This easy ratatouille recipe is the perfect use for leftover summer veggies, it’s wonderfully fresh and flavorful and hearty, and it’s ultra-simple when sautéd together in a large pot (instead of the traditional method of neatly layering all of those veggies). I highly recommend serving it with a good crusty baguette.
This is the time of year when all of Kansas City comes downtown to visit my little neighborhood. And it’s crazy and it’s chaotic and our streetcar is packed to the gills and people regularly park in my reserved space and the line at my coffee shop takes an eternity…but I love it. 💛
As many of you know, when I quit my last job and decided to freelance from home and suddenly realized that I was free to live absolutely anywhere I wanted in Kansas City, my decision was a no-brainer — I wanted to live as close to my favorite market in town as possible. Luckily, the stars aligned that summer, and I stumbled into a lease in an unknown little apartment building literally right across the street from the market. And now over 5 years later, I’ve been thrilled to call my little nook of the River Market home ever since.
I just love this neighborhood.
And — one of the surprise joys of marriage has been actually been getting to fall in love with this neighborhood all over again now that I’m seeing it through Barclay’s eyes. This past weekend, for example, we had a wide open day on Saturday and were brainstorming the night before about places we could go or things we could do. But then he got this little sparkle in his eye and said, “Actually, how about we just have a relaxing day in the neighborhood? Grab some coffee at Quay, go by the market, maybe ride the streetcar somewhere nearby for lunch, have a reading date at home, a drink at Farmhouse…”
Annnnd….cue all the feels. 💓 💓 💓
It ended up being the best day. And made me so thankful yet again for the season that I — and now we — have been able to call this precious neighborhood home. And even though the market was absolutely jam-packed with people all weekend, I was thankful for the thousandth time to be able to walk across the street and soak up the scene and bring home the most beautiful rainbow of veggies for us this week — many of which I used to toss into this easy ratatouille recipe, which I’m convinced everyone needs to make at least once during the summertime.
