Sauteed cherries, Bittman-style

Mark Bittman’s “Bitten” blog post today is for sauteeing cherries and eating them with ice cream.  It looks delish… but cherries aren’t in season yet.  Maybe in a month or two…
Read the recipe here.

Summer begins when…

… you first go outside into your garden and your basil is big enough to cut some and not worry about the rest of the plant dying off.
Mmmmm…. basil. I threw the chiffonade of a big handful as well as a diced clove of garlic into a cup of cooked pasta, added salt and [...]

Eating seasonally: asparagus with ginger

What to do with a bounty of asparagus? Ah, if only to regularly have such a problem…

Eating seasonally: swiss and rainbow chard

A dolled-up recipe for sauteeing swiss chard, the bountiful summer green.

CSA starts up: summer is here!

Sorry for the long blogging absence!
We are members of two CSAs(=”Community Supported Agriculture“), one in Illinois and one in Indiana. The one in Illinois, Henry’s Farm, is fairly infamous for its fabulous variety of vegetables, and its servicing of Chicago restaurants. The one in Indiana we’re new to, ECO/TwinCrooks, which works with an [...]