Tag: Summer

A Year-Round Tomato Sauce

If you are like me and enjoy homemade tomato sauce year-round, this recipe is for you. It’s a great way to use up any lingering tomatoes at the end of the season. If the season has already finished, you can still manage a decent sauce with your supermarket variety. The key to developing the flavor…


For the Love of Figs

Just when local tomatoes start to dwindle at the market, figs arrive in all their green and purple glory, a harbinger of autumn. Figs also have a shorter, smaller harvest in early summer, but the main event comes at the end. The season is still short, so grab these precious fruits while you can. The…


Say Goodbye to Summer With a Peach Melba Buckle

A buckle is one of those early American country desserts, like a pandowdy, grunt, or cobbler, that combines fruit with biscuits or cake. The source for this recipe idea is Florida chef Clair Epting, who prepared a blood peach-raspberry crisp with a peach-honey sauce for dessert one evening at the Cakebread Cellars in Napa Valley….


Your Tomato Salad Needs a Tomato Dressing

For this fast salad recipe, we top summer’s ripest tomatoes with a bold tomato-based dressing for good measure. Serve as a light lunch with whole-grain toast or pair with grilled steak and chicken for dinner. Heirloom Tomato Salad With Tomato Vinaigrette Active Time: 10 minutes Total Time: 10 minutes Serves 8 2 pounds heirloom tomatoes,…


How to Make Bachelor’s Jam: Fruits, Booze, and Time

Patience is a virtue. Today, with almost our every need easily met by a tap on a touchscreen, that virtue seems to be fading. Yet some of the best lessons in patience can still be found in the hearth and home. It’s in the kitchen that a little bit of effort and plenty of patience…


One Simple Step Will Instantly Upgrade Your Tomato Sandwich

Ripe tomatoes were in abundance this weekend at the farmers market. I usually turn them into tomato sandwiches, but this week I wanted to make my tomato sandwich a little more special. This sandwich is rich and messy, creamy and delicious. The tomatoes are roasted until their flavors are concentrated and the skins have blistered….


Caponata: A Feisty Sicilian Salute to Summer’s End

It’s the end of summer, so why not go out with a bang and make caponata? Caponata is a Sicilian vegetable stew or compote. It slightly resembles Provencal ratatouille, but while both are tomato-rich stews consisting of a bounty of summer vegetables and aromatics influenced by their geography, they diverge from there. Ratatouille typically includes…


End of the Summer: Events That May Shake Markets in September

LONDON—After a summer in which stocks have hit a seemingly never-ending run of record highs, September brings a series of monetary and political events that could jolt investors out of their complacency. The will-they-won’t-they debate over trimming pandemic-era stimulus gets an airing with several G10 central banks holding meetings. A showdown over U.S. national debt…


You Need This Cheesy Garlic Butter Corn Before Summer Ends

If you, like me, like to squeeze every last bit out of summer before declaring it officially fall, I implore you to make this extra-cheesy, extra-garlicky corn on the cob before you’re out of time. Roast your last ears of corn in the oven until they lightly blister and char, rub them with Parmesan-garlic butter,…


Blistered Shishito Peppers Are an Addicting Snack

If you’re looking for a fun and exciting snack to put out, look no further. This treat is easy to prepare. I was introduced to these little green peppers, and now I can’t get enough of them. Warning: They are addictive. Shishito peppers are an East Asian pepper variety. They’re picked green and their flavor…