Delicious Local Colorado Peaches and Pears

What kinds of local produces can you enjoy in your area?

In my area, Colorado peaches and pears are delightful local produces.
Not only at farmers’ markets, but also at grocery stores such as Safeway and King's, I can purchase them for $1.00 for a pound.
Colorado peaches and pears are sold at more reasonable prices than peaches and pears carried from California.
They are so juicy and sweet!

Japanese Buck Wheat Noodles, Soba

Have you eaten Japanese buck wheat noodles called Soba?

I have seen several cooking magazines such as Martha Stewart Living, Everyday with Rachael, Taste of Home and etc. introduced cooking receipts with using Soba.

Soba is made of buck wheat and seems to be good for your health.
There are two ways to cook soba: cold soba and soba in hot soup.

The photo above is one kind of Japanese soba product that I purchased at a Japanese grocery store, Pacific Mercantile Company in the Sakura Square in down town Denver.
www.pacificmercantile.com

In order to make dipping source for cold soba and hot soba soup, there are seasoned soy source called Men Tsuyu (Men means noodle, Tsuyu means source) or Men mi, or other similar names.

It is very easy to cook Soba at home.
Hope you get chances to try eating Soba!

Homemade Zucchini Bread

I baked zucchini cup cakes with a fresh zucchini from my friend’s garden.

I love a cooking magazine, Cooking with Paula Deen and used her zucchini bread receipt from the following website.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/zucchini-bread-recipe/index.html

Instead of making 2 loafs, I made cup cakes.
The baking time could shorten from 1 hour to 16 minutes.

They turned to be nice and moist and delicious!