Side Dishes – Page 2 – Slices of Blue Sky

Recipe: Zucchini Fritters

May 28, 2008 2 Comments

The first zucchini have started to appear in Berkeley’s farmers market, though not in the diversity shown in the photo above (which I took last summer). One of my favorite ways to eat zucchini is as a herb-laced, cheese-studded fritter. The zucchini is grated, salted, rested, and then the moisture is squeezed. There are endless […]

Ingredients, Side Dishes, Vegetables

Okra Without the Slime

August 23, 2006 26 Comments

Inspired in part by Shuna of Eggbeater, I have been cooking okra since it started appearing at the Farmers’ Market in Berkeley Okra’s Oozing – Why Okra Makes Slime Okra is one of those “binary foods” where people seem to hate it or love it (also in this family are mushrooms, seaweed, and tofu). The […]