seasonal cooking

In Season: 4 Green Cabbage Recipes

hollis — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:16:34 +0000

Get your fill of vitamin C by loading up on green cabbage, a low-calorie (and low-cost) leafy green that’s in season during fall and winter months. Here, four Asian-inspired appetizer recipes that call for “Western” cabbage

In Season: Winter Squash Recipes

hollis — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:03:00 +0000

Easy winter squash recipes, perfect for the fall.

When the weather turns cold and tomatoes, leafy greens, eggplant, and bell peppers disappear from the food stands at your farmers’ market, rest assured that you’ll be able to snag several varieties of winter squash. Because of their hard shells, varieties such as acorn, butternut, spaghetti, kabocha, and delicata squash can be stored for several months before use, making them perfect go-to ingredients for soups and side dishes this fall.

In Season: 4 Juicy Tomato Recipes

tum — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:50:00 +0000

Tomatoes are so wonderfully versatile, and they are at their peak at farmers' markets and gardens right now.

It’s September, and the variety of in season fresh fruits and vegetables is still bountiful.

In Season: 5 Zesty Cucumber Recipes

tum — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:37:09 +0000

Cool, crispy cucumbers are at their peak season right now — find out how we love to cook with cucumber.

This time of year cucumbers are practically taking over farmers' markets and extremely cheap at the supermarket. Most of the time, those pretty cool, green cukes (which are actually fruits!) get tossed into a boring a salad. We rounded up some cucumber recipes, from simple dishes to ones that surprised us and challenged us to look at cucumbers in another way.

Recipe Wars: 4 Asian Salads

tess — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 23:05:57 +0000

How to survive in a heat wave? Move as little as possible. And above all ... don't turn the cooktop on!

Salads. *Yawn*. But that need not be the case, dear AsianSupperer!

Have you stopped to wonder why you think salads are boring? Could it be because you’re largely confining yourself to some sort of green leafy vegetable, then maybe mixing it up with some different vegetables & so on? Mmmm hmmm. Exactly. Salads do not equal lettuce! Salads are really anything cold and mixed up in my book ... after all, think potato salad, or pasta salad.

Stretch your imagination. And then stretch it some more, with these 4 unique Asian salads.