This is just what I needed to cure my food fatigue. It's been so hot where I live and cooking has seemed too laborious. These salads look bright, refreshing and easy. Definitely on the list this weekend! Also, have to say that I made your potato salad with the celery vinegar last week and YES. That vinegar is a dream.
Eating outside is everything this time of year. Congrats on your new outdoor space! I will def try your new recipes as soon as I move to my new patio in a few weeks.
Dill can be so persnickety when it is cultivated. My best tip is for next year- let it self sow. I find dill growing gangbusters everywhere, even in a crack in the sidewalk. But sow a seed in a pot? Fussy, fussy. Like a lot of children, dill seems to thrive when free range.
But for that pot, I try to use a very compost-y light soil, in lots of sun, and try not to let it dry out too much. And I don't begrudge the prices charged by the amazing growers who bring big bunches of dill to market!
Thanks as always for wonderful recipes and wonderful food/life stories.
Okay girl, here's what's worrying me. The width of the gaps between the slats of the wooden deck planks. I'm scared that a skinny lawn chair leg will kinda just plop through it. More seriously, on that deck w/ those gaps, can you wear a bad-ass stiletto heel? Or, if I was invited over - which I am not - could I?? I think on some existential level I need to live in a world where *I know for a fact that IF SHE WANTED TO* Alison Roman can grill fish in sexy-ass stilettos on her damn deck if she wants to, thank you very much. (Maybe I ask too much of the universe. I mean, I usually cook & entertain in bare feet so... but I'm just mulling this important issue over...)...
its actually the one thing that I would change about the deck tbh- chairs definitely falling through those gaps. but good to know for next time, I guess?!
Hey - If it doesn't interfere with your party/having-people-over life... or your patio-hang-out happiness, then no worries. I'm just a high-heels girl (til the jams start bangin then the shoes are flung off) so I was just worrying about any fellow high-heel sistas in your life. But hey - baby steps. First you're just learning how great it is to be a patio person, to have morning coffee out there... a quiet glass of wine out there... to have a grill, and an HERB GARDEN! That's the main thing. Making it just right can come later. Happy for ya sister. (And - hey - the episode where you did a simple fish grilling out there? Really helped me get over my fear of cooking - & ruining - fish. So - thank you, Alison's patio, for that!)
A lovely patio! I added a big rectangle of fake grass to my roof deck and it magically transformed into a park-like setting.
This is just what I needed to cure my food fatigue. It's been so hot where I live and cooking has seemed too laborious. These salads look bright, refreshing and easy. Definitely on the list this weekend! Also, have to say that I made your potato salad with the celery vinegar last week and YES. That vinegar is a dream.
Eating outside is everything this time of year. Congrats on your new outdoor space! I will def try your new recipes as soon as I move to my new patio in a few weeks.
With this newsletter, it feels like summer is officially here. That tomato salad….YESSSS!!!
Dill is really hard to grow.
All I’ve wanted to eat this summer so far is your iceberg lettuce salad from Nothing Fancy
Yes, yes, yes! I LOVE that salad!
I love the handle, Eyes of Laura Nyro. Should be "Eyes of THE GREAT Laura Nyro"
Lovely patio!
Dill can be so persnickety when it is cultivated. My best tip is for next year- let it self sow. I find dill growing gangbusters everywhere, even in a crack in the sidewalk. But sow a seed in a pot? Fussy, fussy. Like a lot of children, dill seems to thrive when free range.
But for that pot, I try to use a very compost-y light soil, in lots of sun, and try not to let it dry out too much. And I don't begrudge the prices charged by the amazing growers who bring big bunches of dill to market!
Thanks as always for wonderful recipes and wonderful food/life stories.
Okay girl, here's what's worrying me. The width of the gaps between the slats of the wooden deck planks. I'm scared that a skinny lawn chair leg will kinda just plop through it. More seriously, on that deck w/ those gaps, can you wear a bad-ass stiletto heel? Or, if I was invited over - which I am not - could I?? I think on some existential level I need to live in a world where *I know for a fact that IF SHE WANTED TO* Alison Roman can grill fish in sexy-ass stilettos on her damn deck if she wants to, thank you very much. (Maybe I ask too much of the universe. I mean, I usually cook & entertain in bare feet so... but I'm just mulling this important issue over...)...
its actually the one thing that I would change about the deck tbh- chairs definitely falling through those gaps. but good to know for next time, I guess?!
Hey - If it doesn't interfere with your party/having-people-over life... or your patio-hang-out happiness, then no worries. I'm just a high-heels girl (til the jams start bangin then the shoes are flung off) so I was just worrying about any fellow high-heel sistas in your life. But hey - baby steps. First you're just learning how great it is to be a patio person, to have morning coffee out there... a quiet glass of wine out there... to have a grill, and an HERB GARDEN! That's the main thing. Making it just right can come later. Happy for ya sister. (And - hey - the episode where you did a simple fish grilling out there? Really helped me get over my fear of cooking - & ruining - fish. So - thank you, Alison's patio, for that!)
Has the scallop pasta recipe been released? Anxiously awaiting!