Burrata

A rather pornographic view of soft, pillowy burrata on late tomatoes. Burrata is mozzarella - buffalo here - with a much creamier inside, so it all threatens to fall apart upon slicing. It is textural heaven.

I must now go and pour hot jam into sterilized jars, and must stir a bean chile on the stove. Chile! Oops. Hang on.

Phew. That was close. The chile nearly had no chile. Now it has anchos in it. It also has smoked pork hocks, smoked bacon cubes, celery, carrot, garlic and onion, and black beans. All we need is a cowboy movie to watch. See here for the recipe (I don't think it has the hocks, though); you wouldn't believe how many people land on the blog looking for Terence Hill's beans.