Sometimes my garden overproduces at the most opportune time. Recently guests came up to the ranch for a visit at an hour which isn’t quite…
Category: summer
Chard & Ricotta Pie
When we are up at the cabin, I don’t always have a full larder. I do however, have a garden and a few cheats in…
Lemon Lavender Cake
I love lavender-trimming day. Delicate buds not yet spent, but given their pollen to the bees, at the ready for culinary cajoling. I bundle the…
Fiori Fritti
Ever since I was a child, summer meant; long days in the pool, big family gatherings, and fiori fritti. Squash blossoms picked before the dew…
“Sun Dried” Tomatoes
Our first tomatoes to ripen this season were our Romas. Unfortunately, they ripened while we were away from home. By the time I picked them…
Triple Berry Dessert Sauce
We grow strawberries in our garden. Each June we joyfully harvest them. We also grow raspberries, blackberries and boysenberries. They are only evident by the…
Sugared Rose Petals
It has been mentioned before that our mountain cabin was once owned by the character actress Dodo Denny. By all accounts she was a lover…
Strawberry Harvest
This evening I worked my way through our strawberry patch delicately cupping clusters of sun warmed crimson fruit. Hunched like a greedy troll while on…