I might have mentioned this before (erm, once or twice?), but I love berry season. It takes all my willpower not to come home every week from the farmers’ market with flats of every berry I can lay my hands on. And sometimes my willpower …
To me, nothing heralds summer like really good strawberry ice cream. Ice cream is obviously the best summer food there is. (Not open for discussion or dissent, ok? It just is.) And strawberry is the flavor that seems to whisper, excitedly, “Summer is here!”
The first time that my now-husband spent Thanksgiving with my family, I asked him a few days before what dish he really liked out of the whole meal. His response was, “Oh, I really like cranberry sauce!” I asked him who in his family made …
There’s no denying it now. Summer is coming to a close. My morning drive to work is slowed down by school buses, I have more ripe tomatoes than I know what to do with, and most of the time, I can turn off the a/c …