Fresh Fava Beans
It shouldn’t be too late to enjoy fresh fava beans while they’re still in season… I have a shameful confession. Before this featured batch of beautiful fresh fava beans, I had never tasted fava beans,...
View ArticleFresh Fava Beans, Tomatoes & Mint Bruschetta
As a small plate, appetizer, side dish or a quick snack, this bruschetta is bright, colorful and packs a tasty punch with fresh spring fava beans, cherry or grape tomatoes, some sprigs of mint and...
View ArticleSweet & In Season – Apriums
At first glance, these beauties look like apricots. Take one more look. These seasonal treats are a blissful marriage of an apricot + plum resulting in a sweet, unblemished, tasty fruit treat… These...
View ArticleGreek Pasta Salad with Rotini and Feta
A spin on a classic dish with all the perfectly paired flavors that make up a Greek salad. Hands-on time is minimal with tasty returns on this fresh and easy chilled pasta dish that can be served as a...
View ArticleSugared Kumquats – it’s that time of year!
It’s that time of year when edible gardening benefits of loved citrus trees are at the height of their enjoyment. For Southern California gardens, that means Meyer Lemons, Blood Oranges, Kishu...
View ArticleMy Purple Passion – The Passion Fruit (passiflora)
Exotic and unusual. Like something extraterrestrial, it’s the passiflora or passion fruit and its passion flower – my purple passion. Passion Fruit Flower – passiflora I almost can’t even breathe....
View ArticleFresh Fava Beans, Tomatoes & Mint Bruschetta
As a small plate, appetizer, side dish or a quick snack, this bruschetta is bright, colorful and packs a tasty punch with fresh spring fava beans, cherry or grape tomatoes, some sprigs of mint and...
View ArticleSweet & In Season – Apriums
At first glance, these beauties look like apricots. Take one more look. These seasonal treats are a blissful marriage of an apricot + plum resulting in a sweet, unblemished, tasty fruit treat… These...
View ArticleGreek Pasta Salad with Rotini and Feta
A spin on a classic dish with all the perfectly paired flavors that make up a Greek salad. Hands-on time is minimal with tasty returns on this fresh and easy chilled pasta dish that can be served as a...
View ArticleSugared Kumquats – it’s that time of year!
It’s that time of year when edible gardening benefits of loved citrus trees are at the height of their enjoyment. For Southern California gardens, that means Meyer Lemons, Blood Oranges, Kishu...
View ArticleMy Purple Passion – The Passion Fruit (passiflora)
Exotic and unusual. Like something extraterrestrial, it’s the passiflora or passion fruit and its passion flower – my purple passion. Passion Fruit Flower – passiflora I almost can’t even breathe....
View ArticleFresh Fava Beans, Tomatoes & Mint Bruschetta
As a small plate, appetizer, side dish or a quick snack, this bruschetta is bright, colorful and packs a tasty punch with fresh spring fava beans, cherry or grape tomatoes, some sprigs of mint and...
View ArticleSweet & In Season – Apriums
At first glance, these beauties look like apricots. Take one more look. These seasonal treats are a blissful marriage of an apricot + plum resulting in a sweet, unblemished, tasty fruit treat… These...
View ArticleGreek Pasta Salad with Rotini and Feta
A spin on a classic dish with all the perfectly paired flavors that make up a Greek salad. Hands-on time is minimal with tasty returns on this fresh and easy chilled pasta dish that can be served as a...
View ArticleSugared Kumquats – it’s that time of year!
It’s that time of year when edible gardening benefits of loved citrus trees are at the height of their enjoyment. For Southern California gardens, that means Meyer Lemons, Blood Oranges, Kishu...
View ArticleMy Purple Passion – The Passion Fruit (passiflora)
Exotic and unusual. Like something extraterrestrial, it’s the passiflora or passion fruit and its passion flower – my purple passion. Passion Fruit Flower – passiflora I almost can’t even breathe....
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