My friend Marian was over for dinner the other night; she saw all my tomatoes and suggested I make tomato confit. Okay, so I had never had tomato confit. So she told me how to make it and that I would then want to spread it on anything and everything. She was right! Just…
Month: August 2012
Rosemary Mini-Donuts & Mini-Muffins
Time for an experiment… Flying to California this spring, I found a recipe for Rosemary ‘Fonuts’ in the airline magazine “Spirit”. A savory donut…I was going to have to try it. But as I was baking, Arielle tasted the batter and said “This would go well with a vanilla glaze”. So our combo of savory…
Pasta with Potatoes, Green Beans and Pesto
Pasta, potatoes, green beans – sounds heavy, eh? When I first saw Martha Rose Shulman’s recipe combining the three, I was skeptical. But since I always have pesto and, in late summer, lots of green beans, I though I would try it. To everyone’s surprise, the combination was wonderful. Very homey and hearty. It has…
Zucchini, Tomato & Eggs: Pan-cooked and Slow-cooker methods
I love the recipe for pan-cooked zucchini & tomatoes with eggs in Martha Rose Shulman’s Mediterranean Harvest cookbook. It is a ratatouille-like dish, to which eggs are placed on top and then baked. I can’t describe how good this tastes! Here I have done 2 versions of it, one fairly close to her recipe, using summer…
Cammy’s Pesto
By now, you should be aware of how much we like pesto. So, to make sure he always can have pesto to eat, it was time for our “Top Chef” Cammy to make his own. His was just like mine, minus the pine nuts. For the recipe, see my Pesto post. The only problem with…
Ode to Okra, part 1 – Cornmeal Crusted Okra
Growing up in New York City, I never even heard of okra. When I first started experimenting with cooking in college, I was home and wanted to make a brunswick stew, which called for okra. So I asked my mother what okra was, she shrugged and said, dismissively, “some southern vegetable, we don’t use…
‘Sun-Dried’ Tomatoes in the Oven
When I find myself with more tomatoes than counter-space to store them on, I have several options (in addition to sharing them with friends): make sauce, freeze them, or make sun-dried tomatoes. Sun-dried tomatoes are one of my favorite foods, many never make it from the oven into the jars (any ‘imperfection’ is a good…
Watermelon Gazpacho
I stopped at Filasky’s Produce again to pick up corn and fruit and they had their yellow seedless watermelons ready – yum! My friend Kelly O’Neill had sent me her watermelon gazpacho recipe earlier in the summer and it was delicious, so I decided I had to make it with the yellow watermelon. For color…
Fresh Peach Cake
August is peaches. Did you know that Delaware is known for its peaches? The ones used here were grown just 5 miles from my house at Fifer Orchards. And of course, it wouldn’t be one of my baked goods if it did not have Farmer Kim’s eggs. This recipe is Ina Garten’s, from the Food…
Andrea's Garden Cooking 