Meyer Lemon Of the many varieties of lemons the most common in the Bay Area is the Meyer lemon, known for its soft thin skin and slig...

Grilled Fruit Salad These common fruits including apricots, peaches, plums and nectarines are named stone fruits because of their stone...

Tonight I made a Chicken and Fruit Salad with Tropical Asian Flavors, Great on a warm evening. Grilled Chicken & Papaya Salad Ingr...

Wild Plums and Wild Plum Chutney Brined Charcoal Grilled Pork Chops Pork Chop and Plum Chutney On a recent local hike I came...

Holiday Fruit This week at work I made a fruit salad for a special request using fresh blueberries, white peaches and strawberries wit...

Finger Lime "Caviar" One of the hottest foods chefs have recently discovered are finger limes, this member of the citrus famil...

Two simple amazing flavors combined to create an even better flavor. The strong flavored and salty cured ham paired with the soft creamy an...

Parsnips and lots of Squash A Mountain of Beans Fresh Chick Peas in the Pod, Hummus Maybe? Bing Cherries It seems ...

Plantains are the 'other' bananas; same family of fruit, but with a different texture and sweetness. Common bananas can be eaten raw...

Visiting my family this last weekend, they gave me a huge quantity of Kumquats from their tree. This fruit has origins in South Asia and was...

The Pomegranate has been cultivated since ancient times with its origins in Persia and the Western Himalayan range but they can found everyw...

I recently discovered fresh Passion fruit at one of the specialty food markets I shop at. These fruits are a new discovery for me here in th...

I took a recent trip across the bay to the city of Berkeley with the promise of some of the best fruit and vegetables on this Western Co...

Cherries are at their peak right now and flooding the market, in Washington state Rainier cherries are found everywhere and in part because ...

I always knew of the tree back in the corner of my yard, but this year when it decided to bear fruit I found out it was a plum tree!  I pick...

The markets are flooded with cherries right now, they will only be around for a few weeks. Buy them and eat them, they are so good.

I harvested the first strawberries from my back yard garden today, I didn't have time to make anything with them because the kids ate th...

I got the urge for warm weather fruit in the middle of winter. I have tried star fruits a long time ago and decided to buy some again to sh...

Last year I planted strawberries for the kids to munch on, I was surprised that they made it through the winter and came back. The bush is f...

On a recent Napa Valley road trip I came across these nice Prickly Pears, they are the edible fruit of Cactus plants. Mostly used in making...