How about the weather this weekend?!  I hope you were able to spend time outside with your mom! I gave two tours of the World Trade Center Memorial Plaza on Saturday, but James brought home some tasty treats from the Greenmarket.  (I’ve been a volunteer tour guide of the World Trade Center site with the 9/11 Families Association since 2006.) He cooked up the gorgeous, leafy broccoli raab in the photo with some ramp butter and the last of the fat ramps in the market for dinner

One of the greatest things about eating with the seasons is the colors of the fruits and vegetables at the markets.  I was wandering through the Union Square Greenmarket last week and was gobsmacked by all the purple vegetables I saw.  PURPLE! We’ve read about the eating by color because deeply colored foods, like kale, spinach, pumpkin, and blueberries are rich in nutrients and possibly event contribute to preventing and fighting cancer.  Purple vegetables have to be right u

I’ll be honest: I’ve never cooked kale.  I am embarrassingly unadventurous about my leafy greens, and not for any particular reason.  Salad and spinach, and that’s about it.  The funny part is that I do love greens, and I’ll order them at a restaurant.  I just don’t cook with them.  And there you have it. However, all that changed today.  This morning James and I were chatting with our friend and Abingdon Square Greenmarket Manager Craig Willingham, and he gave us this awesom