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Category: Ingredient Spotlight
Ingredient Of The Day: Malanga Root
The Malanga Root is a root vegetable with a white and pink interior and can range in size from a golf ball to larger than a baseball. The rough skin needs to be peeled to reveal the flesh that has an earthy-nutty-slightly sweet flavor and starchy texture. They need to be cooked and are used …
Ingredient Of The Day: Bloomsdale Spinach
Bloomsdale Spinach is a dense specialty variety of spinach and can be used cooked or raw as a salad green or braising green. The greens have a grassy-sweet-vegetal flavor and crisp-crunchy texture and are used in Risotto, soup, salad, and vegetable side dishes.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Early Girl Tomato
The Early Girl Tomato, aka Dry Farmed Tomato, is a variety of tomato that shows up towards the end of summer. They have an acidic-sweet flavor and juicy-firm texture and can be used cooked and raw for salad, salsa, sandwich, soup, stew, and sauce.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Fresh Dragon Tongue Bean
The Fresh Dragon Tongue Bean is similar to Green Bean but with yellow and purple coloring that fades away with cooking. They have a grassy-vegetal flavor and crunchy-tender texture and can be used for salad, stir-fry, and a vegetable side dish.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Bronx Grapes
The Bronx Grapes are a specialty seedless variety of grape available in late summer and early autumn. They are pale green to light brown in color with a fruity-sweet-astringent flavor and tender-juicy texture. Use in fruit dishes, garnish, and salad.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Fresh Black Eyed Pea
The Fresh Black Eyed Pea is a fresh shelling bean that requires less cooking than the Dried Black Eyed Pea. The fresh variety has an earthy-mild-nutty flavor and creamy-firm texture and is used for Hoppin’ John, salad, soup, stew, and vegetable side dishes.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Baby Leek
The Baby Leek, aka Tara, Tareh, and Tarreh, is more like an herb and similar to the Chive. They have an earthy-grassy-musty-vegetal-slightly sweet flavor and crunchy-tender texture and are best used for a garnish.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Crenshaw Melon
The Crenshaw Melon has a very aromatic-floral-sweet flavor and juicy texture. Use in a fruit salad, dessert soup, fruit dish, and Prosciutto And Melon.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Bordeaux Spinach
Bordeaux Spinach can be used raw as a salad green or cooked as a braising green. The greens have a grassy-slightly sweet flavor and crisp-tender texture and can be used for Pesto Sauce, soup, salad, and a vegetable side dish.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Red Huckleberry
The Red Huckleberry is a small summer berry with an astringent-tart-slightly sweet flavor. They can be used raw or cooked in baked goods, desserts, jams, and preserves. Also, try using them for crisp, crumble, cobbler, buckle, galette, and pies.…