Mustard greens are the highlight of my garden right now. I planted ‘Japanese Giant Red’ and ‘Southern Curled’ varieties this year.
Category garden veggies
Southern Sweet Potato Casserole
A friend gave me this recipe a few years ago and it came with a warning: it is in no way healthful and it might put a certain Southern cooking queen to shame.
Harvest Quinoa Salad
I love this time of year in Florida. We may not have changing leaves, but it’s porch season. The heat of summer has finally lifted and we can sit outside without breaking a sweat. But I still find the colors and flavors of a true autumn very alluring.
Green Papaya Salad with Crispy Shallots
The best green papaya salad I’ve ever had happened by chance. Some friends were celebrating their honeymoon with a road trip around Florida, and our house was one of the stops. We were going to make them the house special for dinner: blackened redfish. The new bride and I walked around the yard talking about… Read More
Grilled Shrimp, Okra and Tomatoes with Creole Mustard Sauce
After reading American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood, I decided to buy some local wild shrimp. Funny how local shrimp are more expensive than the shrimp imported all the way from Thailand or Indonesia.
Hawaiian Rice Salad
We cooked most of the food we ate on our trip to Hawaii. The closest supermarket was 3 hours away.
Florida Lobster Linguini
It was a good summer. We spent many days on the water, visited with family, and ate lots of lobster. Or lobsta, in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Key Lime Gazpacho
Writer M.F.K. Fisher recommended gazpacho as an appetizer for a backyard barbecue because it’s a “legitimate and not too alcoholic way to keep your guests busy while you turn the steak… then you will find the appetites sharp and wits fairly clear, and a satisfying patina of conversation glimmering in the air.”