It’s time for a new recipe, and this one’s inspired by the unkempt winter mess of our front yard. We’ve boiled up whatever nettles we could find on the path to the letterbox to make a brilliant green dough, and then filled that with a simple, smooth mix of mascarpone, toasted walnut, and lemon zest. And it’s all served on a bitter bed of radicchio, sautéed in white wine, with crunchy cacciatore sprinkled on top.

And that’s another Tomato Day done and dusted! It’s been two years since I posted about this holiest of culinary days, and I almost let this one slide. After all, it’s just the same thing every year. You’ve all got the recipe. But then I looked through the photos and videos, and I was reminded of why we really do it, which is not about the tomatoes at all.

The past few years have been a wild, generally unpleasant family ride through chronic health issues, and we’re still just doing what we can to hang in there. Gluten-free is easy enough, and we’ve had great success adapting everything to GF (as you would have noticed in recent posts), and dairy-free is not too hard either (choking back your tears at not being able to drink grated pecorino straight from the bag when no one’s looking). But grain-free is a little trickier… So we’ve made things easier for ourselves by adding these gnocchi into regular rotation!