When I was a kid, my mom would make escarole pastina soup or “ska-role” soup as my Italian-American family from South Philly would call it. She would serve me and my sister bowlfuls with one limp escarole leaf and one cooked carrot that we had to try as a “learning taste.” I remember holding my …
Disclosure: All my trip expenses were paid for by The Soyfoods Council. Thoughts and opinions below are my own. Embarrassingly, it’s been two months since I went on The Soyfoods Council editors’ trip to Iowa but I’ve been wanting to write a worthy post ever since. I got to spend three days with some super …
The thing about summer salads is they are totally versatile, interchangeable and flexible. In summer, seasonal veggies are overflowing out of the farmers’ market, CSA boxes, the supermarket and even neighbors’ gardens. Thus it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to run to the store to buy recipe-called-for-broccoli when asparagus from the neighbor is …