My son Michael narrowed his eyes and scowled with concentration. He was standing in front of the open refrigerator, trying to help me figure out dinner on the hottest day of June. “Mom, is there any reason we couldn’t put those leftover red potatoes in a pasta salad?”
I thought for a moment and couldn’t come [...]
Tomatoes, lovely tomatoes. I could rhapsodize for hours on the joys of perfectly ripe tomatoes. THESE are the tomatoes that I dream of all winter when the only tomatoes I can buy are pale, juiceless shadows of the real thing.
One of our readers, Mary, who lives in Costa Rica, just sent me this recipe. It sounds delicious and since both Laura and I are doing the chicken-without-a-head-running-around thing, I am delighted to share this treasure with you!
Origins, Layering, and Gravity sum up the remaining questions some of you have been asking about the green flash drink.
Question #2: Where did you get this recipe?
I mentioned in the original Green Flash post that Dave and I had
We are in the very depths of the cottage refrigerator, finishing things off before we leave. This morning, we had an amazing breakfast.
Since we actually HAD dinner last night with Auntie Ellen and her family and it actually involved sausage pasta (how’s that for coincidence, LB) I thought I would share the ingredients to our salad as well.
Dave reminices about his grandpa’s favorite drink recipe:
“From when I was very young I remember my father serving my grandmother (Kirk) Sidecars. Her husband was Howard and back in the day, he would make pitchers of Sidecars for guests at happy hour at ‘the Point’ where the family cottage has been for almost 100 years.
The [...]
I want to make a quick addition to LB’s original “Kosher Dill Pickles” entry. Through a series of happy circumstances, Dave bought a huge box of pickling cucumbers for only $2. After we ate as many fresh, sliced cucumbers as we could, it became apparent that some of them needed to become pickles.
Fortunately, Auntie Karen [...]
One of the enduring traditions here in this little vacation community (started over 100 years ago by a whole flock of Chicago ministers) is a ritual Happy Hour. Folks who have grown up spending summers together every year since they were born traipse around to each other’s cottages for Happy Hour. Sometimes this is at [...]
Today, my youngest son Michael and I exercised all our creative powers in this very limited old cottage kitchen. We’re really too far away to easily run into town for things. We’re also often the last ones to stay here for the season, so we’re always using up the last bits of things that others [...]
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