About Gaby

There’s no denying it. Summer is definitely winding down. The days are getting shorter, the evenings are getting cooler. And if you’re lucky, you have more tomatoes than you can handle, growing in your garden, arriving in your CSA box, or finding their way into your bag at the farmers’ market. You’ve made gazpacho, caprese salad, minestrone, primavera, ratatouille. You’ve snacked on cherry tomatoes and grilled heirlooms. What else can you do with them? Introduce them to an amazing contraption that converts raw vegetables into tender, delicious, intensified vegetables: Put them in your oven!

Summer Comfort Soup

In late summer, I tend to get a bit anxious when the weather starts shifting. I enjoy these amazing mid-70s days but I’m already thinking ahead to cooler days and the coming of winter.

I love summer and can never eat enough salads on shade-covered benches, so at a difficult time of transition like this, I seek comfort food. When I think comfort food, I think soup. And when I looked at the green beans, tomatoes, potatoes and basil I had gotten from my CSA, I thought: minestrone! So I chopped, pureed and found comfort in a bowl.

Not Your Mother’s Tabbouleh

On summer nights, the mere thought of firing up the oven or standing over the stove with a stir-fry can make you start sweating. But how do you eat raw vegetables for months without dying of boredom? By incorporating a couple of pantry items and remembering that “salads” aren’t just the great-looking leafy greens and colorful vegetables you picked up at the farmers’ market. Varying your meals with …

You Say Tomato

When I was growing up, a “cherry tomato” was red, about an inch in diameter, and was OK. A mild-mannered little sibling of what I knew as a “tomato.” At some point, I learned about plum, beefsteak and grape tomatoes. But it wasn’t until recent years, as I made more and more trips to farmers’ markets, that I discovered the amazingly varied world of tomatoes—a world that …

Meal in a Box?

One of the delights of participating in community supported agriculture is not knowing what food you’ll get from week to week. One box from your farm may contain bok choy, broccoli, garlic scapes and other goodies. And another may hold cherry tomatoes, shallots, eggplant and more. These welcome surprises can inspire delicious experiments, and one experiment is to put everything together in one dish without a …