Pavlova. You either know the name or you don’t. You either appreciate the early efforts it must have taken to be her or you mock the simplicity. Being a dancer since a very young age, I always had a small black and white postcard photo of Anna Pavlova in my bedroom…then on my bulletin board […]
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Quick Pickled Tarragon Balsamic Blackberries
We love to quick pickle things. Eventually we’d really love to spend the time learning how to can foods so that we can enjoy all these beautiful summer veggies year round…but for now we cannot invest the time in the process of proper canning. (And plus…we don’t have a garden, as our landscape is pretty […]
Lemon Tarragon Bread…or is it Cake?
We have had a very busy few months lately and have not done nearly as much baking (or blogging) as we had hoped. With Christmas almost here, the one thing I wanted to be sure to bake was my grandmother’s lemon bread. Growing up it was always one of our favorites and brings back […]
Tarragon Mayonnaise with Pressed Leeks & Tomatoes
This past week we were treated to a lovely jar of tarragon vinegar from the garden of a colleague and his wife. We couldn’t wait to try it and decided to make a tarragon mayonnaise to serve with a pressed leek & tomato salad. We began with the leeks […]
Open Faced Tomato & Tarragon Sandwich
It is finally tomato season here in New England and one of us couldn’t be happier…the other…well the other can’t really look at a raw tomato due to a childhood memory of eating a bad one. So we eat a lot of roasted, grilled or cooked tomatoes. A couple of weeks ago we […]