As mentioned in the post about lunch at La Bandita Townhouse in Pienza, since having their pea soup with lemon mascarpone, I’ve been making lemon mascarpone and eating it with abandon. In related news, I also bought a lemon tree after returning from Italy. It’s only a wee, little tree right now, but eventually, I… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Homemade Pantry
Maple-Chipotle Barbecue Sauce
Grocery shopping day at our house is Tuesday. Kind of odd, really, but it makes sense if you know that I do the shopping after I collect what JR and I call “slop” and what the Whole Foods team calls “compost”. The compost is Whole Foods’ waste produce, which they very generously share with us… Continue Reading
Pear-Ginger Chutney
There is a cranberry bog down the street from our house – a number of cranberry bogs, in fact – and I do love watching the autumn progression of the bogs turning bright red, followed by a flurry of bog-flooding activity, the farmer and a gaggle of helpers working frantically to harvest them all as… Continue Reading
Preserved Eggplant on Eat Boutique
If you aren’t already familiar with the lovely site Eat Boutique, run by my equally lovely friend, Maggie, or with Eat Boutique’s fabulous gift boxes, here’s an excuse (though you do not need one. no, you do not.) to check it all out: my post on preserved eggplant. Part pickle, part spicy antipasti, if you like… Continue Reading
How to Make Tomato Confit
While this isn’t the most economical use of tomatoes for those who have to purchase them, for, at $4.95 per pound for heirlooms, this is an expensive sauce, it is a fantastic use of that extra 2 or 3 pounds (or, okay, maybe it’s more like 10 or 12 pounds) of tomatoes that the gardeners amongst us… Continue Reading