The Squash of Summer: Recipe for a Rainy Day

By Lori Powell

Squash is the gift that keeps on giving. Those of you who have ever grown squash of any variety are nodding your heads in agreement at the thought of so much bounty and having to deal with what to do with it all.

The bounty I’m dealing with is what to do with tomatoes this year. Since I am sensitive to their acidity I walk around with a rather tender palate during the last days of summer. Why should I have to stop eating them? Really the pain and discomfort is not that bad – at least not yet!

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Laboring on Labor Day

By Lori Powell

It’s the Labor Day weekend. Well to some….

I will be in San Francisco shopping for a cookbook shoot but if I were resting my laurels on this lovely long weekend, I would be having a BBQ or better yet, attending one. There is a lot of labor in Labor Day, if you know what I mean. Especially for those of you who are hosting that BBQ.

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Talkin’ Lobster Tales!

By Lori Powell

Yippee, finally on vacation! Rolled into Wiscasset, Maine, super-hungry, at around 10 p.m. Sunday night on Route 1…and low and behold, one of the best lobster shacks in the world, Red’s Eats, was still open with no line. (It turns out they stay open until 11 p.m. during the summer.)

During the day, the line can reach up to 40 people and take about an hour to finally reach the window to place your order. Talk about seeing the pot of gold after a traffic-congested, eight-hour drive up from NY!

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Inside Special Fork

By Sandy Hu

Like our new look? Special Fork blog is evolving! The new masthead is a sneak peek at the look and feel of our soon-to-be-launched Special Fork mobile recipe website. If you follow me on Twitter @specialforksndy, you’ll see I’ve also changed my Twitter page to better match the Special Fork identity.

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Celebrate Tomato Season

By Lori Powell

Finally… since it is a bit cooler up here in the Hudson Valley, tomato season has just arrived and with a flourish. Last year all of my carefully planted and tended plants turned black and were subject to the tomato blight. Sadly, no tomatoes. But this year is making up for it.

Every day I have a basketful of new shapes and colors. And every day there is the struggle to get out there and pick them before the rest of the animal population does.

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