Basil

At the peak of summer’s bounty, it can be tricky to figure out what else to do with all of the tomatoes and sweet corn. If you’ve had as many BLTs or tomato sandwiches or panzanella and as much corn on the cob as you want, how do you honor the pint of sungold tomatoes …

It’s easy to get into a rut with salads. I can find myself tossing the same greens and chopped vegetables and dressing together over and over again. It’s fine. But it’s boring. But it doesn’t have to be that way. One way to break out of a salad rut is with a new vinaigrette. This …

April Bloomfield’s first book, A Girl and Her Pig, was a big deal in the food world when it came out a couple of years ago. I heard plenty about it, but because I was vegetarian at the time, I mentally added it to the stack of meat-centric books that just weren’t for me and …

With the normal thrum of busy lives it can be tough to take time to make a real meal with fresh ingredients. But I hate to miss out on the late summer produce that’s so plentiful this time of year. I especially hate to miss out on in-season tomatoes. They don’t even have to be …

This has become my salad of the summer. More specifically, this basil vinaigrette has become my salad dressing of the summer. I love basil. When it’s in season at the farmers market I come home with a big bunch of it every week. I, like most people, usually use it to make pesto or sprinkle shreds of it …