Long Bean Salad with Basil When summer’s heat approaches the triple digits, there are really only two options: grit your teeth and hunker down in an air-conditioned cell until October, or find ways to celebrate the small, cool pleasures Read on!
Ingredients: 1 package buckwheat soba noodles, cooked to al dente, drained and rinsed 1/2 pound green beans, trimmed, cut into 1″ lengths and blanched 1 cucumber, peeled, seeded and cut into 1/2″ pieces 1 c. cherry tomatopes, cut in half Read on!
Late-summer crops are always full of memories. Perhaps because I spent so much of my childhood summers in Louisiana with my grandparents, or perhaps just because summer cooking took over my grandmother’s life and filled her house with the steamy Read on!