Posts under ‘Fruit’

On Saturday night, I went to Contigo with a friend and learned, sadly, that they were sold out of that night’s padrón pepper menu item. On Sunday, I thought I’d remedied this when I located some red, luscious padróns at Happy Boy Farms’ stand at the Jack London Square Market. I brought them home, posted [...]

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Some days, I take a step back from my life and, well, give it all a big bwa ha ha. It’s not like good things weren’t happening all along the way, but the good things that happen in this still-relatively-new incarnation of my life involve such fabulosity I can barely stand it. One co-worker has [...]

Gardeners, plant and nature lovers can join in Green Thumb Sunday every week. Visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

I realize it’s high time to get back to garden blogging, but I’m going to go ahead and admit…my head and heart are still a little bit stuck in Black Rock City, where no plant of the garden variety can live, but where metal flowers bloom from the desert. I have a story to tell [...]

At my office, we spend an awful lot of time thinking about food systems and ways to get fresh fruits and vegetables in the hands of underserved communities. This is just one of the reasons I love my job—how many people get to go to work and do something that actually aligns with what they [...]

Tomatoes need cages or stakes. It is a fact of life, and it is what it is. They get tall, they get sprawly, and there’s nothing worse than coming out in the morning to the garden and discovering that a heavy, ripening tomato… (Sorry. I needed a moment there. And what I really need is [...]

Gardeners, plant and nature lovers can join in Green Thumb Sunday every week. Visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

My colds generally take a very standard progression: A runny nose leads to a sore throat and then to a cough that could take two to three weeks to completely disappear. Sometime in the early part of this century, I started throwing sinus infections into the mix, like the bad maraschino cherry in the Shirley [...]

If someone told me I was only allowed to make one category of cuisine for the rest of my life, I would tell them where to shove it. However, if I was really cornered on this issue, since violence is not the answer, I believe I would say, “OK, then. Tapas it is.” First of [...]