Plate to Plate

Eating locally in the Berkshires

Vegetables

Herby Potato Salad

August 20, 2009 at 5:00 PM by Frances

A good potato salad, made with just-dug potatoes and a fantastic olive oil, doesn’t need to be encroached upon by that hated condiment, mayonnaise.

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Sesame Green Beans

August 11, 2009 at 2:45 PM by Frances

Try this very simple and compulsively eatable recipe with any green or yellow wax beans you have on hand. You may find that you can’t help but nip up the beans with your fingers, right out of the serving dish.

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Zucchini and Potato Charlotte

July 29, 2009 at 8:52 AM by Frances

It’s official, people. Zucchini season is here.

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Quinoa-Stuffed Pattypan Squash with Summer Herbs

July 16, 2009 at 5:18 PM by Frances

The pattypan is just so cute, and so bowl-like, it’s almost begging to be cut open and stuffed.

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Giant Escarole Calzones

July 14, 2009 at 12:28 PM by Frances

These calzones, adapted from a recipe in the inimitable Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, are like enormous, portable pizza pockets.

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