Summer

August and September are my favorite food months. My vegetable gardens are usually full and lush, with all of my favorite summer vegetables and pantry …

Let me put this right out there: I love the galette. Especially savory ones. …

Back when SoupAddict was a kid (and thought Campbell’s Vegetable Soup with a little vinegar was the cat’s meow, as far as soup was concerned), …

Frosty summer drinks — spiked or not — are such a trademark of summer entertaining. Margaritas are my hot weather faves, and ever since I …

This summer, more than any other, has been one for fast and fresh salads — something that can be pulled together with minimum fuss, but …

My childhood home was located in a sort of shallow geographical bowl, where the neighborhood streets circled up and out from ours — a twisty …

The cookbook lover in me has been more than thrilled at the selections coming out of publishing lately. Truly unique and useful tomes by cooking …

At last, the days are lengthening, and I no longer feel the need to curl up on the couch, wrapped in a blanket and clutching …

An amazing appetizer, figs prosciutto is sweet, salty, and smoky, all in one bite. Serve these fig appetizers stuffed with creamy cheese and wrapped in …

A slideshow on the New York Times website recently caught my eye. Entitled “The Perfectly Fried Egg,” it shows a step-by-step of Spanish chef, José …

It’s September 19th, and I don’t think I can procrastinate any longer. Despite mustering up my very deepest reserves of denial and avoidance, the inevitable …

It’s mid-September, and this week finds me starting my annual tomato panic. The chill in the evening air signals an all-too-soon forthcoming end to my …

Ever since discovering the amazingness of raw corn last year, it’s the only way I’ll eat it off the cob (I still love da smoky …

I usually consider myself a fairly organized person. I have phone and iPad calendar and to-do list apps that keep me in line, and my …

Light and refreshing, this spring/summer dessert is a delightful combination of homemade vanilla whipped cream with blueberry sauce. Blueberry Fool is the perfect no-bake dessert. …

As summer marches onward, exiting (thankfully) a brutally hot July, I can’t help but be struck by all the ways Nature finds to surprise us …

It’s so hard to believe that Labor Day is just around the corner. It’s a holiday of mixed emotions, one I both really enjoy — …

This summer’s growing season has been emotionally harrowing — exuberant highs and furrowed-brow lows. When July’s heat wave arrived … and made itself right at …