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 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 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. [...]
By sally, on July 6th, 2010
Inspiration hit me last week and it was hard to ignore. This inspiration came from the farmers market and was in the form of a palm-sized pastry. This delicious savory pastry, or “empanada,” was stuffed with a fresh corn filling unlike any I had tried before. So taken was I by this empanada [...]
By sally, on June 21st, 2010
I had burrata cheese for the first time a few years ago at a restaurant in LA and let me tell you, I have not stopped singing its praises since. For those of you who may not be familiar with burrata, please allow me to introduce you to it — though [...]
