Category: Vegetables-Salads-Herbs

RECIPE: Colorful Spinach & Grapefruit Salad

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A terrific combination of flavors. Photocourtesy Melissas.com.   Before citrus gives way to summer fruits, here’s a quick, colorful spring salad from Andrew Faulkner for Melissas.com, purveyor of exotic and hard-to-find fruits and vegetables. Sweet-tart grapefruit, tasty fennel, and tangy olive flavors come together with super healthy spinach leaves and grapefruit segments.   RECIPE: SPINACH…
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COOKING VIDEO: Wild Ramps, A Great Spring Vegetable

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  May is the month for delicious ramps. Their season is fleeting: late April to early June. They are worth seeking out. Ramps (Allium tricoccum) are wild leeks—also known as spring onion, ramson and wild garlic. In French, they are called ail sauvage, wild garlic, and ail des bois, garlic of the woods, because of…
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GOURMET GIFT: Fresh-Picked Avocados & Avocado Recipes

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A fresh-picked, healthy gift.   Last month we wrote about California Avocados Direct, a business started by a fourth-generation California farm family. The plump Hass avocados are fresh-picked to order and shipped that day, along with a note from the farmer about when they’ll be at peak ripeness (in about 10 days, so there’s plenty…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Fried Plantains Instead Of French Fries

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If you’ve never cooked with plantains before, today—Cinco de Mayo—is the day to try it—ideally, our favorite, fried plantains (photos #1 and #2). You may have enjoyed a bag of plantain chips—we love them. But a batch of hot fried plantains is its own delicious experience. While yellow-brown, brown and black plantains can be peeled…
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TRENDS: Vegetable Gardening

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Grow your own! Photo by Chrissi Nerantzi |SXC.   How does your garden grow? In a survey conducted by Garden-Share.com, vegetable gardening is the most popular gardening trend (20.6%), followed by small-space gardening (17.1%) and organic gardening (16.3%). To tie these all together, you can grow your own organic tomatoes or other veggies in a…
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