What's on Eli's Mind
Spring is here even if it’s not white shorts weather yet. A cold spring makes us all impatient for summer which I know will be here soon enough. While we are waiting there is plenty to enjoy. We have been harvesting the greenhouse tomatoes since early May and they are pretty impressive. So plentiful that I’ve put fried green tomatoes on the menu at Eli’s Table, along with the ripe red ones and our house-made mozzarella. This harvest should keep us satisfied until summer starts sending us her sun-warmed treasures. Tons of great produce from California, sweet peas and fava beans, spring onions and ramps plus, as long as they last, the worlds best strawberries from Swanton Farms. We have local blooms in the flower department and greenhouse herbs for planting in your urban garden—even if it’s only a pot on a window sill, it’s still lovely to be able to snip a bit of fresh basil for your pasta at the end of a long day.