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What to Do with Tomatoes, Cucumbers, and Stale Bread: Make Panzanella
At last, we have ripe tomatoes, really ripe ones, red through and through and sweet. I get to pick them out of the hoop house here in the garden, and maybe you have ripe ones in your garden, too....
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Peggy’s Good All-Purpose Tomato Sauce with a Side of Gazpacho
Thick, rich tomato sauce ready for pasta. Tomatoes abound in the garden right now and so do most other vegetables. We are wallowing happily in the abundance, though I will admit to the occasional panic...
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Time for Pie with Maine Peaches
The peaches on my Reliant and Red Haven trees are ripe and ready. Now, every year that I go into raptures over the wonderful flavor of my peaches, one of my regular readers writes to say that there...
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A Good Thing to Do with Chutney
When the peaches here are super ripe and thudding to the ground in the slightest breeze, I race around like mad trying to scoop them up before the hornets eat them and they melt into the ground. I’ve...
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Sweet Red Pepper Relish to Brighten Winter Meals
The trusty old hand-cranked grinder makes perfect relish every time. Some of you may have pepper plants enjoying this late blast of summer weather and some of them may be turning red. This recipe sent...
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The Joy of Summer Squash: A Few Ideas for Cooking and Keeping
A pan full of chopped zucchini, yellow squash and patty pan squash. Despite the fact that early on in the season some of us weary of summer squash—zucchini, yellow squashes, patty pans—some of us keep...
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Basil’s Last Gasp in a Peanut Sauce
We haven’t had a frost yet, but it won’t be long, and the basil, what is left of it, is looking pretty patchy these days. It is time to use it up before it succumbs to the cold. I’ve had this recipe...
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Pumpkin Spice Cake
This year the compost pile sprouted a couple of pumpkin vines. One yielded pumpkins big enough for jack-o’lanterns, the other produced seven pie pumpkins. A lucky thing because the two hills of...
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How to Cook a Delacorn
Last week’s recipe used a product of my compost pile, one of seven pumpkins which sprang up uninvited but very welcome which I used in a spice and pumpkin cake. Many of you observed that the cake...
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Lots of us were without electricity this week which some of us need it to bake. Fortunately for me, Ruth Thurston in Machias had sent along a couple of good pumpkin recipes in response to my request...
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