I asked the kids in our food appreciation classes if they could name some vegetables that are “in season” this time of year. One five-year-old piped right up: “Peppers!” he declared. “That’s absolutely right,” I replied. “But how did you know that?” Kids, after all, aren’t supposed to know their vegetables. “Because,” he answered confidently, […]
Tags:coconut milk·coconut oil·eggplant·food appreciation·okra·stew
When you’ve got lemons–so the saying goes–make lemonade. The same applies to eggplant. We’ve got plenty of it in the garden right now. In fact the plants themselves have long given up trying to stand upright, they are so weighted down with fruit. They just spread themselves on the ground. (Note to self: stake the […]
Tags:eggplant·Middle Eastern
It’s that time of year when we are racing to harvest our okra. It grows so fast in the heat and humidity here in the District of Columbia that we have to check our okra plants twice a day. You can practically hear the okra pods getting bigger. But my purpose here is not to […]
Tags:basil·coconut oil·eggplant·okra
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