Vegetables

Eastside Road, Healdsburg, October 9, 2009—

FIVE SERVINGS A DAY, we're told, and this time of the year that's a pleasure. Five servings of fruits and vegetables, that is.

We began with peppers, the skin burnt off, then chopped and sautéed in olive oil, with slice tomatoes and broccoli just lightly steamed, and went on to penne in pesto. For fruit, these days we have apples, pears, and figs from the garden; today we had a melon too, from a nearby farm. All this and baseball too. It's a good life, even though our teams don't look so good.

Rosé, Louis Jadot (Beaujolais), 2007