Tag: vegetables

Tender Crisp Carrots

Tender Crisp Carrots

It’s salad season! Red leaf lettuce, arugula, romaine, spinach – I have a crisper drawer full of leafy greens, and we feast on them! But – around here, we do not yet have most of the other vegetables we generally put in salads. No peppers, 

WIAW 119

WIAW 119

Strawberries!!! Er, um, was that my outside voice? All right, many of you have been eating strawberries for months. Indeed, our supermarket had large red blobs with white centers (like radishes? but sort of pointy and mushy) they call strawberries… and this year I even 

Broccoli Rabe Sauté

Broccoli Rabe Sauté

When I shopped at Greenmarket last week, I did not limit myself to fiddleheads, even if they were my most exciting purchase. The market brimmed over with spring greens! Spinach, of course – sauteed with eggs for lunch the other day. Meltingly tender Swiss chard. 

Fiddlehead Ferns

Fiddlehead Ferns

Looking at older posts, I notice that I’ve spend much of the last few months saying, again and again, “But in the Northeast, we don’t…”  Here in the Northeast, nothing grows in February. Our Fall harvest is plentiful, but then abruptly over. We only get 

Zucchini Fans and Knife Skills

Zucchini Fans and Knife Skills

Somehow that title sounds as if it should be the name of a really bad pseudo-Asian martial arts movie… Anyhow – the inspiration. A short while ago, Inhabited Kitchen had a sudden, unexpected surge of visitors from Buzzfeed. I was somewhat flattered to discover that