Caregiving from my kitchen
I had eggplant. Oh, boy, I had eggplant.. So – ratatouille. It’s a classic French dish from Provence, a stew of summer vegetables. Roughly equal amounts of eggplant, zucchini, and tomato, with onion, garlic and basil. Unlike most vegetables dishes, it’s cooked until the vegetables …
Autumn is here! Well – the Autumnal Equinox is actually tomorrow… but close enough. The season has changed… The weather started fluctuating between cool and hot a few weeks ago, but, this week, the warm spell following the cool weather was in the seventies, not …
We got the cutest little eggplants from the CSA… I don’t normally go all ecstatic over Cute – but really, aren’t these adorable? Delicate, tiny little things, streaked with lavender, almost too pretty to eat. I couldn’t see just simmering them into a sauce, or …
Some vegetables just look so… Cool. Or do I mean weird? Kind of a great still life, but… does anyone really know how to cook them? Or even what they are? And are we sure they’re not some alien life form? All right – I’m …
It’s August in New York City. It’s hot, and humid, and sticky, and miserable, and… 60 degrees?? Well, every few years, in the middle of our proverbial dog days of Summer, we get just a few days of Fall weather, just to tease us, before …