Sort of salad, sort of pasta It’s hot outside. Farm stand and homegrown tomatoes are at their peak and available everywhere. Here in Tennessee my basil is loving the humidity. Perfect conditions for a fresh tomato pasta. I rely on this recipe throughout tomato season for lots of reasons. It’s not served hot so the [...]
A Salad, a Pasta, it’s Perfect
August 18, 2010
July 7, 2010
Tossed steakhouse–everything in one bowl. The ultimate one-dish meal for leftover steak. Cube the steak into bite-size pieces for easy eating.
May 25, 2010
We both remember when our mothers got their first microwave ovens back in the 70s. It was a huge deal meant to revolutionize home cooking. Our mothers were studying new cookbooks that touted whole meals in minutes. Everything went into the microwave, but not everything turned out like the picture. Remember all that gray hamburger [...]
May 1, 2010
Now that our patios are officially open for business, we’ve been busy tidying up the grill area. (Scroll down the page a bit for R.B.’s handy check-list so you can get your summer grill season going.) The big spring clean up is key for clearing the cold weather recipes out of our heads and making [...]
April 24, 2010
The smoky boil continues to top our list of liquid smoke uses. The aroma in the kitchen makes us think that my uphill neighbor Roger has a fire going. No joke. Liquid smoke is the real deal and fantastic in this application. This smoky eggplant II is a simple mash of smoke boiled eggplant, olive [...]
April 14, 2010
Tennessee tomatoes project 2010 includes lots of lentil tabbouli.
April 7, 2010
Read this New York Times Loser Lettuce story by Mark Bittman. I hope it makes you think twice about branding an ingredient as cool or not. Isn’t that a little too junior high? Food professional Mark Bittman turns out to be a trend follower, not a leader, after all. He confesses to having snubbed iceberg [...]
February 1, 2010
After a bountiful year of farmers’ market and CSA fruit and vegetable mother lodes, what’s a salad-craving, vegetable-loving low-carbon footprint locavore to do in February? Stick your head in the supermarket freezer and say hey to Clarence Birdseye, that’s what. And let Frozen Freshness Month begin. More than just a brand name, the real Mr. [...]
January 14, 2010
I wondered what my daughter Elsa and I would crave once home from our recent school trip through China. Over there we shied away from the raw salads because of the “don’t drink the water” issue. Though I sneaked a few bites of some delicious pickle-y, cabbagy greens and couldn’t resist the sliced cucumber. [...]
December 17, 2009
We first recommended Shrimp Cocktail Salad for a holiday dinner. It also make a great crisp, cool, quick supper.
Get tips for making perfect skillet cornbread. It's the only bread to serve with summer fresh vegetable suppers. 
