Nov 15, 2018 | Napa Valley Register Article, Recipes
by Curtis Strohl Napa Valley Register Years ago, after relocating to Napa, my wife and I joined a local CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm program. At the beginning of the season, we paid a fixed fee to join, and then each week we were able to pick up a box of...
Oct 4, 2018 | Napa Valley Register Article, Recipes
by David Layland Napa Valley Register Chile peppers can be a hot commodity literally and figuratively, but they also can be on the mild side. On a recent walk through the farmers market I discovered our farmers carry a delightful range of flavors and heat levels from...
Sep 26, 2018 | Napa Valley Register Article, Recipes
by Janet Fletcher Napa Valley Register I like toast — who doesn’t? — but I adore bruschetta. Never mind that they are one and the same; to me everything sounds better in Italian. Maybe you think of bruschetta as something you eat for lunch, or as an appetizer with a...
Sep 12, 2018 | Napa Valley Register Article, Recipes
by Charlotte Florent Resistance to seasonal change is futile but you can preserve a bit of summer’s bounty. There are so many aspects of the changing seasons at the Napa Farmers Market that I anticipate with great gusto: the new incoming fruits and vegetables,...
Aug 22, 2018 | Napa Valley Register Article, Recipes
by Annie Baker Napa Valley Register Pears are a very under-appreciated fruit. I will usually reach for an apple over a pear. I basically psyche myself out about pears, telling myself they are too mushy or too mealy for me to eat and they won’t have much flavor anyway,...
Aug 7, 2018 | Napa Valley Register Article, Recipes
by Janet Fletcher Napa Valley Register Farmers markets have been an addiction of mine for 40 years. The first time I bought food straight from the farmer, I was a college sophomore studying in France. I can still picture that market in Aix-en-Provence four decades...
