Ambitious Delicious(ness)

[I want to thank each and every one of you for clicking away for Haiti! Unfortunately, I'm unable to know how much was raised until later. I promise to keep you all posted!]

I recently came across this interesting article in the Huffington Post called Why My Food Is Always Gonna Look Better Than Yours. The author, Denise Vivaldo, states that her food pictures look so good that they “make vegans crave meat and forget about their animal friends.” Sounds great, right?

But if try to eat her food, “you will die of food poisoning.”

She points out that a lot of inedible ingredients are used to get the photos to look just right. After all, her goal is to get people to go out and buy the food she photographed! Fortunately for me, there is no shoe polish or glue in my kitchen, and I’m glad that I can eat the food afterwards!

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Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is when a farmer offers a certain number of “shares” to the public. Interested consumers then purchase a share to receive a box of seasonal produce each week throughout the farming season. The produce is fairly priced, local grown, and in my case, organic.

This was my first time cooking with rhubarb. I never even knew what it looked like before, to be honest. To me, rhubarb = celery + a little bit of tomato + more tart than a lemon. Would you say that is a pretty accurate description?

I can see why strawberries are so often paired with rhubarb in pies and other desserts, as the flavors harmonize very well. But I didn’t want to go in that direction.
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I picked up some cilantro, some yellow squash, red heirloom tomatoes and zucchini from my favorite place ever (the farmers market) the other day. =) I can’t wait to see what great autumn produce they have this week!

While reading Serious Eats, I had bookmarked this recipe for pico de gallo with Tilapia and thought I’d give it a shot. I ventured out to a Chinese grocery store in my ‘hood. It was about 9 pm, which clearly means that the fish is not as fresh as it would be earlier in the day. However, I decided to take my chances (I’m such a rebel) and chose to go anyway.

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