Delaware Girl Eats

Tomato and Chili Pepper Jam #SundaySupper

Tomato jam spiced up with chili peppers The scent of a perfectly ripe tomato evokes the essence of summer - a combination of grass, dirt, sunshine, fruit and taste. It's all about the taste. Nothing can match that taste, even tomatoes from the farmers’ market. Certainly not those imitation of life tomatoes from the grocery store. And, they are good for you too. The average tomato is 95% water and delivers only 30 calories, while being packed with Vitamins A, B & C, along with calcium and iron. So why not splurge… considering that biting into a ripe, juicy, still... Read more →

Pasta with Creamy Corn Sauce and Summer Vegetables #Sundaysupper

Summer's best with corn sauce for pasta and fresh summer vegetables The saying goes that corn should be “knee high by the fourth of July”. Well this year’s crop certainly has surpassed that standard here in the midst of August. Today, driving down the one-lane country road to our house on the Chesapeake, a sea of of hugely tall corn splendid with lush green stalks and feathery tassels enveloped my car. The plantings were so thick that it was impossible to see the individual rows, almost like in the movie “Field of Dreams”. That neighboring farmer reports that each stalk... Read more →