Your chance to eat a whole pile!

It comes every day.  For me it was baby lettuces with extra radiccio olive oil vinegar and red pepper flakes.

The $4 tomato

The $4 heirloom tomato lasted three meals and had barely any acid.  This one really proved that tomatoes are fruit.

Dairy fat not linked to weight gain

In fact, some studies linked here show the opposite, basically because fat is satiating.  To make matters worse, food companies realize that skim milk isn't appetizing, so they do funny stuff to make it look and taste better.  That funny stuff can end up making the milk, which in a natural state is pretty healthy for many people, actually dangerous by oxidizing the cholesterol.

Mezcal-spiked onion soup with Asiago

My Italian friend taught me how to make a simple onion soup.  We used beer (Sierra Nevada Pale Ale) because we didn't have white wine, and the result was delicious with no detectable beer taste.  This time, I had neither, so I used mezcal, as I'd just seen an article in LA Weekly about fancy and interesting new cocktails.  The picture includes a brand in my cupboard, and I love onion soup, so I went for it.  I used 12 white or sweet onions, though my friend recommends cippolini as the best-tasting.

I put them in a giant pasta pot with plenty of olive oil and a bit of good vegetable broth, cooking them down on medium heat until everything was soft and releasing water, about 30 minutes.

Then I added about 1/2 cup of mezcal and a little boiling water.  I cooked this down on high heat for quite a while, stirring occasionally, but in the end I had more liquid than when my friend made it.  The mezcal left a unique smoky flavor, very nice with a little butter, fresh ground pepper, and grated Asiago.  You could use Parmesan.