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Sunday Kitchen

Tomato Cobbler

Ease tomatoes into autumn with a twist on the sweetened fruit standard that’s flexible enough to accommodate a topper of ready-to-bake canned biscuits or your own scratch-made soft and flaky quick-breads. In the end, it might be the treatment given the fruit that matters most.

Produce Junction, Part 2

Happy Labor Day Weekend! If you took the party challenge and did a little prep this past week, making the most of the convergence of high summer and fall vegetables and fruits, you’re ready and set to go-ahead with a great spread of eats. If you’re winging it at the last minute, do so with what’s prime at this most bountiful time of year with easy small bites of the put-together variety.

Produce Junction, Part 1

Extend those invitations right now and have a party sometime on Labor Day Weekend. The season’s convergence of high summer and fall vegetables and fruits will lead the way to an easier-than-you-think menu of bright-flavor foods. Next Sunday, we’ll offer ideas of the last-minute variety.

Ten Ways to Love Eggplant

Whether you’re an eggplant lover or you need the trappings of a parm to make it palatable, know that our Garden State is No, 1 in the nation for eggplant production and we at TPW want you to make the most of its time at NJ’s farmers’ markets and on local farmstands. That’s why we’re offering these non-parm how-tos.

Tomato Butter

A summer staple to use now or freeze to warm winter later comes with a story that tips a hat to a couple of very grande dames.

Zuke Cups

One of the season’s most prolific crops gets a new look and a new use with minimal effort. Sporty and cute, these little vessels offer smooth sailing in the kitchen on a summer night.

AwesomeYo’s Spiced Potato Chips

A chip that can make a snack into a meal is found at an eatery in Metuchen that sports savory fare and baked goods, as well as pure-gold finds such as these brashly seasoned homemade crisps.

Colorful, Creamy and Crunchy

Watts Organic Farm’s Adirondack Blue and Pink potatoes inspire a salad built on unexpected textures and zesty elements.

A Cheeky Proposition

We’re back with Cape May Captain Brady Lybarger, who this time has carved out of his jumbo tilefish catches a delicacy that might inspire us all to get on board with a little advocacy that’d help make an uncommon part of a fish a bit more accessible to aficionados.

Sashimi Cucumbers from Eastbound Acres

A bio-intensive market garden farm in southern Ocean County grows an uncommon, highly desirable Japanese cuke variety known for its crispness, sweetness and light seed content. It makes for refreshing eating completely unadorned as well as a delightful vessel for hors d’oeuvres.

Big Blues Salad

A score of a flat of organic blueberries from McCay’s early harvest at its Hammonton fields inspires a dinner-size toss of most amiable ingredients.

The Scoop on Frozen Green Grapes

Blitz, turn into slush, spice and eat. It’s the season for making the absolute easiest of chilling treats.


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