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Basil in Wonderland (with tomatoes)
Posted by Chie We had the honor of visiting Ralph and Jan’s magical garden today. It’s filled with love; with the fragrance of roses and lilac, peace and serenity. One of the highlights is their...
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Aprium shortcake
I went to the market last week looking for organic apricots and found them. Sort of. What ended up in my shopping basket were apriums, a mix of apricot and plum that are harvested in early summer....
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Rainier cherry sparkler
I read an essay last week by Catherine Newman in the most recent (and, sadly, final) issue of Brain, Child Magazine. A letter to her younger self, the piece is typical of Newman: sharp-witted and...
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Plum purée
My friend Anne tells me that the plums growing back behind the raspberry canes in her yard are a Japanese variety. They ripen to a deep purple and become so plump that a wayward fingernail can pierce...
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Nectarine hand pies
I brought home a pound of nectarines last week and actually felt sad that I’d earmarked them for a recipe. They were perfect. Apriums? Bah. I begrudgingly concluded that the next best thing to a bowl...
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Plum jam + a conference
I think I mentioned before that our plum tree was so laden with fruit that its branches had to be held out of the way with rope and ratchets. The main branch was bowing so low to the ground that its...
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Pesto
The other day my friend Larry told me that when he was a boy, he used to take the bus down to Fisherman’s Wharf with his brother to go fishing. The two boys, they were no more than 10 or 12 years old,...
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Apricot salsa fresca
I tried the bright orange one first. It was firm and sweet and, compared to samples of the other three available varieties, it tasted the most like an apricot. I’m sure a batch preserved wouldn’t last...
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Rain comes down
When it rains, it pours. Bad news comes in threes. Luck is on loan. I’m a bystander this week. In my circles, people were hit again and again with bad news. We received too many important phone calls....
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A pound of tiny strawberries
A couple of weeks ago my father-in-law and I went rummaging through their neighbor’s groundcover, uncovering tiny strawberries. Even the largest ones were no bigger than the fingernail on my index...
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Golden jam
Last spring we planted a stand of ‘Anne’ raspberries, between the fence and the walkway in the back yard. These are golden raspberries, plump sweet ones that grew all through the summer, in defiance of...
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Cherries and the lavender air
Since I didn’t know what to cook the other night, I asked my daughter to gather some lettuce from the kids’ garden. We have to eat it soon, I’m sure. We’ve had weeks of warm, dry weather. It may only...
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Plum and prune
About a month ago I found a flyer hanging on the front gate. I thought it might be an invitation to the neighborhood block party or another solicitation from a hopeful investment adviser. But this one,...
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Fruit plate for one (+ one) : sponsored post
Thank you to Lesley Stowe Fine Foods for sponsoring this post. My mom put that first meal in front of me, not an hour after we first brought our daughter home. She knew what to do in that blissed-out...
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Fresh at IFBC
This is one of three posts required of food bloggers who attended the 2014 IFBC conference in exchange for a lowered conference fee. I determine the content and receive no compensation or gifts for...
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