Category: Recipes

Your Tomato Salad Needs a Tomato Dressing

For this fast salad recipe, we top summer’s ripest tomatoes with a bold tomato-based dressing for good measure. Serve as a light lunch with whole-grain toast or pair with grilled steak and chicken for dinner. Heirloom Tomato Salad With Tomato Vinaigrette Active Time: 10 minutes Total Time: 10 minutes Serves 8 2 pounds heirloom tomatoes,…


How to Make Bachelor’s Jam: Fruits, Booze, and Time

Patience is a virtue. Today, with almost our every need easily met by a tap on a touchscreen, that virtue seems to be fading. Yet some of the best lessons in patience can still be found in the hearth and home. It’s in the kitchen that a little bit of effort and plenty of patience…


One Simple Step Will Instantly Upgrade Your Tomato Sandwich

Ripe tomatoes were in abundance this weekend at the farmers market. I usually turn them into tomato sandwiches, but this week I wanted to make my tomato sandwich a little more special. This sandwich is rich and messy, creamy and delicious. The tomatoes are roasted until their flavors are concentrated and the skins have blistered….


Caponata: A Feisty Sicilian Salute to Summer’s End

It’s the end of summer, so why not go out with a bang and make caponata? Caponata is a Sicilian vegetable stew or compote. It slightly resembles Provencal ratatouille, but while both are tomato-rich stews consisting of a bounty of summer vegetables and aromatics influenced by their geography, they diverge from there. Ratatouille typically includes…


You Need This Cheesy Garlic Butter Corn Before Summer Ends

If you, like me, like to squeeze every last bit out of summer before declaring it officially fall, I implore you to make this extra-cheesy, extra-garlicky corn on the cob before you’re out of time. Roast your last ears of corn in the oven until they lightly blister and char, rub them with Parmesan-garlic butter,…


Blistered Shishito Peppers Are an Addicting Snack

If you’re looking for a fun and exciting snack to put out, look no further. This treat is easy to prepare. I was introduced to these little green peppers, and now I can’t get enough of them. Warning: They are addictive. Shishito peppers are an East Asian pepper variety. They’re picked green and their flavor…


Refresh Yourself With a Blueberry Shrub

What’s a shrub? Think of it as a vinegar-based fruit syrup that can be used in myriad ways: as a cocktail mixer, as a refreshing cooler with sparkling water, or as a juice concentrate to ramp up the flavor of many dishes. This drink is hundreds of years old and has recently become popular again….


Summer Breakfasts in Salento

During most of the year, I’m an advocate of breakfast at home. I can toast my home-baked sourdough bread until slightly charred on the edges, wait until it’s just barely warm, then top it with what I fancy the most that day: almond butter and jam, scrambled eggs, smoked salmon, cucumbers. Along with my toast,…


The Family Table: Summer Memories of an Italian-American Jersey Farm Girl

Submitted by Eleanor Rodio Furlong, Naples, Florida I’m a Jersey girl. I’m a farm girl. I’m an Italian American girl. I grew up on a family farm in a small town in rural southern New Jersey. I was the youngest of eight children born to Carlo and Frances Rodio. My mother was 41. Nick, my…


Grilled Romesco Sauce Pairs Perfectly With Chicken

Many variations of romesco sauce, a Catalonian roasted tomato sauce, add roasted red peppers for a little sweetness. Here, the peppers and tomato are scorched on the grill alongside the chicken to keep things simple. Grilled Chicken With Red Pepper-Pecan Romesco Sauce Active Time: 30 minutes Total Time: 30 minutes Serves 4 2 medium red bell…