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Same Prep Method Does Not Fit All
Broccoli does best Skillet-Roasting. Cauliflower most tasty Oven-Roasting. Broccoli stays greener and more flavorful. Cauliflower attracts because of crunchy brown-ness.
Double Dipping—It’s OK with this one.
Definition: Double dipping means a vegetable appetizer dip made with a vegetable and dipped into with a vegetable. Splashy orange-colored dip, especially tasty with celery and pretzel squares. This one won the Dave's Gourmet national recipe contest.
Let There Be Peas on Earth
"Let There Be Peas On Earth" Sung to the tune of "Let There Be Peace on Earth" Let there be peas on Earth, And take away broccoli; Let there be peas on Earth For peas are what's meant to be. Peas are delicious, Round and firm and sweet; Broccoli looks like a forest,...
Taste by Laura Rowe
Most unusual food ingredients book by British author—fabulously accurate and entertaining.
Vegetable Therapy
Start 2017 with awareness—"in" vegetables are beets and sauerkraut. Think color and fermented veggies.
Recipe for Tomato Fennel soup
Convincing Tomato Fennel Soup Dinner was rushed one evening, so I was not in the kitchen when Roy served himself soup. Later, he commented on the delicious tomato soup. He now admits he is open to fennel recipes. Ingredients: 2 small fennel bulbs 2 tablespoons extra...
Drink your Watermelon!
A tall glass of watermelon juice can relieve muscle soreness thanks to the melon's high levels of L-citruline, an amino acid. Tampa Bay Times, May 28, 2015
Tomato Fennel Soup
'Tis the season for Tomato Fennel Soup—red, easy and delicious.
It’s a Beautiful Day!
Drop the screens and the nasty TV ads—gaze at the sky, clouds, and tonite the moon and stars.
Stem or Bloomin’ Broccoli vs. Broccoli Rabe
Stem or Blooming Broccoli is sweet and tender, fairly new in the grower repertoire as seeds are just being developed. Looks like Broccoli Rabe but oh so not bitter and still the lovely plate look. Pan roast in small amount of oil until just beginning to brown; hit...