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So these are a first. A colleague of D's gave us amazing cucumbers from her garden and I had the inspiration I needed to try to make bread and butter pickles for the first time. They look right, but I haven't tried them yet. They're in the refrigerator chilling, because I like pickles cold.
In the front yard we expand a perennial bed each year. And these are among our favorites - the state flower. I look forward to these blooming all year because they just say the height of summer to me. I remember how my mom's were always enormous and bloomy. 
Yay for fresh Eastern Shore corn mixed with basil from our yard (we have so much) into a pancake. Super easy and a nice side to many meals. Here's the recipe.
I finished both socks, including repairing the first one so that the bind off was more stretchy. Yay!
i bound it off too tightly, but otherwise it's pretty good. working on the second one now. thanks, mom, for the yarn, the pattern, and for getting me started!
I did not grow these chilies, we bought them at the market too, but aren't they beautiful?
This is the second recipe from Eating Well. The tomatoes and corn are from the farmers market - I substituted our basil for thyme. And, of course, this is my standard New Cook Book pie crust recipe. I haven't tried the one in the recipes.
This recipe comes from the Eating Well magazine that I discovered at my mom's last weekend. I made three recipes from it last night. Peaches were from yesterday's farmer's market, and the custard is delicious.
all ingredients - other than the basil - from trader joe's. the strawberries were amazing.
grown in composted soil, completely organic and as local as you can get.
the first peas from our garden. yum.
I am so privileged to have these two beautiful and amazing women to count among my closest friends.
Thank you for teaching me this, Nigella. This one is drenched in olive oil (a la Eric Ripert) rather than butter. Butter makes a crispier, browner skin. But I watched Eric make a roast chicken on PBS today and was inspired to try it this way.
Also from Everyday Food (it's a good magazine!). Herbs and lettuce from our garden.
13 weeks until this year's anniversary trip. Not that I'm counting.
Also from Everyday Food. Yum.
A recipe from Nina's thoughtful Christmas gift last year - a subscription to Martha's Everyday Food. Partnered with locally grown asparagus.
How cute are these? I found the directions here.
My first attempt at the Joy of Cooking's pastry cream. Here in a not pretty to look at but yummy Boston cream pie. I also went with a milk chocolate icing - not the dark chocolate one that's recommended by the recipe.
Not much is left of my grandmother's 82 years on this planet. Some photos. Some Hummels. A chair I can't bear to recover. Some pots that she fired in her basement kiln. And this recipe which my mom and I still make to honor her. And because it's tasty.
Our goal is to sustain a happy home.
