Broccoli and spring onions with tofu and coconut milk. In appearance, it ended up like a cream dish, and I served in bowls on top of rice. (Photo: Yucca plants, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.) >> June 1 << May 30

It’s the tradition, we were told, to freeze your wedding cake and eat it a year later. We were fully expecting a Miss Havisham experience. Instead, once it had defrosted, I could hardly notice a difference from before. It’s a white cake with pockets of lemon inside, and it really did taste and feel like…

On the beach, the day started out in a haze that obscured the horizon and cut off the top of the big hotels. Later the fog cleared, or rather the sun poked out through holes and made it hot enough that jumping into the ice water became a welcome diversion. A couple next to us…

The bed and breakfast we usually stay at in Rehoboth has the same breakfast, or similar variations on it, prepared every morning on the front porch: there is either coffee cake, sometimes the color of coffee and other times the color of raspberries, or else a kind of filled french toast; also there’s quiche cut…

We drove to Rehoboth for the weekend, arriving late at night before we ended up at a restaurant called the Iguana Grill. They had the curious idea to adopt the decor and general appearance of a Mexican restaurant without actually serving Mexican food. The menu was heavy with meat, fish, and pasta. Bread, pasta, and…

The lettuce I planted has grown from seedlings to sprouts to baby lettuce. On a warm summer night, I went out and thinned the baby collards, baby mustard greens, baby romaine, and baby butterhead, ending up with a small handful of greens. The only trouble was that I don’t find raw mustard greens particularly appealing…

We were finishing our two-day-old Malbec and it had turned into an off-sweet imitation of a cheap dessert wine, but it was still a lot more pleasant to drink than whatever the house red was at the Irish pub where we’d gone for trivia the night before. I don’t mind drinking low-end red wine at…