I love old fashioned potato salad made by my grandmother, but this isn’t that. I also love newfangled potato salads, but this isn’t that, either. This is potato salad reduced to its essentials — a little mayonnaise, a sprinkle of tart vinegar, the oniony breath of chives, and at the end, a dusting of lemon, to add aroma and color, to wake the tastebuds and make the salad sing. It’s hardly a recipe at all, but it’s well worth making all the same, in this last weekend of summer.
I often say that I blog what I eat, and it’s true. But it’s also true that when I’m sitting down Saturday morning to make my grocery list, I’m thinking about things I’d like to write about, to share with you. I write about recipes that fit into my life, but I’ve also planned them [...]
How to do summer, in 19 easy steps: 1) Chill the Vinho Verde. 2) Pack the kids off to grandma’s, or distract them with a movie, in a darkened room. 3) Head out to the garden. Stop to smell the roses. Get distracted by the hammock. Lie down, for just a minute. 4) Take a [...]
