Posts Tagged ‘Chickens’

Our first egg!

I found our first egg yesterday!

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My garden in May means lots of fava beans

My garden is a little behind from last May. The weather has been unusual for California this year, with lots of rain and cold. We have planted all the tomatoes, eggplant and romano beans, but have not planted our peppers yet. Fresh peas are still on the vines because they were late coming out this year.

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Chickens in my backyard

According to my mother, the only thing that was missing from my backyard was chickens. I am always talking about the eggs that I used to eat when I grew up in Calabria: the yolk was as orange as the sunrise and the eggs were so tasty that she would often whip a raw egg yolk with sugar and coffee for me as a snack.

A couple of weeks ago she came up with a brilliant idea: Read More…


Rosetta Costantino teaches classes on the cooking of her native Calabria, Italy, and other Southern Italian regions. She has authored My Calabria (nominated for an IACP award) and Southern Italian Desserts (to be published Oct. 2013). more

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