At the beginning of July, when the temperatures start to climb, simple foods served cold or grilled are an antidote to the cloying weather. While I do put up pickled vegetables and other condiments, we don’t tend to eat them throughout the year. Hence my new interest in short-term, small-batch pickling. This one, adapted from [...]
Archive for July, 2010
Turnip and Beet Pickle
Posted in Beets, Pickle, Turnips and rutabagas, tagged pickled beets, Pickled turnips on July 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Plum Berry Sorbet
Posted in Berries, Sorbet, tagged Plum berry sorbet, Plum sorbet on July 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I had some pluots (sometimes called plumcots) and some tiny sugar plums from the farmers’ market of a couple of weeks ago and some stray berries, mostly blueberries and a few raspberries. I decided that they needed to go and we needed some new sorbet. Pluots are a cross between a plum and an apricot [...]
Corn, Okra and Squash Medley
Posted in Okra, Zucchini, tagged Corn okra squash medley on July 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Without the beans, this probably doesn’t qualify as succotash, which is typically characterized as a combination of corn, lima beans and tomatoes. But it was a delicious combo of vegetables from our CSA farm, the farmers’ market and our garden. The corn, first of the season for us, came from the CSA farm. Other than [...]
Paper Chef 54: the Winner
Posted in Paper Chef, tagged Paper Chef on July 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Oh how I love a good read, and good ideas about food, so this monthly cooking event always gets the juices flowing. From a master list posted on Paper Chef, I randomly selected three ingredients – raspberries, zucchini/courgettes, and beans — and I added grains. The ingredients seemed innocent enough, but it seems that the [...]
Pickles: Sweet and Hot
Posted in Pickle, Tigress Can Jam, tagged Sweet hot pickles on July 18, 2010 | 3 Comments »
There’s a certain large picnic that I cook for every August, so I start pickling as soon as small pickling cucumbers show up at the farmers’ markets. This year I did not can any dill pickles, at least not so far, but decided to go back to an old family favorite, bread and butter pickles. [...]
Golden Zucchini Marmalade with Ginger and Lime
Posted in Preserving, Tigress Can Jam, Zucchini, tagged Zucchini ginger marmalade, Zucchini jam on July 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Cucurbits for the July edition of the Tigress Can Jam! In addition to learning a new word, I thought how much fun that’s going to be. I have wanted to can something with melon but I bet that our first local melons would be coming in just at the end of this month’s Can Jam. [...]
Wheat Berry Salad with Zucchini, Fava Beans and Raspberry Sauce
Posted in Berries, Grains, Paper Chef, Salad, Zucchini, tagged Wheat berry salad on July 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
For Paper Chef 54, I randomly drew three ingredients – raspberries, zucchini/courgettes and beans – and got to choose a fourth – grains. I was interested in the theme of seasonality, with a liberal interpretation, knowing that participants in Paper Chef come from all over the world. When the selections came up, I was pleased [...]
Flowers of the Week
Posted in Flowers on July 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Our CSA farm grows the most amazing flowers, which we pick every week based on the size of our share. The flower fields opened this week and I was excited to split my 16-stem allotment between snapdragons and nicotiana. Later there will be a greater number of stems available, which will allow for some dramatic [...]
Gratin of Beets and Beet Greens
Posted in Beets, tagged Beet gratin on July 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In the New York Times, some of the best ideas for preparing food come not from the Dining section but from Health. Martha Rose Schulman writes “Recipes for Health,” a column that highlights an ingredient and, over the course of a week, shows several ways of preparing it in a healthful, typically low calorie manner. [...]
The Most Amiable Summer Cake
Posted in Berries, Cake, tagged Cherry cake, Raspberry cake on July 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a very quick summer cake that has appeared all over the Internet in the past year, maybe even earlier. It was published in the much loved but now defunct Gourmet Magazine about a year ago. It was called Raspberry Buttermilk Cake and I admit to having made it with raspberries, blackberries, cherries, and blueberries, [...]
