I can’t stop time, but I can preserve the summer just a little, and capture some of my childhood summers at the same time. When I was a little girl, I would spend some of those infinite summers with my great grandmother, eating berries out of her garden, getting into her cookie jar (I can still remember where it was kept), and eating her homemade tomato jam. Not a chutney, or another version of ketchup, the way so many tomato preserves recipes are, but a tomato jam, brightened with lemon, with that musky tomato flavor and the pure sweetness of preserved summer. Perfect on toast, for that lazy summer breakfast, this really is summer in a jar.
Entries Tagged as 'Summer'
Preserving Summer — Tomato Jam
August 29th, 2011 · 11 Comments · Condiments, Make Ahead, Recipes, Seasonal, Summer
How to do summer — Chopped Caprese Salad
August 11th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Non Recipe, Quick, Recipes, Seasonal, Vegetables and Sides
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 [...]
Mini Key Lime Yogurt Pies in Jars
August 5th, 2011 · 8 Comments · Baked Goods and Desserts, Make Ahead, Recipes, Seasonal, Summer
These tiny pies are fun. First of all – tiny pies? Always fun. Put them in jars and you double the fun (and make them super easy to transport for a picnic or a beach trip — see? More fun.) These are tart and refreshing and, unlike traditional key lime pies, light, low fat and relatively healthy. Lightened with egg whites, tangy with yogurt and lime juice, these mini pies are what summer was meant to be.
