It’s summer tomato season! This is the time, and honestly the only time, when we can truly enjoy eating fresh, juicy tomatoes. Our lunchtime sandwiches, with a thick tomato slice inside, go from blah to delicious. For dinner, our ritual is to set out a big plate of tomato slices. I like them plain, but […]
Creamy Chicken Cacciatore
All-in-one pot dishes bring back not-so-lovely memories from my childhood of picking at stringy, dry meat slathered in a piquant sauce. Yes, meat can be dry and nearly inedible even if swimming in sauce–or at least that is how I looked at it when my three-foot-high-self was forced to deal with eating some sort of […]