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.
Food, Music and Art
Let’s Clone Ron Finley
Carrots, chard, pomegranate saplings, banana trees—all in his front LA yard between the street and the sidewalk. Trouble from city was soon overturned. He has created more than 25 fruit and vegetable plots in LA. Ted talk on reclaiming abandoned lots with vegetable...
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.
Winn-Dixie, Miami
Amazing the different products you find shopping while on vacation. Label says great in salads, smoothies, as topping and in salsas.
Special Birthday Restaurant from my Bucket List
Frontera Grill, Chicago Quite the birthday!
Venice, Florida
Venice is a small town, with great shopping, including free accessible parking, many restaurants with in/outdoor seating, and an authentic French bakery. You gotta love the Alligator-shaped Baguette from Croissant & Co.
Vegetable Therapy
Start 2017 with awareness—"in" vegetables are beets and sauerkraut. Think color and fermented veggies.