At my local farmer’s market, there is stand dedicated to Asian produce. I’ve found some interesting vegetables there, and the other week I saw what looked like ginormous white carrots (reminiscent of Bunnicula, the vampire rabbit who sucks the juice out of vegetables). It turned out to be daikon. Daikon literally means “large root” in […] Read more…
Archive of ‘Entree’ category
Week 12: Tiny Poached Quail Eggs
I found myself near a Whole Foods recently (there are none where I live) and popped in to see if they had anything unusual. Lo and behold, in the bulk egg section (which was across the store from the packaged eggs) I found quail eggs! I have been searching for these, as my local supermarkets […] Read more…
Week 7: Creamy Winter Vegetable Soup
When my coworker told me to write about sunchokes (sidenote: I love when people have ingredient suggestions! If you have one, please leave a comment here or email me!), I didn’t really know what a sunchoke was. That’s the beauty of this blog: I learn, I write, you learn, and we all expand our horizons. […] Read more…
Week 4: The Mother of All Grains
Quinoa can be intimidating – it doesn’t even have an obvious pronunciation. Pronounced KEEN-wa, it is an ancient food that originated in South America. The Incas called quinoa “the mother of all grains,” but it’s actually seeds from a plant that is related to beets, spinach and chard. The seeds are however treated like rice […] Read more…
Week 3: The Other Dark Meat
Have you ever eaten bison (aka buffalo)? I never had before my partner introduced it to me. I resisted for a long time, particularly because I was eating vegetarian at the time, but eventually succumbed to this delicious recipe. Yes, these enchiladas are so good that they brought me back from being vegetarian. Incidentally, bison […] Read more…