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Summer Herbs Become Pudding Cake

June 21, 2022

The best side dish of the Summer. A combination of wildly aromatic herb custard and herbed olive oil bread. Deeply, deeply flavorful. Completely satisfying but very, very light. Elevates any main course it shares a plate with.

Slower Sunday: What are Fathers for?

June 19, 2022

Ask not what Father can do for you. Ask what you can do for Father. Press Play. Scratch. Happy Fathers Day.

Sweet Math: Strawberry-Rhubarb Yogurt

June 18, 2022

So delicious. So satisfying. So sweet. Zero added sugar. 60 cents for a 6-ounce serving of the best-tasting yogurt you can get. With 27% of your daily Vitamin C requirement. 18% of your Vitamin D and 12% of your protein.

Cooler: Arethusa Falls and the Cliff

June 17, 2022

Cold water. Cool mist. Plenty of shade under the big maple, birch and beech trees that line the trail to the falls. The opposite of summer in the city. Click for a trip to New Hampshire's White Mountains.

The Best Dressed Salads

June 16, 2022

These are the Salad Days. Farmers Markets are full of greens at their seasonal flavor peaks. The salad spinner and whisk are the busiest tools in the kitchen. If you were a leaf, you'd be thrilled to get tossed around in any one of these dressings.

Lobster Hash, National Lobster Day & Dad

June 15, 2022

$4 for three 3-ounce Lobster-Potato Hash Cakes. Chock full of live Maine lobster, 3 ounces of it. Deeply delicious, intensely aromatic. A wonderfully satisfying and special meal. Perfect for National Lobster Day. You didn't know? It's today.

Andrakla. You know, purslane.

June 14, 2022

A crisp, crunchy, creamy, intensely-flavorful salad that's satisfying, refreshing, very low in calories and, more important, near-zero in Glycemic Load. Walk it off in 30 minutes.

Slower Sunday: Barefoot

June 12, 2022

A 1-minute vacation. A virtual walk on the beach. Before you Press Play: no shoes or socks. C'mon. Now wiggle your toes. No beach? Use grass instead. Feels almost as good.

Mushroom Tarte Flambé

June 11, 2022

Beautiful to look at. Even Better to eat. Maybe the best mushroom-onion pizza ever. The crust is light and crisp. The mushrooms are earthy, fragrant, meaty. The onions are sweet, almost caramelized. Required kitchen skills: stirring, slicing.

Bighorn Peak. Big Sky. Big day.

June 10, 2022

Big hike. Bigger views. 360 degrees. 50 miles on a clear day. Tiny you in the middle of something vast. You may be a very small part of it all, but you're definitely part of it. And when you look around, that's awesome.