Vegetables

Eastside Road, Healdsburg, May 17, 2009—

THE LAST MEALS here on Eastside Road for a few weeks, and a bit irrational. Well, not irrational; quite rational, since market-driven. And healthful; and tasty. But odd. For lunch, a big bowl of Guacamole My Way, shared with a couple of friends and a bowl of odd puff-tortilla-chips. Three avocados, two big shallots, two big jalapeños, not quite enough cilantro, two little limes, salt, the Secret Ingredient.

Then, supper: favas, Lindsey's labor-intensive gift to the evening, with little artichokes that I'd crisped in olive oil and salt. And now Lindsey's in the kitchen doing something with rhubarb.

Cheap Pinot grigio