Delaware Girl Eats

Relish the Last Fruits of Summer with Peach and Nectarine Tart

Luscious fresh Jersey peaches and nectarines in a free-form tart Jersey peaches entice, captivate and make you salivate just at the scent of their aroma. They are summer’s greatest fruit masterpiece. One juicy, drippy, messy bite into their creamy deliciousness and you know for certain that no other fruit can match that same wildly sweet yet acidic tang. Not raspberries which I adore or blueberries or any the other stone fruit. And, their peak of ripeness is so fleetingly short, just a few scant weeks. Then it’s over, leaving us longing for next season. Peaches are exactly the kind of... Read more →

Two Ideas for Summer Bounty – Zucchini and Ricotta Ravioli or Zucchini Lasagna

When you’ve got zucchini why not make ravioli… Produce is so abundant right now that I had no choice but to write again about inspiring ways to use plentiful summer harvests. It’s that time of year when home gardeners such as myself are besieged with lots and lots of produce. Who knew when we planted dozens of tomatoes, two rows of peppers and what seemed like a modest number of zucchini that we would later rue that day? Sometimes it seems like the produce multiplies while we sleep. Take zucchini. You simply can’t turn your back on it. One day,... Read more →

Savoring Summer’s Bounty and Heirloom Tomato & Zucchini Tart

Heirloom tomatoes and zucchini in an open-faced tart It’s that time of summer when produce beckons. All of it. From that first bite into butter-slathered corn on the cob, to that cherry tomato that bursts with flavor when you pop it into your mouth, to the juicy sweetness of red ripe watermelon. Even zucchini, that butt of too many jokes. Well, I’m sure you get the drift. It’s that time of summer. And with so much summer produce at the peak of ripeness this month, now’s the time to improvise. Who needs a recipe? Try a few of the recipe-less... Read more →