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California Bountiful Magazine
We had the best time at the Sonoma Valley Certified Farmers Market with Jennifer from California Bountiful Magazine. We got to shop and make our fun recipe for Cuddled Eggs and Vegetables with all of our fresh ingredients. California Bountiful Magazine helps to connect farms and cities and they have
Persimmon
We really wanted to try persimmons because of their beautiful fiery color. We like their sweetness and texture when they’re ripe. But how do you tell when a persimmon is ripe? It depends on the variety (more on that in a mintute!), but if it’s really not ripe enough your lips will pucker and fee
Mushrooms
One of our favorite foods happens to be a fungi -- mushroom fungi that is! But please don't confuse them with slime molds, rusts and yeasts that are also a part of the fungi family. There are an amazing variety of mushrooms eaten throughout the world, (2000 plus!) but the White Button mushroom is th
Pumpkins
We guessed that pumpkin is a vegetable but we found out that it is really a fruit. The most common pumpkins we use for Halloween are light bright orange,but there are so many other colors of pumpkins available, pink, green, tan, white, blue, and yes red! These varieties have fun names like sugar tr
Walnuts
We have a very gnarled, greatly slanted walnut tree in our back yard. We climb it, read in it and have even tied a chair in it to sit in. What we haven't always noticed is how incredibly tasty the walnuts are, our jack russell terrier named Jack usually beats us to them. Seriously, we cook with
Figs
If anyone asks us what our favorite sandwich is the answer is always fig and goat cheese. We picked these figs ourselves from our late Grandpa Bills tree in Arizona which makes them very special. Figs are so naturally sweet that a ripe fig is almost like eating a piece of candy. That must be why bir
Cherries
Believe it or not cherries belong to the same family as almonds, peaches, apricots, and plums, also known as stone fruit. In the United States you can find more than 1,000 varieties of cherry trees. One cherry tree can produce up to 7,000 cherries, think of all those pies! In our case, we love cherr
Sweet Peppers
We grow them, we grill them and we eat them raw with balsamic vinegar, they really are sweet peppers. The best known sweet peppers are bell peppers, they do look like a bell. They come in so many fun colors, green, red, yellow, orange, purple and even brown. Another popular sweet pepper is the sweet
Asparagus
Asparagus is a member of the lily family, no wonder our mom named one of us Lilly. We eat asparagus around our house for its whole growing season, it can be prepared in so many ways. Asparagus is related to onions, leeks and garlic and California grows about 80% of aparagus grown in the United State
Lemons
Kids and lemonade go great together but chefs and lemons go together even better. There are endless ways that chefs use lemons so we decided to learn more about this bright yellow fruit. .p. Lemons were once called the "Golden Apple", we don't think they taste like any apple we have ever tried. T
