So I once again find myself in the midst of tomato season—piles of tomatoes seem to appear every time I turn around (okay, maybe piles is a bit of an exaggeration, but seriously, we have a lot of tomatoes.) We have been eating BLT's, tomato, basil, and mozzarella salad, and we even tried a couple new recipes this week—grilled bread salad that was really good, and a roasted cherry tomato and goat cheese pasta that was simple and scrumptious. There is one thing I had not tried to make this week—homemade tomato sauce. In fact, I have never tried to make tomato sauce from scratch because …
Simply perusing the creative flavor offerings of Susanna's Ice Cream is enough to make one suspect that Rhode Island Monthly may have been onto something when naming the Middletown farm-based Susanna's Ice Cream the "Best Ice Cream" in Rhode Island for 2010. Taste one of the creamy flavors and there is little room for disagreement—this has got to be the best ice cream our state has to offer. Sue Williams, proprietor of Susanna's Ice Cream at Sweet Berry Farm in Middletown, is full of kinetic energy that seems appropriate for someone who spends her days crafting mouthwatering ice creams and …
This week's market share… It is easy to forget just how good local, in-season blueberries really are. I bought my first fresh pint from Sweet Berry Farm at the Aquidneck Growers Market this past Saturday. After that first irresistible taste (in the parking lot, of course) I wasn't sure that any of the berries would actually make it home. They were so good, in fact, that I was inspired to do something I haven't done since I was a kid—go pick my own blueberries. Sweet Berry Farm is one of Middletown's hidden gems—100 acres of farmland nestled, unpresuming, just off Third Beach Road. …
This Week's Market Share… To say zucchini is abundant right now is an understatement. Middletown folks who have a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) with Simmons Farm know what I am talking about. Picking up last week's share, I was astonished to see that our couple share included four pounds of zucchini and other summer squash. For anyone who hasn't weighed this firm, green vegetable lately, four pounds is equivalent to five or six large zucchini. I scrambled to use our week's allotment, making a double batch of the zucchini pancakes popular in our house, only to find that this week's…
