We’re enjoying an East coast vacation with old friends—down the road from Boston, near Cape Cod–in a hundred-year-old cottage on a lake.  This is the land of baked beans—there’s a whole section in the supermarket—and laid-back meals cooked by a crew of ten, aged seven to fifty-something.

While we’re gone, please check out our recipe archive, or explore on your own. Improvise and try something new. Let us know what you come up with.

If we were home in California, we’d be roasting the green beans with onion wedges and tossing with lemon juice and zest, salt and pepper and Marcona almonds.  A favorite dish.

And enjoying the first cucumbers of summer.  Slice some into a tumbler of ice water or homemade watermelon agua fresca.  A refreshing drink on a hot day by the lake.  Or wherever you happen to find yourself.  Enjoy.

We’ll be back next week.