Tomatoes provençale, a simple dish that highlights the bounty of late summer gardens with its emphasis on fresh tomatoes, finds its way to our table almost daily in August when we buy heirloom tomatoes by the case at our local market. Tomatoes, you see, don’t do well up here at 9,000 feet. So we get [...]
Recipe: Roast Lamb with Olives, Lemon & Fresh Oregano
August 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Roast lamb is, without a doubt, one of our very favorite dishes. In the spring we serve it with young vegetables: carrots, English peas, parsnips and fennel, but we’ve recently started serving it with Greek-inspired ingredients: olives, lemon, garlic and oregano. And it is heavenly. There is nothing quite light the vibrant perfume and flavor [...]
Clean Your Plate Recipe Challenge: Olive Oil
February 5, 2010 By 21 Comments
Olive oil. There is nothing quite like a fruity, complexly flavored olive oil – teeming with antioxidants, polyphenols and vitamin E. It’s sacred, mystical – weaving its way in and out of Mediterranean folklore and myth. Homer referred to it as “liquid gold,” and rightly so – it imparts a beauty to foods and supports [...]
Home-cured Olives: Moroccan Style
November 9, 2009 By 19 Comments
Home-cured olives – seasoned with chilies, lemon and North African spices – have finally made their way into our kitchen, and happily so. Not too long ago, we received a beautiful box of freshly harvested, green-ripe barouni olives from Chaffin Family Orchards out of California. Since then we’ve patiently waited and waited [...]
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