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Pea tendrils are the tender vines, stems, and leaves of young pea plants. They can be eaten raw or lightly cooked. Try adding them to all kinds of salads and sandwiches. They are delicious lightly sautéed and served on crostini, or with pasta, rice, eggs, potatoes, etc. Pea tendrils are best used when fresh but [...]
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Wash the artichoke in cool water, trim the end of the stem and the top 1/4 of the artichoke and discard. (Note: the stem is an extension of the heart and is edible!) Optional: Use scissors to trim the remaining thorny tips off each artichoke petal. You can also rub the artichoke’s surface with lemon [...]
Everything you always wanted to know about stone fruit (but were afraid to ask) Stone fruit season is coming. Here’s a primer on some of our favorites. Stone fruit that is woven into the pit is called “cling.” Fruit that has less fiber woven into the pit is called “semi-cling.” And fruit that is free [...]
Basmati means “the fragrant one” in Sanskrit, and for sure – it is. Also identifiable by its long grains. Rinse and soak rice for 15 minutes before cooking. Cook methods vary, but generally basmati is 2.25 cup water to 1 cup rice.
Cubing the mango: Stand the mango up on a cutting board stem-side-down, and hold in place. Place your knife about 1/4-inch wide of the centerline and cut down all the way through the mango (you’re trying to miss the pit). Repeat on the other side. The resulting ovals of mango are called “cheeks.” Score the [...]
Summer squash are soft skinned with small seeds. In fact zukes and their compatriots crookneck and pattypan are really immature versions of winter squash. Sliced, diced, half-moons cooked or raw, summer squash is the easy one.
Fresh dill is sometimes called “dill weed” to distinguish it from “dill seed.” It is most often associated with dill pickles but has dozens of delicious culinary uses.
By Heidi Lewis An old children’s classic, The Story of the Root-Children, tells of how, in spring, Mother Earth awakens the sleepy little root babies that live underground and sets them to sew new clothes and clean and paint the beetles and bugs. They emerge from their underground home dressed in new rainbow capes and [...]
Gold Nuggets are sweet and seedless little mandarin oranges, cousin to the Satsuma, recently bred at the University of California Riverside in the foothills of the Box Springs Mountains. This Citrus School also brought us the Navel orange. There’s gold in them thar hills!
Ginger is a powerful tuber that can be used as a medicine or zesty spice. There is a Chinese saying: “the older the ginger, the more it bites”. Peel the thin skin with the tip of a teaspoon.
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