Posts under ‘Vegetables’

One of the most gratifying things about putting out the word that a patio garden is in the offing has been the offer of seeds from friends near and a little bit far. Seed shopping? Nope. Don’t need to.
One of the offers came from a coworker, who told me she had a variety of heirloom [...]

Over the weekend, I went in a giant grocery store in Madison, Wisconsin with my friends in search of some local cheese curds. We found what we were looking for, but since it has been so long since I regularly shopped at that kind of store, the aisles and aisles of brightly-colored boxes of processed [...]

The best thing about January? Opening up a brand new calendar. And, while I usually come up with a calendar that features my photography, I stumbled across a resource late last week that I have to share.
The Cottage Industrialist’s monthly calendar highlights seasonal produce and recipe ideas to put those seasonal fruits and vegetables to [...]

I bought sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving, but in the crush of food that me and my fantastic guests made and brought, they became superfluous, which means I’m now managing a sweet potato surplus. Earlier this week, I started dispatching them using a great recipe for Soy-Glazed Sweet Potatoes with Sesame Seeds I found on my [...]

“You look awfully chipper today,” said one of my coworkers the morning after my lip-blistering experience with the padrón peppers.
“I’m not sure why,” I said. “I’m just rarin’ to go!”
She suggested perhaps it had been the peppers, which launched me into a further discourse about their fiery power.
And then I admitted the even riskier side [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

When I was a little kid, my Grammy used to cook up beet greens studded with tiny baby beets, a dish that I both dreaded and adored. Finding the little beets were like going on a treasure hunt, but I always found the greens too bitter for my taste.
That has all changed as an adult. [...]

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

When I was up in Seattle during mid-March, my cousin Mary and I wandered into The Spanish Table, a store that, it turns out, has outposts much more local to me—Berkeley and Mill Valley.
But we were in the original, surrounded by pottery and paella pans and food that made me feel like we had walked [...]