vegetables

Take a mid-week garden break and get ready for spring. The Sacramento County master gardeners will host an Open Garden Day from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Fair Oaks Horticulture Center in Fair Oaks Park, 11549 Fair Oaks Blvd., Fair Oaks. Whil...

If you look around my kitchen, you'll see that I own a lot of OXO kitchen tools. I find that they're comfortable to use and are of good quality. So when the nice folks at OXO offered to send me two hand-held Good Grips mandolines (one to try out a...

I have to tell you the truth Readers, there just isn’t a potato salad that even matches up to this one–not even close.  Now listen, I’ve had some decent potato salads at delis and at restaurants, and some serviceable salads elsewhere—but I always think to myself, “Gee, that wasn’t as good as Nana’s”.  You...

This is another of those "not really a recipe just more of an idea" posts.I saw the idea for this in a magazine - but of course do not remember which one. What I do know is that I've been craving poached eggs ever since.Weird craving...I know.The mixtu...

Photo courtesy FEMAWASHINGTON (DP) First Lady Michelle Obama announced today that she had requested genetically modified corn seed from Monsanto to plant in the White House vegetable garden. Up until now the vegetable garden has been all organ...

Lately I've been fascinated with ravioli. Not the meat-stuffed Chef Boyardee kind but rather homemade ravioli stuffed with veggies. I've been picking up fresh wonton wrappers at the Mei Mei Noodle Factory (the #7 dumpling wrapper) and ma...

Growing up we never ate beets in our household, it was just one of those vegetables that my mom never cooked for dinner. Daikon, natto, gobo root- sure...beets? Nope. So, my first encounter with beets didn't come until I was well into college and unfor...

Wow, I made this more than a month ago so let’s see if I can even remember how it goes.  Luckily this was one of Nana’s recipes that I didn’t feel the need to do any tweaks to–it was just perfect as is. Above is a photo of the entire Smith clan, along with...

I'm always surprised when I'm shopping at the farmers' market and the vendors ask me if I want the tops to my beets, why wouldn't I? They're delicious! Turns out a lot of folks have them lopped off right there at the stand and have the vendor chuck the...

So, recently I bought a pound of fresh stir fry noodles on my excursion to the Mei Mei Noodle Factory. I couldn't wait to cook them up in some sort of tasty noodle creation. After some hemming and hawing, I decided to take one of my favorite recipes fr...