Archive For April, 2008
I love using sweet Vidalia onions in recipes that don’t require cooking. Now that it’s April the baby version of these Georgia-grown onions are available at local markets. They are wonderfully crisp, juicy, mild and of course, sweet. This salsa is a great topping for grilled meat or meats that are cooked using a pungent [...]
Baby Vidalia onions, renowned for their sweet flavor, hit local market stands in the spring around March – April, once the onion farmers begin thinning their crops. The sweet onion is named after Vidalia, GA where a local market started selling the sugary alliums in the 1940s. About half the size of a full grown [...]
Mention beets to some adults and they revert back to a dramatic six-year-old with puking sounds and gagging faces. Beets have gotten a bad rap, which is unfortunate because according to the site World’s Healthiest Foods: The pigment that gives beets their rich, purple-crimson color-betacyanin-is also a powerful cancer-fighting agent. Beets’ potential effectiveness against colon [...]
My son was introduced to Doritos and was really driving me nuts with his insistence upon eating them… DAILY. I mean I’m fine with the occasional indulgence as a treat, but every time he asked for “chips” or “blue snack” (Cool Ranch flavored) all I could think about was the genetically modified corn, MSG, high [...]
