Three purple eggplant with green leaves lie on a rock surface

Eggplant Caponata

Rustic and versatile, it’s often served cold as an antipasto or appetizer or warm as a side to roast meat or as a pasta sauce or on crusty bread. Chef and SSE board member, Carina Cavagnaro believes the sweet-and-sour sauce paired with the creamy eggplant and briny notes can sway even the biggest eggplant skeptic.

Three cut-open white and brown onions and one cut-open red onion on a wood surface

Growing Guides

Growing Guide: Onions

Onions, like other members of the Allium family, are biennials, producing seeds in their second year of growth. The bulb (or common) onion has brown, yellow, or red skin and is round, elongated, or flattened.

Green jalepeno slices, greed leaves, a lime slice, sliced onion and a red tomato on a wooden surface

Recipes

Recipe: Fresh Salsa

Fresh Salsa, submitted by Loraine Wilmers, Seed Savers Exchange customer

Small pieces of flatbread with eggplant slices, onion slices, small leafy greens and small cheese crumbles

Recipes

Recipes: Eggplant, Onion, and Feta Tart

Eggplant, Onion, and Feta Tart, by Janine Gilbertson, as noted in the “Granite Kitchen” column of the New Hampshire Union Leader “This is one of those dishes that appears rather sophisticated but takes just a few steps and yields a great result,” says Janine.

A thin green dill herb plant with many tiny yellow flowers.

Recipes

Recipe: Dill Onion Artisan Bread

Dill Onion Artisan Bread by Brandi Peterson, “I had a recipe for plain artisan bread and decided to try dried dill weed and red Wethersfield onions chopped up and added in,” Brandi says. “It’s a big hit at the farmers market where I sell produce.”

Recipes

Recipe: Cabbage Noodles

Cabbage Noodles, submitted by Norah Hummel, former seed bank manager at Seed Savers Exchange, “I adapted this recipe from one shared with me by Steffen Mirsky, a [former] coworker at Seed Savers Exchange. His mom loved to make it,” notes Norah.

A pile of wet and slightly wilted greens with chopped white onion pieces on a white plate

Recipes

Recipe: Crader Family Lettuce

Crader Family Lettuce by Mary Katherine Crader Daniels, submitted for the 2022 Seed Savers Exchange Conference, “I hope you will enjoy this lettuce recipe as much as we have over the years,” says Mary Katherine. “It’s an old German recipe—my mother had a special way of wilting the lettuce.”

A close up of a leafy green lettuce plant with some splashes of bronze color

Varieties

Members Help ADAPT Program Shine

The year 2017 proved a success for Seed Savers Exchange’s new Community Science programs. Myriad SSE members answered the call to participate in one (or both) of the programs—ADAPT and RENEW.