Waning Summer Evenings
A few nights ago, lost in a post-work daze, I bumbled into my apartment building. I had few plans for the evening: Check mail, pour a glass of wine, fall onto the couch. But waiting at my door was a box of local farm produce from Door-to-Door Organics.
In minutes, I was unpacking bunches of leafy green spinach, sweet Colorado cantaloupe, and husky ears of corn. My culinary imagination ignited, I pulled Marco Canora’s excellent cookbook Salt to Taste off the shelf and flipped to the recipe for corn and pancetta risotto.
Soon golden kernels of Colorado corn filled my kitchen, and as I cut the juicy kernels from the cob and stirred them into wine- and pancetta-seasoned rice, I was grateful. Sweet, seasonal produce reminded me to enjoy the waning days of summer.
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Sounds good, although I hate to have to admit that summer is waning…can’t it go on?
Ah, that’s when you make risotto and freeze it! I do know what you mean, though. I would like just a few more summer evenings.
Looks delicious and Anna said it was amazing – you’ll have to share the recipe with her.
You’ll have to get her to make it for you at Thanksgiving!