Category: Delectables

• Heirloom Tomatoes with Chili Oil, Pesto and Mozzarella

  Here is a little recipe for the unofficial last day of summer. Except, this isn’t a recipe so much as a suggestion, in the way that tomatoes suggest a sprinkling of salt, and that pesto suggests gratings of cheese, and that it all suggests a hunk of bread. In other words, here is a plate…

  Chaya

  August 31, 2015

  Delectables

  bread, food, heirloom, lunch, mozzarella, parmesan, pesto, photography, recipes, seasonal, sourdough, summer, tomatoes, vegetables, vegetarian, writing

• Blackberry Buttermilk Rye Scones

  Scone dough is messy. It sticks to sun-warmed countertops and leaves buttery streaks in the bowl. It dusts me with a layer of flour and threatens to leak fruit as I work it. But scone dough is also restorative. It demands that you to knead it together. It requires that you worry about things like…

  Chaya

  August 25, 2015

  Delectables

  august, baking, blackberries, breakfast, brunch, buttermilk, food, photography, recipes, rye, scones, seasonal

• Spiced Stone Fruit Crumble Bars

  I don’t want to think about it being late August, or August at all. I don’t want to think about summer ending and taking with it its bounty of everything good. I don’t want to think about the ice cream maker that will sit collecting dust for a year, or about the peaches I won’t…

  Chaya

  August 21, 2015

  Delectables

  apricots, august, baking, bars, butter, crumble, delicious, dessert, food, peaches, photography, plums, recipes, seasonal, stone fruit, sugar, summer

• Eggplant & Tomato Jam

  I am going to hazard a guess and say that right now, in the dead of August, you are probably not interested in a recipe that involves a lot of time in the kitchen, especially time that is spent frying, blanching, peeling and simmering. I know. Neither am I. But the thing is, when I…

  Chaya

  August 12, 2015

  Delectables

  cooking, delicious, dinner, eggplant, food, food photography, gourmet, jalapeno, Mediterranean, middle eastern, recipes, spices, summer, supper, tomatoes

• Blackberry & Blueberry Cornmeal Crumble Pie

  What is magic? Depending on the day, my answer varies. Sometimes, when the kitchen smells like a patisserie and my hands are covered in flour, I will say that magic is watching 1,000 layers of a croissant expand. Sometimes, if I have just seen a tar-black black sky explode into color, I will tell you…

  Chaya

  August 7, 2015

  Delectables

  blackberry, blueberry, crumble, food, pie, recipes, summer, writing

• Roasted Blackberry Apricot Ice Cream

  The blackberries were on sale. Big boxes of them, full of ripe fruit- a sure sign of the advent of summer. They were calling to us, singing a song of green fields and sun, and their dark, midnight sheen was bewitching. We bought two cartons. “I bet we finish one box on the way home,”…

  Chaya

  July 19, 2015

  Delectables

  apricots, blackberries, cream cheese, dairy, delicious, dessert, food photography, fruit, heavy cream, ice cream, milk, recipes, seasonal, summer, sweet

• Sour Cherry Pie

  Late night pie happens like this: come home from the cherry orchard as the sun begins its slow descent. Wonder, how will we eat six pounds of cherries? Think: pie! Proceed to look for a cherry pitter, come up with fingers. Settle for a piping tip. Painstakingly pit and stem three pounds of cherries. Turn…

  Chaya

  July 17, 2015

  Delectables

  butter, cherry, food, fruit, photography, pie, pies, recipes, seasonal, sour cherries, sugar, summer

• Bourbon BBQ Beef Ribs with Cucumber Vinegar Slaw

  It’s almost the 4th of July- AKA, barbecue season! Do we agree that barbecues are the perfect meal, the only way to celebrate summer? Yes? Good! Let’s begin. What do your barbecues look like? Are they a carnivorous feast? Do you dole out fat slices of watermelon as guests arrive? We usually begin with lots of…

  Chaya

  July 2, 2015

  Delectables

  barbecue, bbq, beef, bourbon, cook, delicious, dinner, food, grill, july, july 4th, meat, recipes, ribs, short ribs, summer, supper

• A ♥ Letter to Summer: Sweet Cherry & Blueberry Galette

  Dear Summer, I love you for a lot of things. I love you for the golden glow you give me. I love you for your long afternoons. I love you for juicy watermelons, eaten with sticky fingers besides a dwindling stack of napkins. I love you for your sounds: sometimes, a hazy stillness, sometimes, crickets…

  Chaya

  June 26, 2015

  Delectables

  blueberries, butter, cherries, dairy, delicious, dessert, food, fruit, galette, june, photography, pie, recipes, seasonal, summer, writing

• Triple Berry Pavlova

  Summer! Fresh berries, freedom, joy. For the next few months, the sun is on my side. I like that very much. I am eating all the berries I can get my hands on. Mostly just fresh, or on yogurt. But when I feel fancy, I love putting berries on a pavlova. There’s something so perfect…

  Chaya

  June 19, 2015

  Delectables

  bake, berries, delicious, dessert, eat, fruit, good, june, pavlova, photography, recipes, seasonal, summer