Delaware Girl Eats

Summer Garden Harvest and Twilight time

Pictured is a mini-version of the Torte It’s a quiet twilight after an afternoon of harvesting from the garden. Sitting on the deck of my house in Hollywood Beach, MD. I listen to the drone of a plane overhead on its way to Philadelphia. As dusk settles, birds sing a final song before saying goodnight. The sun drops lower and lower on the Elk River, casting an ever widening afterglow. In my yard, fireflies start to flicker, low to the ground, at first just twinkling dots here and there, then a cloud of bursting brilliance. Their bright yellow light flashes... Read more →

Bastille Day Red White and Blue Dessert

Monday is Bastille Day, a French holiday akin to July 4th in the US. Our countries are bound by ties going back to the American Revolution, so I thought it fitting to mark the occasion with a rouge, blanc et bleu dish inspired by the current Cook the Books selection, “The Apprentice - My life in the Kitchen” written by French chef Jacques Pepin. I am doubly found of Jacques Pepin. He was raised in one of my favorite regions of France, in Bourg en Bresse near Lyon. Friends and I have spent many all too short weekends wandering the... Read more →