I'm in the midst of breaking in the new camera over a Mozzarella & Swiss Chard Frittata and Garden Tomato Salad. The frittata is like all my other ones - a great mixture of eggs, cream, salt and pepper piled on top of sauteed vegetables. In this case, I cooked up some swiss chard and garlic from the farm. After pouring in the egg mixture, I ripped big hunks of fresh whole milk mozzarella into the pan and popped the entire thing into the oven. While it cooked just until set, I sliced up some "seconds" tomatoes from the farm. (Seconds mean that they weren't quite pretty enough to charge for due to blemishes on the skin. I love seconds as they're oozing and dripping with goodness, and I don't mind the blemishes. No one, or no thing, is perfect!) After slicing the tomatoes into large hunks, I tossed them with sea salt, pepper, torn basil leaves, red wine vinegar and good lemon-flavored olive oil. I opted to christen the camera with these gorgeous tomato shots, and so, piled the tomatoes on top of the frittata. It all looked so luscious, I invited the Mom over and we all devoured the entire ...

Olives are in my top 10 of favorite foods. A great snack food, olives often get packed in little containers for my mid-afternoon fuel break. I serve them anytime, as a starter, in a salad, in a Spicy Sicilian Chicken dish, in tuna or chicken salad sandwiches, whenever a little extra salt is needed. (In those cases, I always omit the seasoning salt part of the dish.) While I serve them at dinner parties, olives don't make it into my dinner time menu on a regular week night. My husband cannot stand them. He's been plagued with memories of canned black pitted olives since childhood and can't get past their salty but bland taste. I've tried and tried to curtail his disgust, with no luck. No worries! A few days in Nice celebrated (and on some level tired me) of my olive habit. I'm sure I just need a break for a few weeks. I'll be back to it in no time. Until then, some photos from the Nice and Antibes markets. Related posts:The Best Coffee Ever… in Nice?The New Camera and Garden TomatoesSummer Tomatoes in Wine Country

There's little that makes me happier than a reliable sweet treat. Located on the cutest side street just outside Harvard Square, BerryLine has been serving creamy, tangy frozen yogurt since 2007. My favorite combination involves the tangy original flavored yogurt, which feels like thick, sweet, bright Greek yogurt on the palate, smothered on each side by chocolate chips and Fruity Pebbles cereal. Fruity Pebbles is most certainly a blast from the past. As my absolute favorite cereal as a child, I'd eat it at any hour for any meal, happy as the cartoon character it was named after. The tang of the cereal meshes well with the tang of the yogurt. The chocolate chips provide a sweet divide between the two. BerryLine is quite the community experience, so do try to visit. The little spot on Arrow Street is mobbed most evenings, and the street curbs fill up with vibrant conversation, all completely complimentary to BerryLine. I try to hit this little shop once per week, because the yogurt truly is healthy and nutritious, unless you top it with sugary, sweet ingredients. Uh, it's really good with Fruity Pebbles anyway. Related posts:ShoutOut: Boutique FroyoBlogger Recipe: Chocolate M-o-o-usse with Olive OilLunch at Great Queen Street Restaurant

I don't believe I ever shared photos of my big, gigantic, cheesy, lopsided burger: It's nestled in a slightly-over-charred bun with butter lettuce leaves from my garden. It's filled with gorgonzola cheese and topped with caramelized red onions. It's thick and rich and lopsided, but perfect. Perfectly not perfect. And it looks damn pretty, albeit not so perfect, on a plate with my Lemon Cilantro Potato Salad. Related posts:Lemon Cilantro Potato SaladQuick Lunch: Chicken Sausage with MacheJuly 4th Menu Includes Tomato Bruschetta…

A few weeks ago, the husband requested my presence at a date in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the city in which our romance blossomed seven years ago. We both lived in the North Cambridge/Porter Square vicinity, a neighborhood fairly barren of fine dining establishments at the time, a little sweet pocket of Cambridge that just didn't have much going on. Boy, have times changed, and all over Cambridge. Like our old neighborhood, the strip of Massachusetts Avenue between Harvard and Central Squares was equally bland, only speckled with late night dive bars and modern furniture stores. Until 2007, that is, when a great young chef opened a little spot called Garden at the Cellar, a sweet little spot I was beckoned to for drinks and snacks. Snacks turned into dinner. In fact, the spot was so great, we had friends meet us there for late night drinks and even more snacks. Everything was cooked and assembled with such care and attention to detail, like the lovely yellow beet salad pictured above. The Chef, Will Gilson, had given the scoop on his sourcing, cooking and dining philosophies to my company a few week's earlier. Will is big into being kind to the environment, and practices ...