Pesto is a tasty, versatile way to highlight the spring’s bounty of fresh herbs. Here’s my very favorite pesto recipe.
Tag: seasonal recipes
Coleslaw Recipes for Winter
Coleslaw doesn’t have to be limited to summer barbecues. In fact, you can make delicious and exotic slaws from all sorts of late-fall, storage-friendly produce. Here’s how.
Find Out What Fruits and Vegetables Are in Season in Your Area Now
Check out this map at Epicurious.com to determine what produce is fresh in your area in a given month, as well as shopping guides, recipes, and tips.
How to Make Vegetable Soup Your Kids Will Love
Fresh back from a fantastic Labor day vacation, I was again reminded why it’s so important for home gardeners to have good fall fallback recipes to rely on. Onions, peppers and tomatoes, three of the most common vegetables grown by home vegetable gardeners, are plentiful in the Fall, and this recipe calls for all of them!
Green Diva’s Guide to Delicious Living: A Brief Encounter with Figs
A dear friend, who not only creates and prepares some of the most delicious meals on the planet, but also writes exquisitely about it, wrote an enticing and slightly sexy piece about figs. I was inspired. Although when it comes to figs, I’m easy.
What’s your favorite peach recipe?
In the summer, there’s nothing quite as perfect as a ripe peach eaten straight out of hand. But I find them so irresistible at farmers markets and at pick-your-own farms [ … ]
Top Ten Eggplant Recipes (in season now!)
Eggplant has got to be one of my all time favorite foods. So I was pretty excited when we started harvesting Japanese eggplant at the farm a few weeks ago. Do you need some eggplant recipes, now that this veggie is in season? We’ve got you covered!
Frisée: The Forgotten Salad (in season now!)
Many people are a bit scared of frisée. They worry that it will be too frizzy, too bitter, and too overwhelming to use as a salad green. This fear might [ … ]
Hunting for Wild Chicken of the Woods Mushrooms
Chicken of the Woods is another great wild mushroom species for beginning foragers. It’s relatively easy to identify, and has only a few look-alikes.
Hunting for Wild Oyster Mushrooms
Although this spring was a disappointing one for morels in my area, the past week’s mushroom haul has more than made up for it. One of the tastiest mushrooms in [ … ]
Figs and a Fig and Cream Cheese Dip Recipe
Figs are a delicious, nutritious fruit. A half-cup of fresh figs has about 80 calories and contains some of just about every vitamin and mineral the human body needs.
Linguica, Sweet Potato, and Spinach Chowder
My CSA box this week contained sweet potatoes…lots of sweet potatoes. The ugliest sweet potatoes you’ve ever seen. This is what a sweet potato looks like when it’s been damaged [ … ]
In Season: Mid-to-Late Spring Cole Crops
Broccoli and cauliflower are the same plant. The different varieties are called cultivars. The plants have been selectively cultivated to enhance certain characteristics not unlike breeds of dogs, for example. [ … ]