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Just when I thought there was no reprieve from the crazy rain, fog and cold wind whipping around San Francisco, I got a little slice of Summer heaven in the form of a radish. Watermelon radishes are very deceiving from the outside; they’re pale, knobby, and ugly just like a turnip. But then you slice [...]
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Thanks to a huge navel orange tree that lives in the back of a family member’s house, I am gifted with these sweet, juicy fruit all winter long. Their thick, firm skin is super easy to peel – making them a perfect snacking fruit – and their seedless flesh eliminates any annoying roadblocks while noshing on [...]
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Fall, Fall – my favorite time of year! The air is crisp, the leaves crunch underfoot, the reintroduction of Starbucks’ Holiday beverages threaten not only my waistline but my wallet, and – my personal favorite – the grocery stores are packed with colorful winter squash and gourds! Contrary to my experience growing up, these oddly [...]
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Jillian and I had the same idea this week, utilizing the season’s last showing of green beans in our kitchens. I would have thought by mid-October these beans would be long gone but low and behold I saw a heaping pile at my weekly market visit. Plus, I’m still holding out on squash, chard and [...]
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Fresh cranberry beans are absolutely gorgeous with their white, pink, and magenta hues and their crazy stripes or splatters. The pods are similar to size of green beans, but are white, pale green or pink. And, they’re just as tasty as they’re beatiful. Like other cooking beans such as kidney or cannelline, I find their [...]
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When cooking up leafy greens, my typical ‘go to’ is spinach. But, while brunching at a friend’s house this past weekend I was reintroduced to the versatile and delicious Red Chard that they had grown right in their garden! They were nice enough to send me home with a few leaves – along with a [...]
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In my last CSA box, I received a brown bag full of adorable, little green peppers. Not sure what they were, I nibbled on a few. Most were very mild, but I did bite into one mean guy that had me reaching for a glass of cooling milk! It turns out that Padrón peppers are not [...]
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While roaming the Santa Monica Farmer’s Market the other day I stumbled across the pear lady. She said the time was now to enjoy her Asian pears, and boy was she right. Asian pears, usually grown in the San Joaquin Valley, are at their best in the late summer and early fall. They’re crunchy, sweet, [...]
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There’s nothing that screams summer more than biting into a ripe and juicy piece of melon and in this case, cantaloupe. For those of you that live in Colorado, you’re in luck because as the country’s fifth largest producer of cantaloupes, Colorado boasts some of the sweetest in the nation. Grown in Rocky Ford, about [...]
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The saying “cool as a cucumber” allegedly stems from the fact that the inside of these vegetables always remain cool – despite hot summer weather, in which they thrive. It’s seems true enough. What’s more refreshing than iced water flavored with a few cucumber slices or lying on the coach with two big rounds placed [...]
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