French lentil salad with Latin-American flavors Lentil salad went through some bad years in the 80s and 90s, usually flaccid and overdressed, filled with canned…
Flan, aka Creme Caramel, with Burnt Sugar I’ve never made flan before, so I had a bit of trepidation when my sister-in-law requested it for…
Salad of Puntarelle, Tiny Potatoes and Teleme Sarina and I both fell in love from afar with these tiny little potatoes from Olsen Farms. We…
Everything but the salt and olive oil was local on this one. Purple Viking potatoes and Purple Cherokee tomatoes from our backyard, chili de arbol…
Heirloom Tomato Tart While we are on a roll with the pastry crusts, let’s not forget the wonderful savory possibilities! For this one I used…
Roasted Tomato and Corn Risotto Slow roasting tomatoes is alchemy. You put base metal in the oven and a few hours later, you’ve got gold.…
Peach and Nectarine Crostata Crostata: pie without the fuss. With a pie (or tart), it can be hard to make one as pretty as the…
Grilled Eggplant with Fresh Arrabiata In the course of planning an Italian-oriented meal, it occurred to me that an arrabiata sauce has mostly the same…
Just goofing off… what happens if you glue a cherry tomato to a cherry? In this case a Sun Gold tomato and a Rainier cherry.…
We’ve got some beautiful end-of-summer produce right now, including items that we’ll only see for a few short weeks. Zucchini blossoms seem to be at…