A Bag of Happy Quail Farms’ Pimientos de Padron Peppers
These little peppers may look sweet, but eat the wrong one, and you might be grasping for a glass of beer or a chunk of bread, your mouth on fire. Allegedly, one in ten of these peppers a tongue-scorcher. Chez Pim calls eating a mess of Pimientos de Padron “Culinary Russian Roulette”.
I’ve had these before, and my taste memory of them didn’t include searing pain and vigorous fanning of air onto my extended tongue. Of course, I only had a couple of them at the time. So when I read on Foodista and on We Heart Food that Pimientos de Padron were on sale again, I knew I had to get some. I convinced Annie to go to the Palo Alto Farmer’s Market and pick some up
Happy Quail Farms Pimientos de Padron Peppers on Sale
Tomato season is rolling around, and soon we’ll be inundated with a bounty of tomatoes from our garden.
Part of last year’s bounty:
I’ve documentedquite a fewrecipes for utilizing the tomato harvest. One of my favorite tomato recipes has got to be gazpacho. Gazpacho is the perfect dinner for a warm summer evening. Now I’ve found a way to boost the cancer-fighting power of this cold tomato soup, without a lot of extra work.
Annie had such a delicious success with the Roasted Leg of Lamb recipe from “Cooking In Style the Costco Way” that she picked up another Costco cookbook, “Easy Cooking the Costco Way”. In it, she found a recipe for polenta pie that she really wanted to try.
Normally, we buy polenta in a thick, sausage-like tube from Trader Joe’s. We cut the tube up into rounds and then pan fry or grill them. The polenta cakes then serve as the base for any number of different main dishes. Continue reading Polenta Pie→
Otherwise known by its Latin name Luffa Acutangula, Loofah Squash, Chinese Okra, or a myriad other names all over the world. When raised to maturity, it can be dried and used as a body scrub. But if harvested when still young, its flesh is sweet and can be used as a vegetable in many different, delicious ways. Continue reading Stir-Fried Sequa→
