Summer Garden Salad with Tarragon Dressing
Every vegetable in this salad should be available fresh and local from mid to late summer. This salad would be tasty alongside fresh trout, striped bass or salmon or tuna or swordfish (choose the body...
View ArticleVegetable Stew Made Simply
Vegetable stew Here is an easy to make vegetable stew that you can cook up any time of the year. The combination of vegetables in this stew can vary with the season and harvest. Choose two or three...
View ArticleHow to Prepare Spring Peas with No Recipe
Garden peas are both sweet and savory. They have a grassy sweetness with an undertone of umami. Cooking fresh-shelled peas can be difficult: you will want to eat them fresh out of the pod before you...
View ArticleHow to Cook New Potatoes with No Recipe
New potatoes make for sweet, moist eating. You can serve them steamed, sautéed, boiled, baked, roasted, or grilled. They can be served tossed in butter or olive oil or as a dip with butter or sour...
View ArticleHow to Cook and Serve Asparagus with No Recipe
Cooked asparagus has a subtle sweet grassy flavor. It is a perfect match to salty dairy ingredients such as butter, Parmesan cheese, and hollandaise sauce. Asparagus also is well matched to slightly...
View ArticleShell Beans Serving Tips
Shell beans are any members of the legume family that are shucked or shelled. All beans grow in pods. Shell beans are cooked and served after they have been shelled. The pod is not eaten. Shell beans...
View ArticleHow to Freeze Ripe Tomatoes
Freeze tomatoes whole or cut. Freeze the bounty of tomatoes you don’t eat fresh this summer for use in cooking next winter. How to freeze a tomato Freeze tomatoes whole or cut them into wedges. Wash...
View ArticleWays to Serve Daikon
Daikon is a long white radish sweet-mild to peppery in flavor and juicy crisp. Daikon–which means “long root” in Japanese–is most commonly eaten raw or stir-fried. It is a staple in nearly all meals...
View ArticleHow to Sun-Dry and Oven-Dry Tomatoes
Sun-dry tomatoes or oven-dry tomatoes to use for seasoning in salads, soups, stews, casseroles, mixed vegetables, and snacks. You can also rehydrate dried tomatoes for use in cooking. Dried tomatoes...
View ArticleSliced Cabbage Salad Simply Made
Sliced cabbage salad Print Sliced Cabbage Salad Author Steve Albert Here’s an easy to make salad. All you need is thinly sliced green or red cabbage–or both. Instructions Toss the sliced cabbage...
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