10 Homemade Food Gifts

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Cooking with Fall Ingredients

Seasonal produce you should get your hands on now.

The Grand Sichuan on 2nd Ave has an interesting dish called Loofah (aka Sponge Gourd). It’s prepared quite simply, with the vegetable cut into slices resembling thick cucumber slices. An inherently sweet vegetable with a...

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I really try to cover everyone, and sometimes it works better than others. My SO has a strong aversion to shellfish, while the rest of the family loves it. My son-in-law has a similarly strong aversion to cheese, which, again,...

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My dad/dad’s side of the family were from Argentina. Here is how yerba mate was prepared in my house growing up, as a ceremonial thing on special occasions. We had a small (3/4 cup) mate gourd. Adjust your amount of mate...

knew almonds were the pits of really small peaches???)...I think gourds and corn. Really sweet family, happy to show you and your family around the farm. I believe that he said there is some type of maze for the kiddos. It is a...

Imagine the disappointment! Goodness only knows what her Delicata squash of the previous winter had had sexual relations with in its days on the vine. All of the cucurbits — squash, pumpkins, gourds, melons and cucumbers...

The monks who live in Malden sponsored a family-oriented gathering of Burmese food, with some crafts and lots of visiting going on too! A Chowhound kindly alerted me to it, and the tip was much appreciated! The food was homey and...

It is a green tea grown in South America that is most commonly drunk in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Paraguay. You put the loose tea in a gourd, and drink it through a silver straw with holes in it called a bombilla. The gourd...

There are at least a couple of “prickly” Indian gourd/melons. A variety of bitter melon being one (karela, not exactly like the East Asian varieties but very similar) and ridged gourd being another (goes by various...

I used to date someone whose family was from Argentina and he explained to me that traditionally it’s actually a communal, social drink. A group of people would sit together and talk pass around the gourd and all drink from...

Where did you get the info that a watermelon is a berry? It is a melon, one of two categories, musk melon and watermelon. And melons are part of the gourd family, like pumpkins & squash.

Pumpkin soup, pumpkin w’t, pumpkin curry—all staples of the Osner family dinner table—yum! Elise learned years ago that this vegetable has a lot to offer beyond pie (tho that is also a fave—we make it...