The August/September time frame is becoming my favorite time of year. Of course, when I was a kid I hated it, mostly because it was “back to school” time. Even now, 18 years out of grade school, I still get those involuntary jitters every time I see an ad for “back to school” shopping or a school bus picking up kids. It’s good to be an adult.
Anyway, one of the reasons I love this time of year is that it’s harvest time. (You knew it had to do with food, right?) Right down the street from my new place is a family-owned farm that sells its own produce and I’ve been stopping in regularly. I’ve picked up some juliet tomatoes (like a smaller roma), various kinds of lettuce, zucchini and squash, and even some purple basil. It’s all so fresh and tasty. And the best part is that I know we’ll be getting farm-fresh veggies at least until the end of September.
Speaking of food, Sunday is a day I often use to make recipes that I normally don’t have the time for the rest of the week. Sometimes it’s Boston Baked Beans (in my very own beanpot) or a roasted chicken. Yesterday it was Shrimp in Hoisin and Garlic Sauce.
Actually, since I didn’t have any hoisin sauce, I substituted brown miso to good effect. If you’re interested, here’s the recipe in MacGourmet format. (MacGourmet is a really good cookbook program for the Mac. If you have the program, all you have to do is drag the link onto the MacGourmet icon. If you don’t have it, click the link and copy and paste. If people want, I can put it in other formats as well.)
Dom—The other great thing about the end of summer is the annual mysterious collapse of the Red Sox. Some years it is a one step forward, two steps back collapse. Other years…Well, the variety is infinite!
Isn’t there a form of lettuce called the Boston endive? Or am I thinking of the Red Sox again?
George Lee,
You don’t want to use Boston endive; it wilts too quickly. I can send you a recipe for a Yankee pot roast that’s more reliable.
Did I do something to offend you? Why the attacks? Or are you lashing out at me and the rest of Red Sox Nation to cover for your own inadequacies? Perhaps the Yankees are swooning while the Red Sox are surging? But then, this blog entry wasn’t about sports.
Just gently yanking your chain.
Oh I know. Just yanking back—not so gently.
By the way, I really do have a recipe for a Yankee Pot Roast that’ll knock your socks off. But I’ll wait ‘til October is over before I send it.
Hehehe, Rich, I take your point about the wilting Bostonians. Endive or outdive, the Red Sox will dive.
God forgive me, but I love riding Dom about the Red Sox. Usually my message to him is, “Rooting for the Red Sox is like trying to reform an exceptionally dim hooker.”
He started waxing lyrical about the pleasures of the harvest, dropped his guard, and walked right into Red Sox jokes.
Actually, I did make something just like that. And the purple basil adds great color, whether it’s in the ratatouille or in a nice insalata caprese.
Domenico! Stop kidding us. You manage the CWR, full time, we thought. You prteside over the religious program. You host the best and most interesting blogspot going. You are always at it. You personally write as fast almost as we all can read. You are off for a weekend here and a weekend there. You are out hunting down fresh vegetables. Now you are doing the household cooking and if that isn’t enough, you seem to be beginning an on-line cooking school. Just how many servants do you have,sir?
Domenico! Stop kidding us. You manage the CWR, full time, we thought. You prteside over the religious program. You host the best and most interesting blogspot going. You are always at it. You personally write as fast almost as we all can read. You are off for a weekend here and a weekend there. You are out hunting down fresh vegetables. Now you are doing the household cooking and if that isn’t enough, you seem to be beginning an on-line cooking school. Just how many servants do you have,sir?
Domenico! Stop kidding us. You manage the CWR, full time, we thought. You prteside over the religious program. You host the best and most interesting blogspot going. You are always at it. You personally write as fast almost as we all can read. You are off for a weekend here and a weekend there. You are out hunting down fresh vegetables. Now you are doing the household cooking and if that isn’t enough, you seem to be beginning an on-line cooking school. Just how many servants do you have,sir?
Domenico! Stop kidding us. You manage the CWR, full time, we thought. You prteside over the religious program. You host the best and most interesting blogspot going. You are always at it. You personally write as fast almost as we all can read. You are off for a weekend here and a weekend there. You are out hunting down fresh vegetables. Now you are doing the household cooking and if that isn’t enough, you seem to be beginning an on-line cooking school. Just how many servants do you have,sir?
Domenico! Stop kidding us. You manage the CWR, full time, we thought. You prteside over the religious program. You host the best and most interesting blogspot going. You are always at it. You personally write as fast almost as we all can read. You are off for a weekend here and a weekend there. You are out hunting down fresh vegetables. Now you are doing the household cooking and if that isn’t enough, you seem to be beginning an on-line cooking school. Just how many servants do you have,sir?
Domenico! Stop kidding us. You manage the CWR, full time, we thought. You prteside over the religious program. You host the best and most interesting blogspot going. You are always at it. You personally write as fast almost as we all can read. You are off for a weekend here and a weekend there. You are out hunting down fresh vegetables. Now you are doing the household cooking and if that isn’t enough, you seem to be beginning an on-line cooking school. Just how many servants do you have,sir?
Domenico! Stop kidding us. You manage the CWR, full time, we thought. You prteside over the religious program. You host the best and most interesting blogspot going. You are always at it. You personally write as fast almost as we all can read. You are off for a weekend here and a weekend there. You are out hunting down fresh vegetables. Now you are doing the household cooking and if that isn’t enough, you seem to be beginning an on-line cooking school. Just how many servants do you have,sir?
Domenico! Stop kidding us. You manage the CWR, full time, we thought. You prteside over the religious program. You host the best and most interesting blogspot going. You are always at it. You personally write as fast almost as we all can read. You are off for a weekend here and a weekend there. You are out hunting down fresh vegetables. Now you are doing the household cooking and if that isn’t enough, you seem to be beginning an on-line cooking school. Just how many servants do you have,sir?
Domenico! Stop kidding us. You manage the CWR, full time, we thought. You prteside over the religious program. You host the best and most interesting blogspot going. You are always at it. You personally write as fast almost as we all can read. You are off for a weekend here and a weekend there. You are out hunting down fresh vegetables. Now you are doing the household cooking and if that isn’t enough, you seem to be beginning an on-line cooking school. Just how many servants do you have,sir?
We are the Borg. We are the many who are one. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.