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You love it on pizza, lasagna, panini, and in a Caprese salad. But there‘s more you can do with mozzarella. For example, Crave Brothers, Wisconsin-based producers of award-winning cheeses, say that mozzarella and fresh vegetables were made for each other. Think beyond the eight-ounce or one-pound balls of mozzarella to other sizes: Perlini (per-LEE-nee), tiny…
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A peeled lychee. Photo courtesy Baldor Food. Lychee is a a tropical evergreen fruit tree native to southern China. The evergreen grows wild in southern China, northern Vietnam and Cambodia, although there is evidence that it has been cultivated since around 2000 B.C.E. Today it grows throughout southeast Asia, notably in southern Japan, India,…
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What to look for in farmers’ markets and specialty produce stores: striped tiger figs. Or, buy them from Melissas.com. The Tiger Fig (also called Tiger Stripe fig and Candy Stripe fig) is prized as one of the most flavorful varieties in the marketplace. It is a light yellow, small to medium, pear-shaped fig with unique…
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