A couple of weeks ago I heard from a long-lost friend via Facebook. I’ve known Jessica since preschool but haven’t seen her since she moved away in junior high. She’s now living in Mexico and can’t find a lot of the ingredients I use here, but Mexico has many of its own unusual foods. I […] Read more…
Archive of ‘Vegetarian’ category
Week 9: The Weirdest Looking Veggie I've Ever Seen
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…
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…
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…
Week 4: The Mother of All Grains
Quinoa can be intimidating – it doesn’t even have an obvious pronunciation. Pronounced KEEN-wa, it is an ancient food that originated in South America. The Incas called quinoa “the mother of all grains,” but it’s actually seeds from a plant that is related to beets, spinach and chard. The seeds are however treated like rice […] Read more…