Think of the platter as a palette, and your vegetables as swaths of paint that fill in the color of the canvas. This is what every August provides as our tomato plants and other garden vegetables are going crazy and this means we should be thinking colorful salads. This is both an appetizing and beautiful […]
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Summertime Raw Sauce for Pasta
August 19, 2014 by Leave a Comment
A delightful way to prepare pasta for a hot summer day is to toss it with a raw sauce or what the Italians call a salsa cruda. Summers can be too hot for full-fledged piping hot food so a raw sauce can come into play. It is exactly what it sounds like, a melange of […]
Juicy Figs Stuffed in Tomatoes Make a Summer Appetizer
August 11, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Our figs in California are so abundant and delicious that throughout the summer we dream all ways of using them. This particular preparation is wonderful as an appetizer to a barbeque party. The tomatoes I call for are a cultivar called Carmelo, but you can use any tomato which, when cut in half, could be […]
Take A Four-Course Meal Outdoors With A Grill Party
August 5, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Grilling takes effort. Lots of coal goes into building the fire; you wait for the coals to get hot; and the food cooks in about 15 minutes, if you’re having steaks, burgers, vegetables or hot dogs. And that’s it. The fire continues burning, wasting away, while you eat. How about getting full use out of […]
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