Salmon and lima beans

Eastside Road, September 16, 2013—

YES, I KNOW, you've seen this supper before — it's the usual summertime Farm Market supper: Dave's salmon, Nancy's lima beans, Emmett's tomatoes, our Meyer lemon. You have to admit it's colorful, and tonight as I was eating I thought about the textures, and how well they play off one another — the flaky salmon, the mealy-in-a-good-sense limas, the chewy tender tomatoes. Green salad afterward, with some nice young leaves from the garden.

There'll almost certainly be fruit a little later. I've been eating marvelous Yellow Transparent plums, dead ripe on the tree, so ripe they'll drop into a cupped palm. There are still some Seckel pears. Raspberries. I even have a Pixie tangerine every day from the tree, this late in the year!

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