The tomatoes in my garden are ripe and delicious. The purple cherokees, in particular, are abundant and as tasty as ever, even if they never are very pretty. I have been waiting until this point to make some tomato-centric dishes, such as this adaptation of Yotam Ottolenghi’s Tomato Galette. It is a fresh tomato, pizza-like…
Cabbage & Kidney Bean Salad
I love cabbage. I always have. When I was a child, my father would make his own cole slaw; although I did not like cole slaw, I would hover around while he shredded the cabbage so he would give me a chunk of the head for me to eat. It was a great treat to…
Zucchini Parmesan Grinders
We still had a large chunk of the huge zucchini left; I wanted to use it for dinner, but I was in a finicky mood. None of my zucchini pastas or casseroles were what I was looking for. But I had this big pile of chopped zucchini to deal with. I love eggplant parmesan grinders,…
Zucchini Bread Pancakes
What do you do when you have a huge zucchini and have made enough zucchini bread (although, really, is there ever enough zucchini bread)? You make zucchini bread pancakes! Arielle was given a zucchini from her friend Tori’s garden. It was huge. She made 4 loaves of zucchini bread and there was still two and…
Turkey and String Bean Stir-Fry
One of the only vegetables that grew at my parents’ house was string beans. They pretty much grew wild along the fence by our picnic table; no one ever planted them. My guess is that they started as a volunteer from our neighbor’s yard and then became quite established. Wherever they came from, I loved…
Peach Time in Delaware – Peach Tart
Delaware used to be one of the top peach growing states in the US – back in the 1800’s that is. Hundreds of thousands of acres of peach trees were harvested in the county I live in. Sadly, in the 1920’s a disease devastated the peach trees and now there are only a handful of…
Truffle Balsamic Tomatoes thanks to our journey to Rhinebeck, NY
We traveled to Rhinebeck, NY to visit our daughter at the camp she is working at. She had the day off, so she was able to join us for a day of hiking and tastings. To burn off some energy, we spent the morning hiking at Ferncliff Forest Preserve. We found the observation tower and…
Roasted Carrots
Usually when I grow carrots they are very sweet; so sweet that they get eaten raw, I don’t get to cook with them. Not so this year. I am not sure why, but they had a little bitterness to them, even the little ones. So, time to roast them and bring out their natural sugars….
Broccoli Cheddar Pockets and My Amazing Snake Rescue
Remember when hot pockets were new? Boy did I think they were cool. So handy, and back then I even thought they were tasty. OK, that was before I discovered fresh, non-processed foods. But I still think they are a neat concept. So I was tickled when I found a recipe for broccoli cheddar pockets…
Rock n’ Roll Chicago Half Marathon
I have always hated running. I hated it as a kid; I would get side stitches and I was slow. I hated it as a teen; I would get side stitches and I was slow. I hated it as an adult; no side stitches, but my knee injuries always flared up and I would get…
Andrea's Garden Cooking 