I’ve been watching the beans swell in the bean patch and calculating when the time might be ripe for a harvest. The moment arrived yesterday with friends coming for dinner. I was amazed to see what a bounty my little plants had provided. These are the Italian Romanette variety, a wide and flat bush bean […]
Tags:beans·dinner·entertaining·garden·summer
We have spared no effort in our relentless search for the world’s best pickles. Meaning, we pulled every book with a pickling recipe from our cookbook library and dove in. This particular preparation for mustard pickles involves no fermentation or anything even resembling a fermentation, unless you count the soaking overnight in hot water. It […]
My wife does not like cooked squash at all–it’s a textural thing. So we’ve found ways to eat squash raw. This is our version of a squash carpaccio, using the Italian striped squash from the garden, sliced very thinly, along with a fresh Maryland goat cheese and a chiffonade of our own basil. Season with […]
Tags:garden·summer·summer squash
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