A Few Personal Cooking (and Eating)Trends

A Few Personal Cooking (and Eating)Trends

I adore cooking and look forward to the summer season to make a few favorites with our tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers. We grew both sauce tomatoes and sandwich tomatoes as well as grape and yellow cherry tomatoes called Sungolds. I always make gazpacho with the first tomatoes served with shrimp and homemade croutons. Gazpacho recipe…

Summertime Doing
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Summertime Doing

Certain elements feel like Summer. Are almost necessary for Summer to achieve Summer-ness.   There’s bubbles, fireflies, sparklers, s’mores, and “swimming”, which just means being in “woger” to Fiona. On the Shore here, Summertime means local food. Crabs, corn, tomatoes, and cantaloupe. And all activities related to obtaining these yummy ingredients.   We went dip…

The Stove, She Is Fixed
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The Stove, She Is Fixed

When last I spoke of the stove, the story wasn’t going well. Sears had “messed” up. All their kiss butt customer service people couldn’t put it back together again. And I had given up hope. But not Mark (or Kathy). No. He was the picture of perseverance. He went online to a company called PartSimple…