take my breath away......

My sugar roots run deep, and I am not a huge fan of meat, so what kind of foods snag me? I have been thinking about, dreaming of obsessing over this recipe ever since I first laid eyes on it last September in the New York Times, oh my, can you imagine, last September! My collection of recipes from newspapers, magazines and people I ask in the check-out line of the grocery store (yes I do) is off the charts, no real surprise there, I'm reeling with the number of recipes I need, yes need to make. They are meticulously filed away  okay, haphazardly thrown in a drawer waiting to be made one glorious day in the far-flung future, and the pile keeps growing......

Well, no more baby, I'm making one now.

I'm choosy about the foods I buy, I have to find them almost attractive somehow, oh my, (I know). I am inspired most often in the produce section, adorable baby sweet peas and sassy bulbs of fennel leave me weak-in-the-knees. Luscious peaches and pears, cheeky radishes, dainty lettuces, gutsy onions, lovely silky leeks, beautiful berries, all of this awesomeness about which I could drone on and on, takes-my-breath-away......dude, I love the produce section! I am inspired by the beauty I find there, it changes everything for me. Not everyone feels this way, I get that, but I look at plump, ripe tomatoes, and think, what shall I make today?  Sometimes, and I'm not proud of this, I buy produce just to come home and live on my counter so that I can gaze upon it's lovelyness to my hearts content, I'm just saying, it's the little things that make me happy.

 

 
tomato eclairs with creamy ricotta and basil filling

(go here for recipe)