For Chelsea Manquero, who spent time here last week with her partner Dax as they helped me put the gardens to bed, there was a happy connection between fried green tomatoes and her grandmother. Not because her grandmother made them but because her grandmother always loved to get them at a favorite restaurant the family […]
Some of us have had a hard frost and the summer squashes are all blackened, probably relegated to the compost pile. Some of us, like me, have had a zinger of cold, enough to knock the basil down and put an end to yellow squash. Somehow the zucchini are still going, though we picked all […]
These crisp little numbers strike a middle ground between cookie and cracker, another take-with-tea-or-coffee-treat like shortbread or a scone. They are ridiculously easy to make and the ingredients are common pantry items. I have no idea where this recipe came from. I found it in my computer where it merely looked like this: “2oz su, […]
The corn crop here is winding down, maybe another dozen ears or so for us to eat, and some more to cut off the cob to freeze for later. We had help in the garden and in eating corn on the cob this past week with a delightful couple, Chelsea Manquero and Dax Colison, who […]
Fast, simple, delicious and wholesome, mostly. Ruth Thurston in Machias supplied this recipe that she found on a yellowed newspaper clipping, quite possibly, she thinks, clipped from this very paper years ago. It’s worth a repeat for sure, and a little tweaking, of course, while we still have zucchinis squirting from our plants out in […]
This recipe yields a dish that tastes like it takes more effort than it actually requires, that somehow the peach flavor is deeper than it would be if the peaches were merely raw or lightly stewed, and that you fiddled around making an elegant little sauce to dribble over the peaches and ice cream on […]
Surely you don’t have too much zucchini: surely the one plant you grew (you didn’t plant a whole row, did you???) isn’t squirting out little squashes faster than the blink of an eye, nor are your friends and relatives pressing arm loads on you. Hah! So here is our perhaps twelfth annual what to do […]
A few days ago, I made appetizers for a gathering, dusting off a recipe you read here a few years ago called Jalapeno Cheese Bites. And because there is quite a lot of cauliflower coming out of the garden right now – hurrah – it occurred to me that a grand way to use it […]
Quite a few of us have friends among our summer communities here in Maine, and as summer whizzes by chances to spend time with them are getting scanter and scanter. So quickly, before they have to return to their year-round homes, invite one over, get out a nice teapot and brew up a couple of […]
There are a lot of cucumbers out there in the garden right now (and that goes twice for summer squash). We are picking every single day to keep ahead of them. Surely dill pickles will be in the offing but what to do when the year’s supply is assured? Well, cucumber sandwiches, big fat ones […]
