Chef's Choice: There's still time for summer desserts

I determined early in the year that my cooking hands would do what my writing fingers so frequently recommend: turn to locally grown foods, especially fruits and vegetables, whenever possible.

I wasn't sure how I would manage this commitment given a toddler and a riotous second pregnancy, but I was determined. I would plant, pick and forage, avoiding convenient yet dull mass-market grocery stores whenever possible. 

When I resolved in January to better walk my talk in regard to local food, my imagination wandered to languorous summer mornings spent with my daughter in my garden and at local U-pick farms: picnics on...