I have a confession: I hate beets. I can’t eat more than a few bites of them. I’ve even had nice, well-seasoned beets… but after a couple bites, the beet flavor is overwhelming, and I can’t go on. I’ve heard for some time that beet greens (literally, the green, leafy part of the beet plant) [...]
This is one of those special occasion, once-a-year brunches. Because it is amazingly delicious, and really bad for you, but the deliciousness makes it worth it. As you might expect, croissants make wonderful French toast. They are rich and tender and easy to eat. (I like to think there’s something fitting about turning French croissants [...]
The time for New Year’s resolutions has passed, you’ll tell me, but from our food’s perspective, the new year is right around the corner. Spring is already in the air. For food lovers, this is the exciting, difficult time when everything is growing, but just about nothing is ready to eat. It is the perfect [...]
I had big plans for Labor Day – they involved a really long bike ride, followed by collapsing on the couch. But I woke up Monday morning to a slow, soaking rain and unrelenting grey skies, so I pulled the covers back over my head, slept a couple more hours, and decided to spend the [...]
Summer is a glorious time to be an eater. And since we (hopefully) all eat, it’s a great time to be me and you. There’s delicious, fresh food all around, much of it so fresh and ripe and tasty that it requires very little preparation. In winter, nothing tastes that great on its own, so [...]
A lot of my CSA-member friends have been wondering (aloud, in my vicinity) recently: what are these green, twisty things in my CSA share? And then: can I eat them? How? They are garlic scapes, and they taste, well, like garlic. People also call them garlic curls or pigtails. They’re the green part of garlic [...]
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I never liked mushrooms until I started eating other varieties besides white buttons (and cooking them in lots of butter). So my mushroom fascination is relatively new, but I’m entranced by them now, and I’m very excited about the mushroom vendor who frequents the winter season of our farmer’s market. Yesterday, they had fresh porcinis, [...]
If you read this blog regularly, you know that I’m a bit of a farmer’s market fanatic. During the spring, summer, and fall, I make it a point to get there nice and early, almost every single week. During the winter, I go less often, but I still try to go every couple weeks. I’m [...]
I found purple cauliflower at the farmer’s market this morning, and it was so pretty I had to get some. It’s pretty much the same as “normal” white cauliflower, except for the color, which is quite vibrant. I sauted it with garlic, ginger, cumin, and olive oil, along with some kale, and served it over [...]