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Kumquats are the size of large olives. Photo courtesy White Flower Farm. How can it be that we’ve never published a piece about the kumquat? Today’s tip remedies that oversight. Native to China and now grown throughout Southeast Asia (plus the U.S. and elsewhere), the kumquat is a tiny citrus fruit that is entirely…
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[1] Make this delicious Asian Noodle Bowl for lunch or dinner (photo © Lightlife). You may have read last week that the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee released its 2015 report. The Committee urges Americans to eat less processed meat and turn to plant-based diets for a healthier, more sustainable lifestyle. Remember Meatless Mondays? If…
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The Ugli fruit has inner beauty, and snappy citrus flavor. Photo courtesy Uglifruit.org. Our recent daily tips have included vegetables to cure the winter doldrums. That goes for fruits, too. Take the Uniq fruit, wrinkled and rough with splotchy coloring and surface scarring. Its skin is wrapped very loosely over the pulp. It’s the…
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Caponata is a Sicilian eggplant relish or eggplant salad, made from capers, eggplant, onion, pine nuts and tomatoes, usually served as a side dish or relish, part of an antipasto. In Sicily it’s called capunata. As with any recipe, there are numerous variations, including the addition of carrots, celery, green bell peppers, olives, potatoes, or…
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Each year, we notice a hot new food trend. Often it’s a new flavor, blasting through everything from salad dressing to popcorn. Notable past flavor explosions like chipotle, jalapeño, and wasabi introduced new kinds of heat to the American palate. The current “it” flavor seems to be sriracha. WHAT IS SRIRACHA? Sriracha, pronounced…
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