Savoring Summer’s Magic

Summer hydrangeas to savor.

  Here We Are It’s August, and I’m taking my time in appreciating the season…the way the sky softens then brightens early, how the sunlight lingers late into the evening. These are special days. The produce is abundant. Every piece of fruit is juicy. Tomatoes are plentiful (beyond plentiful!). It’s a hot, lazy time of…

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Dazzling Summer Joy

Tortellini salad joy

  It’s the most wonderful time of the year in my kitchen AND I AM OVERJOYED. That’s right, we’re talking all-caps enthusiasm! My happiness cannot be contained. Let me backtrack. I’m an avid home cook. Like everyone else on the Eastern Seaboard, we’ve trudged through winter’s limp offerings at the grocery store: lackluster lettuce, barely…

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