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Category: Always in Season Recipes

Recipes created for Food and Wine magazine using seasonal California ingredients.

Toss Your Baked Beans Recipes and Try Santa Maria-Style Beans Instead

Santa Maria Style beans put your basic baked beans recipes to shame. What's the big deal about beans? Dried beans are just....dried beans, right? Wrong. Not all dried beans are...

How Italy’s Obsession with Polenta Helped Revive a Nearly Extinct Native American Corn

These addictively delicious Polenta Tots are from the food truck at Clif Family Winery in Napa, California. They are a fun snackable bite meant to be shared. If you've never had polenta cooked this...

What Can You Do with Dates? Delicious Date Recipes

Coachella isn't just famous for it's live music scene. It's also famous for dates. Though they are native to the Middle East, California grows a whole bunch of them, 95% of the domestic crop, in...

Incredible Garlic Recipes You’ll Definitely Love

From garlic bread to aioli to garlic fries to... vampires, many of us have a love affair with garlic. These garlic recipes make the best of the much-beloved allium, so let's get cooking!  Fresh...

Celebration of California Garlic: Spicy Garlicky Clams Recipe by Spencer Huey

This Spicy Garlicky Clams recipe from Spencer Huey makes the most of California grown garlic, and uses lemon, olive oil and wine to make an incredible sauce - plus garlic toast! Be sure to...

Insanely Delicious Recipes for Celery

We're all guilty of letting celery become less than crispy in our fridge while we pass it over for any other vegetable. But we are here to tell you that celery is delicious. Celery is versatile. And...

The Best Celery Slaw – A Delicious Celery Salad Recipe from Alison Needham

This delicious celery slaw is an easy celery salad recipe that is packed full of bright flavors and lots of crunch. Earthy celery is paired with tart apples, toasted almonds and pistachios, funky...

California Green Garlic: Le Grand Aioli Recipe by Spencer Huey

This deliciously simple aioli recipe makes the most of fresh green garlic, and is paired with fresh in season vegetables. The recipe comes from Spencer Huey of Spencer Cooks, who is a cook at Chez...

Beyond the Basic Bean Recipes

If your go-to bean recipes are bean burritos or chili, that's great....but don't stop there! We're sharing some of our favorite ways to use CA Grown beans.  Do beans grow in...

Bronwen Wyatt’s Apricot, Pistachio, Olive Oil Cake

In this olive oil cake from our friend Bronwen Wyatt, a layer of tender, flavorful pistachio cake is topped with a bright, rich layer of apricot butter and finished with the most addictive pistachio...

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