As a youngster, my parents would send me out to collect the raspberries growing in our backyard. We were give a gallon size plastic ice cream bucket and told we had to fill up the bucket before we returned to the house.
As kids, we didn’t appreciate having these delicious fruits growing right in our back [...]
So it’s taken us two weeks to get the blog back on track after a mid-week all-nighter, canning tomatoes. It got so late, we couldn’t get through them all, and their subsequent superabundance in the kitchen has been something of an albatross. The last of them are thankfully going into a bouillabaisse later this week.
Tarte tatin is one of the best dishes ever invented. You can’t say no to perfectly puffed pastry, topped with toffee-glazed apples, or pears, or peaches, or even apricots. So when we saw this recipe for a caramelized tomato tart tatin in the online New York Times, we knew we would be trying it [...]
Named after Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, this simple and sublime confection is a delicious solution to the problem of those slightly over-ripe summer berries you have languishing in the back of your fridge. In under fifteen minutes, you have whipped farm-fresh egg whites to dazzling peaks, and assigned your bounty of berries to a worthy [...]