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Posts tagged “Spring”

Seasonal Spotlight: Persian Green Plums

Persian Green Plums are early-ripening plums grown in the mountains of Iran and are often eaten sour....

From The Email: Two Fresh Dishes for Spring

A version of this post was originally sent to our email subscribers on May 8th. To sign up for our weekly email sign up in the column to the left or click here. If you're trying to eat as much from a...

Summer Vegetable Faceoff: Peas or Asparagus?

Here's a little Thursday fun. What do you prefer - peas or asparagus? Yes, yes - we know that we don't have to choose between them. They are gloriously in season right now, abundant in the farms and m...

Seasonal Spotlight: Cooking With Lavender

Yesterday we realized that we had given you three whole recipes with lavender recently, and that this reflects our current inclination to throw lavender into dessert left and right. This craze for lav...

Top 5: Uses for Arugula Besides Salad

In our CSA pick-up this week, we got plenty of greens — specifically, arugula. And while we love arugula salads (especially salads with fruit), we need other uses for the big bag that's sitting in o...

Goin' Fishin' This Weekend? Striped Bass Running in New England

Any fishermen or women in our midst? One of our table-mates at the New England Aquarium dinner mentioned that it's prime striped bass season in New England. He'll be out fishing most weekends until t...

Seasonal Spotlight: Edible Flowers

At the farmer's markets in San Francisco right now, we're seeing a lot of the salad vendors selling edible flowers mixed in the salad bags. Edible flowers are not only colorful and pretty to look at,...

Look! Radishes Creeping Up and Up and...

Look! We had a big rain the last couple of days and the plants in our container garden have gone wild. Garden Month may be over, but we're going to track with our little seedlings all summer and show ...

Recipe: Asparagus Spread and Prosciutto on Buttered Toast

This recipe came about as a result of asparagus fatigue. We love asparagus, and local ones are everywhere right now, but there are only so many things to do with them — roast, blanch, chop up into...

NYC Market Find: Japanese Turnips

Shopping at the Union Square Greenmarket today, we saw these itty bitty white Japanese turnips nestled next to the French breakfast radishes......

Quick and Easy: Lentils with Fresh Spring Herbs

We are loving lentils this spring. They make such a perfect foil for fresh greens and herbs from the garden - plus they're not too heavy. Here we're cooking mixed lentils with green garlic and scallio...

Eating From the Garden: Meyer Lemon Spring Salad with Baby Greens, Herbs, Almonds and Goat Cheese

First salad from the garden! We snipped arugula, baby spinach, chive blossoms, and herbs from our garden and tossed up this salad last night. It's exciting to be eating out of our tiny garden at last....

Recipe Review: Gluten-Free Strawberry-Rhubarb Crisp

We flagged this recipe from the Boston Globe a few weeks ago when the weather up here was still gloomy and cold. But now that temperatures in the 60's (the 60's!!!) and farmer's markets are opening, ...

Spring Eating: Two Fabulous Pea Recipes

We are so enamored of these two pea recipes - we can hardly wait to try one or the other with fresh, sweet, tender spring peas. ...

Fast and Easy Sweets: 9 Best Quick Desserts for Spring

A couple weeks ago we asked for your best fast desserts. It's spring, which means that we're starting to cook out of the garden and we're less inclined to spend long evenings in the kitchen. But we do...

Recipe: Roasted Chicken Breasts Stuffed with Goat Cheese and Fresh Garlic

This recipe is a classic example of us cooking by feel. We had some goat cheese leftover from an appetizer (which we wrote about last week) and found fresh, green garlic at the farmer's market. So we ...

This Time Last Year: Strawberries, Muscadet, Spanish-Fried Eggs, and the Mozzacado

We're always trying to move with the seasons here, and sometimes it's helpful to look back at what we were talking about at this precise time a year ago. Here's a look at some of the May food on the b...

Recipe: Lemon Verbena and Orange Blossom Fizz

Fizzy, cold and herbal - that's what we want out of our drinks this time of year. We're trying to break out of our gin and tonic rut, and for our spread of Memorial Day cocktails (all summer cocktails...

Recipe: Lemon Verbena Simple Syrup

Lemon verbena is one of our favorite herbs. It's a tall, spare, long-leafed plant with slender leaves and a fragrance to die for. It's not hard to capture that fragrance in a simple syrup. ...

Memorial Day Cooking Survey: Indoors or Outdoors?

Memorial Day is the traditional start of picnic season, which often feels like a cruel joke in Ohio and New York; more often than not it's drizzly and cold. We're curious - what are your Memorial Day ...

Recipe: Rhubarb Basil Cocktail

Earlier in the week, we posted some ideas for using basil in cocktails, promising to try our own interpretations over the weekend. Well, we did some experimenting, and while our first inclination wa...

Straight Up: Using Shiso in Cocktails (Mojitos and More)

I’ve always loved shiso’s distinctive peppery-bright flavor. While the softly furred, frill-edged leaves have the texture, piquancy, and slight sweetness of fresh mint, their complex flavor also b...

Cherry Desserts from Bon Appétit

Kathryn found newly in-season cherries at a California farmer's market, and now we're way too hungry for plump, juicy cherries. Raw, half-cooked in a pie, or stewed in a sauce - we'll take them any wa...

For the Spring Kitchen: Eat Your Greens

Eat your greens! As if we needed any reminder this time of year. Our arugula is throwing out leaves left and right, and all we want to do is go and nibble it like a rabbit. There are delicate chives g...

Spring and Summer Drinks: Cocktails with Basil

Basil really does scream summer to us — mostly because it's so closely linked to tomatoes (in our minds, at least). On a trip to Sonoma Valley last year, we kept seeing basil on cocktail menus. An...