It’s been nine days since I wrote the following post, and already the grapes are passing. I hope it’s not too late. But getting the @!!*& photo of the grapes out of my camera took me a while, for some reason. Too busy with a cool new project at work, which maybe I’ll tell you about sometime.

But to cast my mind back to September 10, here’s a quick summary of some memorable delicious tastes I recounted during the twenty-four hours preceding my writing.

1. Mussels from the Quarterdeck (via the Harvard General Store’s “Fishmail”), cooked per instructions in the worthwhile book Tomato by Lawrence Davis-Hollander, currently available at Westward Orchards. It’s a typically easy mussel recipe, with the notable addition of chopped tomatoes from the garden, which are in their precious last days. I off-roaded a bit and added potatoes from a friend’s garden. Bliss! (Figuratively, not “bliss potatoes.”) I’m in a groove of making mussels every couple weeks. So easy, so yummy and fun. I love Fishmail!
    
2. Joanna’s New World Biscotti “Chocolate a Quattro” from the Harvard Farmer’s Market. Just the thing to go with a cappuccino from the General Store. Worth straying from the diet, for these….
    
3. Wild grapes from the backyard. Wild grapes are my second favorite weed, next to wild raspberries. Yet another year has passed when I never got around to pickling their leaves. Next year, I hope. For now, though, I’m enjoying nibbling on a bowl of them at my desk. They are so sour and so weird, each one is a tiny little adventure!

I hope you can still find some.