This is an easy tart to make, and the brown butter crust makes it just a little different, easy because the crust is press-in, no rolling! One of my fondest memories growing up in rural New England was the annual trek with my mother and grandmother to an old abandoned farm a few roads away…
Month: July 2019
English Peas with Brown Butter & Honey
We wait for them all year, and happily, our patience is rewarded with these quick-cooking emeralds of the garden! When our peas come in, we eat them as often as possible because we blink, and they are gone. The rest of the year, we satisfy the craving with the frozen peas available to us all,…
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Farmers Market Stir-fry over Buckwheat Spaghetti!
The weekly market is about more than just stocking up on produce. It’s a social gathering place, a music event, educational arena, and a place to discover things you never knew you wanted or needed. Most markets in our area are once a week, unless the “city” here in Vermont is on the larger side,…
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Broccolini Salad with Toasted Garlic
Inspired by local produce treasures, this remake of broccoli salad will please (almost) everyone! You never know what you are going to find at the farmers market or the farm stand this time of year. This week, I found some lovely, just-picked broccolini in flower and I knew I would use every part of it…
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Spiced Currants
Slightly tart, slightly sweet, this vintage recipe needed little to enhance its flavor. My luck was with me when I found some beautiful currants at the farmers market this week. In our area, they arrive with the blueberries and are gone in a blink, a favorite of the birds as well as the humans, so…
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What in the world is aRumtum Diddy?
It’s a funny name, but this inexpensive Depression-era dish will feed a family quickly and deliciously. While researching Depression-era recipes for a different project, I came across several versions of an old New England supper staple during these hard times –– “Rinktum Diddy” or Rum Tum Diddy or Rum Tim Ditty. No one seemed to…
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Three Cabbage Carnival Salad
It is kind of a slaw, kind of a cabbage salad, it’s full of color, and it feeds a crowd! It is summer cookout time, and we gather together, bringing food and conversation to the table. If I’m asked to bring a salad, I like to stray from the old standby recipes of potato salad,…
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Grilled Fish Tacos with Cherry & Radish Salsa
The cherries are in season, so why not use them rather than an imported fruit? Cherry salsa? Why not? We often serve fish tacos with the popular mango salsa, and when I was thinking about making fish tacos recently, I knew I needed to come up with an alternate fruit because of an allergy ––…
