12 Nov, 2009
Wok stir-fried broccoli with oyster sauce has to be one of my all-time favorite vegetable dishes. I could eat this once a week! If I have been particularly bad and consumed a phenomenal amount of fat-laden dishes in a given period, I try to detox with a lot of veggies, and this…
08 Nov, 2009
You need to be a bitter green fan to enjoy this dish. Or at least enjoy strongly flavored greens. We served this braised gai choy with some leftover lechon, presumably to help temper the evils of cholesterol overload, and it worked flavorwise. But I can see how this would also…
07 Nov, 2009
I have always thought of these as “Chinese” mustard greens, but it seems it is popular in several parts of the world and figures as an ingredient several different cuisines around the world. The leaves and seeds are both edible with the latter being made into mustard oil or just used as a…
03 Oct, 2009
Hmmm, I am not too sure what I think about what must be a whole lot of gene-splicing, or carrot intermarrying, not to mention cross-specie fooling around necessary to get this array of carrot colors, but I LIKE them. I can see a stunning salad of carrots sliced thinly lengthwise on a mandoline….
02 Oct, 2009
Because they look like eggs. Hence, eggplant. :) For 30 years or so, I only knew of purple eggplants, and only one or two varieties of purple at that. Having taken but never learned much of the French language, I always thought “aubergine” was a really nice name for them, and the…
02 Oct, 2009
The selection of heirloom or other unusual varieties of tomatoes at the Union Square Market in mid-September was just utterly amazing. This pre-occupation with growing such a wide variety or selection of tomatoes is something that seems to have taken hold only in the last 10 years or so. I read with…
01 Oct, 2009
Some unusually bright green and uniquely bumpy “Japanese Bitter Gourds” were in the vegetable section of the grocery last week, and I purchased two of them to try. Always on the lookout for the novel or unusual, I am so happy that the Dole company keeps trying to innovate and grow new produce items,…
30 Sep, 2009
More vibrant color, more appetizing produce from a recent visit to the Union Square Market in New York. Above, a cheerful abundance of cosmos…