An End-of-Summer Trip to Cape Cod with Laura Silverman - Gardenista
Hydrangeas grow taller than your head. Photographs via Glutton for Life. Visiting friends, on a pond in Wellfleet. On the beach, about a mile down the road from Laura’s friends’ house, she discovered treasures: rose hips and seaweed and bayberry bushes on the dunes. Of bayberries, Laura says, “The berries have a waxy coating that was traditionally used to make candles, and the fragrant leaves are an effective insect repellent.” A garden filled with hydrangeas, mint, wild roses, and … Cucumbers from the vegetable garden. “Surely your garden is as overrun with cucumbers as mine is,” says Laura. If you don’t have buttermilk (and only the real stuff, not that watery lowfat crap, is any good), substitute yogurt. Peel cucumbers and remove any large, horsey seeds. Add these vegetables plus herbs, buttermilk, and oil to blender or Vitamix and process until very smooth.