By sally, on September 6th, 2010
Eggplant—such a funny name for a vegetable! For me, there is nothing eggy about it. I suppose I have seen some small white eggplants that are egg-like in shape and indeed that’s where the name came from (the first eggplants Europeans encountered in the 1700s looked like goose eggs), but certainly it did not [...]
By sally, on August 29th, 2010
A few weekends ago Graham and I escaped the weird wintry cold of the Berkeley summer and went to check out the farm where our CSA box comes from. For several months we had been getting notices in our vegetable box about Saturday farm tours and decided the time was right to go [...]
By sally, on August 22nd, 2010
I’ve heard it said before that eating pimientos de padrón (or padrón peppers) is like playing a game of Russian roulette—you never know how spicy a pepper is going to be until you take a bite. Yep, some of these little guys are spicy and some are not. In my experience most of [...]
By sally, on August 15th, 2010
Let’s talk about herbs—fresh herbs. I have mixed feelings when it comes to fresh herbs. On the one hand, I love them—they can add zest and zip to all sorts of dishes. On the other hand they kind of scare me. Sometimes I feel unsure about the quantity of [...]
By sally, on August 8th, 2010
We’ve got zucchini coming out of our ears! Well maybe it’s not that bad, but lately we have had a steady stream of zucchini coming in our CSA box. It started with just one or two small zucchini in the box and now we are getting five or six large ones. [...]
