Starvacious

We got our first delivery from our CSA today. Included in the haul were: beets radishes beet and radish greens red Russian kale garlic scapes arugula spinach cilantro With these ingredients, and given the rainy, blustery-for-June forecast for the next couple of days, here’s what’s cooking this week: cilantro pesto – I went a little [...]

This Kale and Ricotta Salata Salad (from Kim Severson) looks delicious and simple. It calls for lacinato/Tuscan/dinosaur kale/cavalo nero/black kale. Why does this kind of kale have so many names? Probably because it’s so awesome. My favorite name is dinosaur kale, because it makes me think it was so named because the leaves look like [...]

My brain is getting into spring mode, even if the produce section isn’t quite ready to catch up with me yet. My theme this week is apparently, as soon as I see [insert vegetable] then I will make [insert recipe]. This Pistachio Asparagus Pesto on Linguine from Serious Eats uses spinach and asparagus instead of [...]