Far be it from me to ever assume that northern New Hampshire wouldn’t have any good restaurants to choose from. Granted, they are few and far between, but isn’t everything up there? You have to drive 20 miles just to find a gas station, let alone a gourmet restaurant. There are a couple of gems […]
You already know that I love my legumes. I think chick peas may be my favorite (check out my grilled zucchini chick pea salad), but there’s always room for black beans, cannellinis, black-eyed peas and the good ol’ kidney bean. Cate’s fond of the beans too, and I agree with her that they are a […]
Are your gardens starting to produce amazing veggies, green and dark, red and sweet, juicy and perfect? Or, if you live in New England, perhaps you finally have a whole lot of vegetables ready to harvest at once, since we went sunless during June and nothing ripened! It’s not often we think of using vegetables […]
There’s something about a fresh tomato sauce for pasta. It just screams summer, and tastes infinitely better when the tomatoes are locally grown, and even better than that when they are from your own garden. No, it’s true. I’m thinking of conducting a blind taste test to prove it. You’d think that this sauce would […]
This past weekend I was very excited because I was planning on having a fellow foodie over for dinner, so I was getting ready to pull out all the stops. Unfortunately plans changed at the last minute, as they sometimes do. Luckily for me, my life has no shortage of foodies in it, so I […]
