Looking like monster-sized green onions, leeks offer a more complex flavor to recipes.
Cooking tips:
Saute as a side dish, use in soups, use instead of yellow onions. Wash thoroughly, these babies are DIRTY! Most recipes call for the light green and white stalk, but you can use the green tops in stock.
Radicchio is a leaf chicory, sometimes referred to as Italian chicory, with white-veined red leaves.
Cooking tips:
Its bitter and spicy taste mellows once grilled or roasted.
This is ideal cabbage for many recipes. Mild in flavor.
Cooking tips:
Stir fry, steam, eat raw in salads or add to soups.
Substitutions:
napa cabbage