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[blank]who says summer food has to be fancy?![blank]
summer is here, with fresh vegetables and ripe fruit,
as beautiful to look at as it is delicious to eat [blank]
as beautiful to look at as it is delicious to eat [blank]
plenty of flavour and goodness[blank]
the best things in life are often the simple ones …[blank]
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So true Sharon – simple and fresh and delicious! F xx
LOVE LOVE LOVE your summer bounty!!! Anything artichoke is my favorite. Aren't they so pretty?
I've just come home with fresh corn, some living greens & berries. This made me happy. And, so does this post. Love the new header photo!
Great photos!! The colors are so pretty and yummy (to be). Lynda
Lovely fresh looking photos too. I agree simple can be just as inviting and good sometimes preferred.
Sharon, at first I almost thought these photos were paintings. They certainly could be, what beauty they behold! What will you be cooking with these gems?
Frame-able art. Lovely. Nature is the best srtist. Great photos, too
Beautiful photos Sharon. I am just starting to think about seed planting for summer here in NZ. I hope my garden will be as productive as yours.
Hi Sharon these photographs are beautiful and the subjects delicious, the colours are so vivid. Thank you for sharing. Regards Esther from Sydney.
Dear Sharon,
Given that you're English, you probably don't really need me to introduce you to Elizabeth David's book "Summer Cooking" (for those who are unfamiliar with it?…it's more about an "approach" to Summer fare than a collection of recipes, although there's plenty of those).
I regularly give it as a present to friends who just can't seem to get their heads wrapped around the notion of "It's SUMMER!….you don't HAVE to make a fuss over cooking some complicated dish, when everything's this fresh"
I just had a dinner party (my father was visiting from Tennessee) which was a bit daunting….among the 8 guests were: one was genuinely lactose-intolerant, 2 on the Atkins Diet (no carbs), one is deathly-allergic to any sort of nut or nut-oil, a diabetic (once again, no carbs if possible, among other restrictions), and 2 were simply vegetarian (that's easy to deal with).
That said?…It's the height of SUMMER. So, my 75 year old father (who's a pretty good cook) and I simply headed to the Farmer's market, where everything looked good.
I made "The Silver Palate Cookbook's" Chicken Marbella (it's E-Z) the day before the dinner and served it at room-temperature. I kept half of the chicken pieces and simply poached them with fresh vegetables (for the diabetic,who's not a vegetarian). My father whipped up a big batch of tablouleh (a meal in itself, I think) and a very garlic-y tomato-basil-arugula salad (he mentioned "It seems almost a shame to cut these up", as he got started on the basket of tomatoes). NONE of this takes much time, so I also made an Indian-style sauteed-eggplant dish (at which point, I also said "It's a shame to cut these all up, isn't it?)….and then I blanched fresh green beans, poured a mild vinaigrette over them (did I mention that one of the two observant jews was ALSO allergic to mustard?)….and THAT WAS THAT.
All simple and good and fresh and easy ("cooking" took all of two hours that day, between my father and me)….with a loaf of bread I picked up at the bakery.
I made iced green-tea (three of the friends don't drink alcohol, for obvious reasons….diabetes and atkins), and two of the friends brought white wine.
I've got to say that last Sunday was one of themost pleasant, simply delightful diners I've ever thrown (and I throw a lot of parties). The trip to the Farmer's market was a wonderful, chatty way to spend the morning with my father….and we all lingered at the dinner table for five hours (from 5-10) that evening.
I love summer cooking, although I'll be the first to admit that I sort of miss entertaining in the Winter (when all you have to do, oce the partie's over, is to stick the leftovers on the back porch until the morning).
Oh….dessert was simply melons and figs-off-the-tree-outside-the-front-window.
Thanks, Sharon, for the evocative posting,
David Terry
http://www.davidterryart.com
Beautifully natural and fresh from the garden! Lovely in your baskets!
xoxo
Karena
2013 Design Series
Summertime… No time of year is better…. For finding fresh, fresh, fresh food… -happy sigh-
We need to be aware, of just how lovely, this time of year is… Embrace it… Fully enjoy it…
Remember it, when cold winds blow…
I agree with you! Vegetables are lovely!
Marina
Gorgeous vegetables and beautiful pictures, Sharon… xv
I SO agree with you Sharon! My kitchen garden is my absolute passion and vegetables to me are a thing of great beauty…….your gorgeous pictures make the perfect 'still life'.
Oh for simple pleasures!
Sophia x
Absolutely beautiful photos. You are a pro!
LOVE this!!! Yes, simple is beautiful! We grow our own veggies/fruit and it makes all the difference. These pics are so beautiful, thanks for sharing!
Such lovely pictures!
I am busy making cherry vodka, cherry brandy, cherry jam, cherry relish, cherry compote
Can you see a trend here? 🙂
I love these pictures, really summer!
Other dream … have a vegetable garden …
Bisou, Babi
P.S. Sharon?…"A Prairie Home Companion" is a popular radio American radio. In one of the regular segments, the host (Garrison Keilor) talks about his little hometown, Lake Woebegone.
In one of my favorite segments, he was discussing Summer in Lake Woebegone, and he mentioned that it's the only time of year when the townsfolk actually lock their cars.
The reason?….because you'll come out one July or August morning to find that one of your neighbors has sneaked over in the night and stuffed the backseat with six twenty pound bags of surplus zucchini (courgettes).
It wouldn't be so funny if it weren't so true….
—david terry
http://www.davidterryart.com
Food has never looked so beautiful:)
So simple and so beautiful. Love the picture. Evelyne
Summer and simplicity in food go hand and hand. Nice photos!
What magnificent birdhouses! I'd place it in my backyard, just beyond our screened-in porch where we usually can be found on lazy summer days, near the birdbath/fountain. Marilyn in Mt. Vernon, VA
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