THE heady scent of aromatic garlic and rosemary fills the kitchen long before a magnificent roast leg of lamb goes out to the table, and you can picture already all the trimmings of a perfect spring ...

A few weeks ago, a friend gave me some of the first fava beans from his garden. Even though the weather lately has felt dreary and wintry, seeing those favas made me realize that, oh yeah, it’s spring ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hummus is a staple party dip that Carla Hall gives a spring-inspired twist. How? The chef and media personality ditches chickpeas ...

Quick fava beans -- that's an oxymoron, as my friend Debbie likes to say. It's true that shelling fava beans and then blanching them to remove their outer skin is time-consuming. And after all that, ...

I had no idea that on the day my husband, Marvin, walked in from his garden with a handful of the first fava beans of the season, that we would be eating them at almost every meal for a long time. Now ...

Instructions: Bring a large pan of cold salted water to a boil, add beans, and cook until tender but firm, 3 to 5 minutes. Drain, refresh in ice-cold water, and rub off thin skins. In a medium bowl, ...

The only place I could find fresh fava beans earlier this month was on a small, potted plant at the St. Joseph Day altar at St. Cletus Church in Gretna. I tried, folks. I checked in at farmers markets ...

That’s the dreaded question a lot of my mom friends hear regularly. Wouldn’t it be nice to have some dinner fairy just drop off freshly made dinners on your doorstep? Since the dinner fairy doesn’t ...

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This luxurious composed salad from Fiorella Butron, the culinary director of Sonoma’s Stone Edge Farm Estate Vineyards & Winery and its EDGE restaurant, combines two early-spring favorites — asparagus ...