Last week while visiting the Central Coast of California, we came across this avocado farm on the north side of Highway 41, just outside of Morro Bay.
Last week while visiting the Central Coast of California, we came across this avocado farm on the north side of Highway 41, just outside of Morro Bay.
Persian Green Plums are early-ripening plums grown in the mountains of Iran and are often eaten sour.
Starting yesterday, Slow Food Nation has begun stripping up the sod in front of San Francisco's City Hall in preparation of planting a large victory garden. With food prices rising and arable land shrinking, cities worldwide are encouraging urban gardening.
What a neat idea. Supercook is a recipe search engine that allows you to enter ingredients that you have at home and finds recipes for you that contain the ingredients you have, so you don't have to go out and shop for new items.
English peas, which popped up in the farmer's markets in May, are on their way out of season, so we've been buying them up before they're gone.
Yesterday we hopped to the Crocker Galleria Farmer's Market to pick up a bag of edible flower salad greens from Happy Boy Farms, and snapped these lovely pictures. Enjoy!
Recently we bought a package of dried fava beans and made this delicious recipe that goes back thousands of years in Egypt.
We've been seeing a lot of purslane popping up recently at the Farmer's Markets. But what exactly is it?
Many cocktail recipes for the spring and summer call for the addition of simple syrup. Even better is when the recipe calls for a flavored simple syrup, such as rosemary.
A lot of people think this is an unripe green tomato, but it isn't. It certainly looks like a tomato, but it's covered with a paper husk on the outside. What is it?
Simmer sauces are an easy and healthy way to make a quick, delicious meal for your family. It's simple - add your choice of vegetables, tofu, meat, chicken, or seafood to a pan, add a jar of simmer sauce, cover, and cook over low heat. While that's cooking you can prepare a salad, fold the laundry, or catch up on your email.
At the Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market last week, we saw tomatoes.
At the Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market last week, we saw blueberries for the first time this season in San Francisco.
We came across this recipe for Asparagus Linguine with mint pesto on No Recipes and noticed the cutting tool used to cut the asparagus into julienne strips. It's a Japanese kitchen tool called a negi cutter. More about this little tool below the jump. Look and then tell us what you think...