One day I was innocently shopping at my local food co-op, looking for ingredients for a normal (i.e. non-Kitchen Adventure) dinner. I was browsing the produce section when this odd looking vegetable caught my eye. I literally did a double-take. Doesn’t it look like some sort of alien vegetable? I had my Ipod on me […] Read more…
Archive of ‘Kitchen Adventure’ category
Week 8: A Tropical Cake with an Asian Flare
This post is dedicated to Jess – happy 25th birthday! I hope you like the cake and that it made it all the way to Pittsburgh through the snow. Enjoy! I received an email earlier this week from my longtime friend Jess, who currently lives in Pittsburgh (because why not?). Prior to the City of […] 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…
Mini Limequat Meringue Cupcakes
I was recently introduced to Indo-mandarinquats by a coworker. Breed mandarin oranges and kumquats and their babies are delicious little bite-sized treats with edible skin. When I was trying to find them in the produce section, I came upon another kumquat hybrid: limequats! A cross between key limes and kumquats, they look like miniature lemons […] Read more…
Week 5: Middle East Meets Far East
I discovered Japanese pumpkin (aka kabocha squash) at an organic farm in Apple Hill this past fall. They average about 2-3 pounds and have green, knobby skin (the ones I’ve seen in stores are darker green than the one at left, which lived on my kitchen counter for about 4 months). According to Wikipedia, they […] Read more…