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Category: Ingredient Spotlight
Ingredient Of The Day: Brandywine Tomato
The Brandywine Tomato is an heirloom variety with red and yellow coloring. They have an acidic-sweet flavor and tender-juicy texture. Use for soups like Gazpacho or salads like Caprese Salad or salsa, sandwich, and sauce.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Numex Twilight Chile Pepper
The Numex Twilight Chile Pepper is a smallish purple and white heirloom variety of pepper. They have a medium spicy-fruity flavor and can be used in soup, stew, sauce, salsa, and Guacamole.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Hominy
Fresh Hominy, aka Nixtamal or Nixtamalado, is a process of curing corn. They have an earthy-nutty flavor and chewy-firm texture. Use for Pozole, soup, stew, and vegetable side dish.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Cocozelle
The Cocozelle is an heirloom variety of summer squash that is similar to Zucchini. They have an earthy-slightly sweet flavor and can be used in Risotto, salad, soup, and a vegetable side dish.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Lavender
Lavender is an herb with an aromatic-floral-pungent-slightly bitter flavor that can be used in desserts and savory dishes. Try the herb in marinade, vinaigrette, garnish, and Watermelon Feta Salad.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Loganberry
The Loganberry is a hybrid of Blackberry and Raspberry. The fruit is a summer berry with a tart-slightly sweet flavor and tender-juicy texture. Use for baked goods and desserts, jam and preserves, sauce, and chutney.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Charentais Melon
The Charentais Melon is a French variety of melon with an aromatic-floral-sweet flavor and juicy texture. Use for out-of-hand eating, a dessert soup, fruit dish, salad, and Prosciutto And Melon.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Red Zebra Tomato
The Red Zebra Tomato is an heirloom variety with an acidic-slightly sweet flavor and juicy-tender texture. Use for a Caprese Salad, sandwich, sauce, soup, and salsa.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Pink Variegated Eureka Lemon
The Pink Variegated Eureka Lemon, or Pink Lemonade Lemon, is a variety of lemon with pink and green stripes and pink flesh. They have an acidic-tangy-tart flavor and juicy texture and can be used for Aïoli, vinaigrette, marinade, and cocktails.…
Ingredient Of The Day: Salt And Pepper Cucumber
The Salt And Pepper Cucumber is yellow and the same size as a Kirby Cucumber. But unlike the Kirby Cucumber that is used for pickling, the Salt And Pepper Cucumber is used similar to the Lemon Cucumber for salad, sandwich, and crudités. These cucumbers are available in the summertime and they have a mild-earthy flavor and crisp-crunchy texture.…