brought this bee balm up to the Cape from Walter’s in Bernardsville and I think I made someone happy!
The other day I was watching a show out of one eye on the Cooking Channel while doing something else – I didn’t catch the name of the show or the chef’s either, but my ears perked up when she relayed this line, “What Grows Together, Goes Together”. She elaborated that the context of this was timing – that what is growing at the same time in the garden or wild, goes together in cooking and baking. A chef friend of hers had instructed her of this tenet. I thought about it for one second and said to myself, yes, that makes perfect sense – now, that’s just plum to me! I have been thinking about this on and off since I heard it and, while I could probably come up with some examples of this not being true if I really tried, generally speaking I’m buying this. Just how many examples of this can I come up with? Hmmmm…….
Today’s NYT Dining Section is chock full of great recipes using seasonal fruits – ahhhhh, love. You know me.
photos courtesy NY Times
Surprise!And while I am totally exhausted today and just feel like sitting, I also have in me that self-vision of being “in the business” and in my own little shop orchestrating the baking of hundreds of seasonal confections. In the picture, I am in chef’s coat, covered in blueberry stains and flour and have blue under my fingernails. “Tis the season” evokes a whole different meaning for me, yes it does.
Anyway, I am happy to relax today and just sit on the deck and watch the tide come in and go out. Big job for today? – replacing the Lemon Verbena plant that mysteriously disappeared – perhaps I should have hired a professional weeder and not you-know-who! Tomorrow will be another day and I will get going on some ideas that illustrate the tenet which is the subject of this post. Today is for perusing – by new book, “Ripe – A Cook in the Orchard” by Nigel Slater.
love is all you need
my favorite pictures in the CC kitchen
hard to beat when it’s glittering
and, last but not least, a delight: from Le Sireneuse http://sirenusejournal.com/journal/a-day-in-the-life-of-matteo-temperini-executive-chef2