Simple, classic and local — all from the farmers market yesterday. I roasted the beets while cleaning this morning, so they’d be ready to complete our dinner when we returned this evening. I hate to clean and tend to reward myself with food. The smells of simmering apple sauce or the happy longing for food […]
Use this as a template for any bulgur salad, served warm or at room temperature.Throw in what’s fresh and local, cooked or raw, cut into small pieces as needed. Use contrasting colors, flavors and textures, and always a handful of coarsely chopped herbs or greens. This season, why not try chopped apples, tossed in a […]
Chanterelle Vodka Taste the woods in an earthy shot of vodka. Pick or buy a scant handful chanterelles from your local forager, or as I did at the farmers market from a vendor, in this case Leslie Taft at Blue Moon Shrooms, who suggested I try this. Add to a small glass jar with a […]
Before the killing frost, make sure to pick up some readily available eggplant and arugula. I bought my eggplant at the biggest organic farm stand in New York, McEnroe’s in Millerton. It’s firm to the touch with shiny purple skin. The arugula is from my back garden, now a little leggy and spicy and but […]
Simple is best with the last of the tomatoes: Drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle with salt, pop in your mouth, close your eyes and remember. Hang on to the hope that there will be no blight next season, but an abundant crop — a sea of staked tomato vines heavy with multi-colored fruit.
Orecchiette and Broccoli Rabe with Cherry Tomatoes Opposites attract. And so today, as summer meets early fall, I’m celebrating the play of sweet and bitter. This dish pairs broccoli rabe, a tangy relative of the turnip, with candy-like cherry tomatoes. They mingle happily on neutral turf — orecchiette, a pasta translated as “little ears,” which […]
I hate to clean, don’t you? Smell, and so naturally taste is my most alert sense. So, I find it helps to clean to the simmering of something fragrant. This year our apple tree, bought when we escaped Manhattan, finally yielded a great crop. They’re funky, of course, because of the rain and lack of […]
My pal Ruth has an affinity for birds, although I can’t seem to connect. And so her 50th birthday, a friendly potluck affair, counted a green parakeet, Boodle, and 25 hens as guests. Actually we looked over the porch at the hens, penned in what reminded my husband, Tommy, of a Hollywood prisoner of war […]
So the apple season has arrived — crisp and tart, mouth puckering. I try to resist the early apples, because they don’t have that biting fall flavor, but rather Paula Reds do the trick. If anyone is out there yet, let me know what varieties do it for you…. Tomorrow I’m going to a friend’s […]
Barebones, but satisfying, my weekend guests called it seminal, so I’m posting it here. The recipe, created for ease, is a kind of abbreviated Pasta Carbonara, with hearty whole wheat pasta mingled with bacon, punctuated with hot chili pepper flakes. Serve with local greens, either cooked up or in a salad. Look for local bacon […]
USDA approved school-tested local food recipes and a supplement for educators.
