Bunsen Peak: Overlooking Yellowstone
In the original National Park. Here's a half-day hike with huge 360-degree views. Long enough to make it a "serious" hike. Short enough to do it before lunch. Climb 1,300'. Burn 1,800 calories.
Eggplant Rolls, grilled and stuffed
Sweet, soft, smoky eggplant slices. Wrapped around tart, salty feta cheese spiked with aromatic oregano. Brightened with a little fresh lemon juice. Best hand-held dish of the month. If you can slice eggplant and mash cheese, it's in your mouth in less than 20 minutes.
Almost Too Beautiful To Eat
I had to think for a while about this zebra eggplant. How to eat the delicious inside without destroying the dramatically beautiful outside? Here's how you make an addictive Eggplant-Garlic Salad and serve it in its own skin.
Cole Slaw Upgrade: Salad of the Week
Add aromatic, herbaceous fennel to sweet, fresh cabbage for the season's best cole slaw. They're both in abundant supply. And at their seasonal peak flavors and low prices. Light, bright, crunchy and intensely flavorful. Get to your Farmers Market for the best stuff.
Balanced Monday: How & Why Athletes Do It
You could slip, trip or otherwise sprain an ankle or end up on your butt later today. So take a minute to consider three minutes a day of Balance Training. One leg at a time.
Slower Sunday: Expanding Universe
If it's really expanding, why isn't my apartment getting bigger? Maybe I missed something in that physics course. It's Sunday. Let your mind wander. Even if it doesn't expand.
Showering in the Grand Canyon
If you know it only from photos, you think of a vast panorama. One huge canyon a mile deep, eight miles wide and much, much longer. But when you hike down in, you discover hundreds of subcanyons. Each with its own attractions. Like a 150'-high shower.
Fresh Grains. A Feel-Good Summer Salad
Fresh sweet corn. Nutty, toothsome farro. Earthy, supple shiitake mushrooms. All those flavors and textures make a party in your mouth. And a complete, satisfying, beautiful and aromatic meal.
Summer Squash Lasagna
Not spaghetti squash. Lasagna squash. Because Summer squash is everywhere. Totally ripe, totally fresh. Really cheap. Quick and easy to make in advance or just in time. A meal in a single pan. Tastes great hot or cold.
Ready, Ripe, Ratatouille
When you can get eggplant, peppers, squash, fennel, scallions and tomatoes in one week's CSA farm share or trip to the Farmers Market, it's time to make ratatouille again. Make a huge pot to refrigerate and enjoy cold for the rest of the week.