Loveliness of the Leek: Food Plating Techniques

by Chef's Garden | Dec 8, 2022 | Food

Leeks add a lusciously earthy onion flavor to dishes as diners anticipate the delicious heat sensation that builds in the back of their throats. Consumed since ancient times, it’s intriguing to imagine how people in long-ago Egypt and then Rome feasted with leeks....

Flavorful Range of Radicchio: Food Plating Techniques

by Chef's Garden | Nov 22, 2022 | Cuisine

Raw radicchio can add a bitter-spicy flavor that lends itself well to salads and dishes with sweet or acidic ingredients. When cooked, the taste becomes more mellow and can even take on a touch of sweetness. Here are three ways to use this unique ingredient in glasses...

Cauliflower: Plating Techniques

by Chef's Garden | Nov 8, 2022 | Cooking or Recipes

Farm-fresh cauliflower from The Chef’s Garden comes in a range of gorgeous hues, each with subtly different flavors. Here are delicious ways to serve cauliflower at the bar, in a fine dining setting, and at a country club.   At the Bar: Cauliflower and Hot Chili Jam...

Best Vegetables for Skin Care

by Chef's Garden | Oct 31, 2022 | Health & Beauty

When you consider that your body and cells are literally made of what you eat, it becomes easier to understand the phrase “beautiful skin comes from the inside out.” Our bodies are amazing, constantly making new skin cells. In babies, new skin cells are made every...

Bok Choy: Plating Techniques

by Chef's Garden | Aug 29, 2022 | Cooking and Recipes

From culinary artists to sculptors, bok choy has long been recognized as a vision of beauty. Grown along the fertile banks of China’s Yangtze River for 3,500 years now, its gorgeous color and eye-catching shape attracted the attention of ancient jade carvers. Once...