Why is August called the lush harvest month? The answer is at the farmers’ market this week. Here is a list of the fresh fruits and vegetables I found at the farm market this past Tuesday at the farmers’ market in the Sonoma plaza. The bounty is likely to very similar where you live. First-of-season:
Blueberries on cereal. Blueberries with cream and sugar. Blueberries on vanilla ice cream. A handful of blueberries. Try this: Place fresh, chilled blueberries in a meringue shell and top with whipped cream. Blueberry season in the north stretches from early summer through late summer. (The season in the south is much shorter—late spring through early
Long beans Long beans can be eaten raw or cooked. Sliced long beans can be added raw to salads similar to French haricots verts. Long beans can be steamed or sautéed as a side dish. They can be added to soups and stews. Long beans have a chewy, crunchy texture–more so than snap beans–and a
There is curly endive and then there is frisée. They are the same, but they are not. The difference? Frisée—pronounced free-ZAY—is a petite, pale curly endive produced by blanching. It has an opened, flattened shape. Its leaves are frizzy and finely cut, yellow-white to yellow-apple green in color. Frisée has a bittersweet taste and it’s
Interested in a little deep thinking with that carrot? There is a broad and deep debate going on around the carrot (and all vegetables) on your table. This debate has spilled on to the front pages of newspapers around the country. In the good old days, just a year or two ago, you could go
The first official day of summer came the middle of last week, June 21. That means we are now enjoying the last of the cool-weather vegetables from spring and beginning to get a taste of some of this year’s warm-weather vegetables. Now is an in between time of the year when we can enjoy two
A great beet salad for summer: shred raw beets and toss with a vinaigrette and lots of chopped parsley. Flavor. The sweet flavor of a beet’s root is affected by the speed of the plant’s growth. Beets that are allowed to mature more slowly in cooler soil and weather will be sweeter than those that
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