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Pea Tendrils
These delicate vines have a distinctive and robust flavor that tastes like a cross between sweet peas and spinach.
Green Swiss Chard
Swiss chard leaves grow on a pale whitish-green stalk. Shiny and dark green, the crinkly green leaves offer a taste that lies somewhere between asparagus and celery with possibly a hint of beet.
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Seasons/Availability
Baby Chioggia Beets are available year round.
Description/Taste
Sporting edible, seven-inch vivid green foliage, baby striped beets are about the size of a quarter. As the sweetest of all beets, the flavor of this variety is similar to the common red beet but milder. When sliced, the flesh is striped white and red.
Geography/History
Locally grown at McGrath Family Farms at Camarillo, California and native to Italy, stripe beets are also called "Chioggia" and "Candy Stripe" due to their red and white stripes when the beets are cut.
Recipe Ideas
Recipes that include Baby Chioggia Beets. One
is easiest, three is harder.
| McGrath Family Farms | Homepage |
Seasons/Availability
Baby Chioggia Beets are available year round.
Description/Taste
Sporting edible, seven-inch vivid green foliage, baby striped beets are about the size of a quarter. As the sweetest of all beets, the flavor of this variety is similar to the common red beet but milder. When sliced, the flesh is striped white and red.
Geography/History
Locally grown at McGrath Family Farms at Camarillo, California and native to Italy, stripe beets are also called "Chioggia" and "Candy Stripe" due to their red and white stripes when the beets are cut.
Recipe Ideas
Recipes that include Baby Chioggia Beets. One
is easiest, three is harder.| Spoonful |
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Chioggia Beet and Goat Cheese Tartlet |
| LA Times Magazine: Master Class |
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Meyer lemon-cured fillet of salmon with white asparagus, chioggia beets, toasted hazelnuts and watercress mousseline |
