green salsa
And I’m here in New England, but I want spice. I’m one part Jew and one part Brit, but in August- my heart belongs to New Mexico. Roasted Green Salsa 3/4 pound tomatillos, quartered3/4 pound green zebra (or really any) tomatoes, cored and quartered1 red onion, cut into chunks1 head garlic, cloves, separated and peeled1…
fish tacos, or, the cilantro thing
Okay, let’s talk about fish tacos. And also about…cilantro. Let me preface this discussion with two warnings. I don’t want you to feel like I’ve left you unprepared for what could happen here. The first is that it is difficult to talk about fish tacos without also wanting to eat fish tacos immediately. I mean…
stone fruit slump
We’re all a bit silly around here this week. The end of the summer, perhaps, the changing of the air pressure–who can explain it? Or maybe it might have something to do with the ruby orbs so recently hanging on our little wee plum trees. We planted our orchard two years ago- nine trees of…
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