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Up in the Lakes Region of NH for the week, pillaging my grandma’s garden to make fresh basil pesto, pasta primavera with zucchini, eggplant and squash, plus gorgeous green salads with tomato and cucumber. Summertime in New England is pretty glorious, I must say.
Posted on August 9, 2011 with 4 notes ()
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Purple Basil — perfect for Thai dishes like this one
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Torrential rain in Montauk means I’m taking full advantage of the in-house washing machine by laundering all my sandy sundresses and also that I’m doing a fair amount kitchen rummaging. I went to town on this Sugar Baby watermelon, extracting hundreds of seeds before turning it into a watermelon-feta-basil (again, supposed to be mint) salad.
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The only thing I like better than making my way out to Montauk is getting a ride out to Montauk. We drove down through Connecticut to the New London ferry and hit a ton of farmstands once we got off at Orient Point, Long Island. Fresh sweet corn, juicy just-picked peaches, bursting berries…it was almost too much to bear. So far, I’ve assembled some fierce salads of crisp greens balanced out with perfectly ripe fruit and also concocted a corn salad with cherry tomatoes, baby purple onion and basil. Summer never tasted so good.
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My makeshift version of watermelon/mint/feta salad = cantaloupe/basil/ricotta salata. You gotta make do with what you’ve got.
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