Tomato, The Queen of Vegetables

In my home tomatoes are one type of vegetable we can’t do without.  We eat them raw, cooked, chopped, sliced, and whatever other way there is to ingest them.  We eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and for snacks when there is no meal on the table. The food literature I’ve been reading tells [...]

Eggplant & Feta Rolls

This easy appetizer makes a wonderful side dish, take-along for a summer picnic or a party.  Best of all, it can be eaten cold. Ingredients 2       large eggplants 4       tablespoons olive oil 1       cup crumbled feta cheese 1       cup ricotta cheese 2       cups finely chopped parsley 3       cloves garlic, mashed 2       red bell pepper, or 6 [...]

Much Ado about Zucchini, Part 2

When The Zucchini reach the old world, you can say, it was magic.  The Italian not only gave the squash variety its commonly known name, but they have developed dozen of ways to cook zucchini.  Both the Italian and the French have created so many wonderful ways to eat zucchini it would be impossible to [...]

Much Ado About Zucchini , part 1

Anyone who has planted zucchini squash will know what the “abundant” means.  It is one vegetable that, once planted, resembles Jack’s beanstalk.  That is, the zucchini vine never stops growing, so the question now, “what do we do with them all?” And we might wonder why such a plethora of vegetables doesn’t exist with hard [...]