Cooler: Arethusa Falls and the Cliff
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
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
$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.
Slower Sunday: Barefoot
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
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.
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.
Strawberry-Rhubarb Pudding Cake
Great Spring fruit flavors infuse this old-fashion, magical dessert trick. Sweet, aromatic strawberries with fresh, tart rhubarb. Rich but amazingly light. Part airy, moist cake. Part silky light pudding. A total mystery how it turns out this Way.
Lemony farro salad. I shoulda told you.
The light and lemony dressing is great with the nutty and kinda rich, high-protein whole grain. Terrific with the slightly bitter salad greens. And all that's made even Better by the slightly salty and deeply flavorful cheese.
Banana-Granola Breakfast Popsicle
Breakfast on a stick. Perfect for summer. Cool and refreshing. Banana-sweet, yogurt-tart, granola-nutty. Ten minutes of licking and smiling at the same time. Takes you less time to prepare a batch of these popsicles than it does to eat one.
Slower Sunday: Right between the legs
You wouldn't necessarily feel completely comfortable walking through here. But how could you not?