Buongiorno - our dinner is a few days away and I've been looking for maximum-flavor legumes to cook at our dinner. To accompany the sesame-seed bread I'm making, I'm making two pâtés from these sexy Yellow Eye beans ($4.95/lb, above) from Napa's Rancho Gordo, and intensely nutty, locally sourced organic Du Puy french green lentils ($1.85/lb, below). I may also case some free-range Berkshire pork sausages if I find a little extra time this week. Can't wait...
A presto,
Marco Flavio
What I found this week:
Several kinds of nutty, pungent winter cabbages: Napa, Savoy and more. Perfect for a potato soup, a beef stir-fry or that ultimate wrapper for your Mu Shu pork.
The most grassy, sweet pea greens ... think snow-pea pod meets field green. Don't pass these up!
They're ideal in a salad or quickly stir-fried with a few slivers of garlic and Sriracha hot sauce.
A few heads of radicchio di Treviso are available from Capay Farms. These are properly bitter but robust, like walnuts. Try them grilled and drizzled with extra-virgin olive oil and a little Lisbon lemon juice (a few stands down from Bernard Family Ranch), and sprinkled with fleur de sel.
Organic walnuts in the shell for $1.50/lb from Ferrari Farms: just right in breads, cereal, trail mix or your very own walnut gelato.
Blood oranges: the dream team with chocolate or coffee desserts. Who's using them this Sunday?
I can't pass up kiwifruit when they're as ripe and ready to eat as they are now ... they always remind me of home, since Italy's the world's top producer. Take that, New Zealand.
Enjoy!
Marco Flavio
I love the yellow eye beans from Rancho Gordo! Also, have you tried the kiwi from Four Sisters Farms (in the back near Dirty Girl)? They are to die for.
Posted by: darya | February 18, 2009 at 02:37 PM