One of the great things about the Cambridge Food Co-op is the fresh fish that comes in each week from Boston. We get a menu to order from and there always seems to be something new and a little different. This week I ordered striped bass–or what we called “rockfish” on the Chesapeake Bay–and it […]
Tags:fish·steaming·vegetables
For years we’ve been making our collards the old-fashioned way: boiling them to death. But lately my wife expressed concerns that we were leaching all the nutrient goodness out of our greens. Could we prepare them a better way? This week I picked up a bunch of large-leafed collards at the farmers market and tried […]
This morning I picked a big bowl full of green beans, the first to mature this season. Planted May 21, these are a Blue Lake bush variety that looks awfully similar to the Italian green beans we like so much. They are flat-ish and full of meaty flavor. Just picked off the plant, they are […]
Tags:green beans·steaming·summer
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