It's the first day of summer! This makes us think of tomatoes, strawberries, watermelon and corn. The tomatoes in your backyard may not be so big as these quite yet; ours are the size of blueberries, just beginning to swell among the leaves of our patio bush.
Other than watching tomatoes grow, here are a few things we enjoyed from the last week here at The Kitchn:
• Turns out that quite a few of you went and bought this pan after we wondered why it was so popular. Guess there's a good reason for it!
• Weekend drinking: There's quite a lot to choose from. Frozen strawberry margaritas, updated sangria, and Vesper Lillet martinis. Hmmm - dilemma.
• Blueberries, stone fruit, and yes, tomatoes are out in the California markets.
• We met Martha and Emeril! See what we asked them, plus photos of what we ate and drank.
• Sweet things this week! Strawberry yogurt popsicles. Coconut jam and banana bars. Honey Lavender Panna Cotta.
• We also identified a sweet mystery fruit.
• Any more recommendations for good everyday dishes?
• Here are some alternatives to the much-lamented Tastespotting.
• Try making a breakfast sandwich this weekend.
• And our pick for supper, soon: Chilled Pea Soup with Radish and Mango Relish.
Have a happy weekend everyone! Stop back in for some weekend reading on Saturday and Sunday.
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Honey Brook Organic Farm is our favourite place for pick-your-own strawberries, sugar snap peas, and soon ... more tomatoes than we can ever eat. We've been farm members since 2005.
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I'm making the Beer Geek Chocolate Cupcakes with Salted Caramel you linked to a while back. Hooray!
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Despite the mysterious silence of the internet, I *will* be figuring out exactly how one is supposed to cook pamphrey. Anyone got any tips? Otherwise it's going in boiled with some corned beef and carrots and onions.
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My daughter and I hit the Union Square farmers market this morning for a huge quantity of strawberries. Most of them will simply be cleaned, sliced, and eaten, but some will become strawberry bread because we can't eat this much before it rots!
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