Live Qualitarian: Eat Well
Chanterell Pizza For our mushroom fest, every one likes the hearty ones, and we all revere the Chanterelle. And fear screwing it up. The taste of this mushroom is so delicate it’s important not to overwhelm it. It is floral and sweet. Honey mixed with a sweet earth taste, more
Here comes the pizza starring Boletus Edulus – ready for the oven. Lucia made this pizza with a whole-wheat crust, which she painted with basil pesto, piled on mushrooms, then topped with chunks of fresh mozzarella cheese, basil leaves and fresh tomato slices. Using a couple cups of chopped and
Each pizza came to life with a different mushroom. All afternoon was set aside for a hike on a perfect in mid-July day. Not more than 15 minutes into the hike, a iron-brown stone turned out to be a mushroom of the very best kind — a King Bolete —
Before there was Too Much Zucchini Cavelli is the variety of summer squash we planted, not knowing what it would look like. In mid-July we harvested our first one: a soft skinned, sea green specimen about 8 inches long. There were several on the vine right behind it in maturity,
Chicken better than any chicken salad. That’s what Elizabeth David promised with this recipe in her Mediterranean Cooking. The result … lunch by the pool, a setting as secluded as a honeymoon suite, delivered effortlessly by the perfect lover. The recipe will follow, and so will the ideal rice salad
Dukkah, Dry Dip Hot Day Lunch The excuse to get together was to take pictures of food. Food like the Egyptian dip called Dukkah. It has all the flavor of a dip, concentrated so a bland thing like a chip or cracker compliments and carries it, but Dukkah is dry.
Watermelon, Vodka and Lemon/Lime Juice. Let the watermelon be the sweetness. Watermelon’s best quality. I don’t love the texture or the the thick bitter skin, or it’s plethora of seed. Like lavender is to herb, watermelon is to fruit. Its a smell of summer. Watermelon’s second best quality is wetness:
Fresh Fish: Making Ceviche at Home If you can made a trip to Whole Foods, you’ll find the freshest fish available anywhere in this country. Quality can’t be guaranteed just by sheer proximity to oceans and streams. We spent a month on the Pacific coast in California and only found
Heaven in a smell – vodka in the glass. By mid May our tarragon was two feet tall and so thick it feels like we planted a magic tarragon stalk three summers ago. Sure, it’s great with fish, great in a chicken soup, and I even use a few
A Mothers’ Day Herb Fruit Salad: Spring Tarragon Salad with Fruit The tarragon has come back in my garden and its sweetness, because it is so young, makes it so mild that I added it with some garden mint to the fruit salad I made for Mothers’ Day Brunch. It’s