RECIPE: Peach Panzanella, Just Peachy For Lunch Or Dinner

[1] Peach panzanella as a side salad or salad course (photo © Good Eggs). [2] Add prosciutto and mozzarella, and/or grilled chicken or salmon, for a main (photo © Good Eggs). [3] Fragrant ripe peaches are a versatile ingredient at every meal (photo © The Lore | Unsplash). [4] Prosciutto ham from Italy and Serrano…
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RECIPE: Fried Green Tomatoes & Savory French Toast With Tomatoes

We haven’t read the novel, Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistlestop Cafe. But in the film, while green tomatoes are fried up, we (a northerner and fan of heirloom tomatoes) missed a technical point. We didn’t realize that the green tomatoes were fried because they were not yet ripe. Plucked off the vine green (photo…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Summer Crudités & The History Of The Relish Tray

When we were in college, we first learned that our Nana’s “relish tray”—carrot and celery sticks, radishes, olives (photo #3)—could be elevated to something our friend Carolyn—who had spent her junior year abroad in Paris—called crudités. At a dinner one day, she served what we now know as a crudités plate, artfully cut and arranged.…
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