Blossoms

Meg and Paul have turned a small strip of dirt along side their driveway and planter on wheels into an impressive vegetable garden. The rolling bed lives in the driveway, and can be moved to allow the car to come and go from the garage, making the most of the only sunny patch of [...]

Split Pea and Barley Soup

On New Year’s Day I made a big pot of pea soup. It was delicious. The barley adds a nice chewiness, and the bacon is just added at the end, so the bacon naysayers can have theirs plain, leaving more pork of the rest of us.

Ginger Caramels

I know that at this point after the holidays the last thing anyone really needs is another sweet, but these caramels were quite popular at Christmas and I’ve had several requests for the recipe. And surely in the next month or two there will be a cold, windy day when you’ll really have nothing better [...]

A fig tree grows in Brooklyn

Here I am. Sorry for the prolonged absence. Two weeks ago I moved into a new apartment. The cookbooks are still in a box but I unpacked the last of the pots and pans today. This new place has it’s flaws, not least of which is the wood paneling in the kitchen, but it also [...]

Zucchini, Corn and Tomato Fritters

This recipe is pretty much the reason I started this blog. When I first made these fritters last summer I thought they were so good I needed to tell the whole world about them. I had made zucchini fritters many times before with shredded zucchini and not much else and they were always bland and [...]