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Vegetables and Herb pictures - kitchen art - by Christopher Johnson at Imagekind

The following images are available as framed or unframed high-quality prints for your home or office. A wide variety of paper types and frames are available. You can even have your print on canvas! Just click on a link to see a larger image at the Imagekind gallery. These photos would look great decorating your kitchen or pantry.

Imagekind Gallery Vegetables-and-Herbs
Copyright (C) 2008
This gallery has photos of produce from a street market a couple blocks from my apartment. I took the pictures from the same stand I bought from. Everything was very fresh and green. Some of the photos have the background edited away. Behind the produce was an orangish colored tarp used to protect the stand's surface while practical it didn't make the best image. These photos would be great for a kitchen, pantry, or restaurant.

Narrow Celery

The upper half of a celery plant at the street stand a couple blocks away. This photo was contrast enhanced to focus on the beautiful details celery has. This photo is best appreciated via the larger preview image.

Celery

This is like the previous image but I added black to the background.

Celery 2

This is my favorite celery image. It is enhanced using a black background and extra contrast.

Chilacayote

Chilacayote is often found in markets and sometimes in the supermarket. It is obviously a type of squash, but if you ask someone if it is calabaza (squash), they just tell you that it is plain and simple: Chilacayote. They look like round Zucchini (another squash). They taste good. Don't ask me how to prepare them. They are smaller than zucchini. At least they are picked small.

Chilacayote

Chilacayote is often found in markets and sometimes in the supermarket. It is obviously a type of squash, but if you ask someone if it is calabaza (squash), they just tell you that it is plain and simple: Chilacayote. They look like round Zucchini (another squash). They taste good. Don't ask me how to prepare them. They are smaller than zucchini. At least they are picked small.

Lettuce

Lettuce is a staple for salads. This head of lettuce looks especially fresh!

Swiss Chard

Swiss chard is a common salad green that you can often find in markets and produce stands. It is similar to spinach with wider leaves and a characteristic white stripe down the main vein.

Spinach leaves

Spinach is sold in bunches. These leaves were stickiing out of the top of one. The background was enhanced with black.

Green Onions

I only buy green onions if I'm going to make tacos. They are eaten as a side dish after being cooked with meat juices or in a skillet. Sliced red radishes and cucumber slices are also typically eaten too. (just not in a taco)

Carrots

Carrots photographed in the street stand a couple blocks from home where I often buy produce.

Cucumbers

These cucumbers looked nice so I took a close up shot to see the water drops and the glow of the sunlight on them through the stand's canopy.

Chayote

Chayote is a vegetable that is peeled and boiled then eaten as a side dish. It is sometimes added to soups and stews. It must be peeled because its outer layer is very hard. Its flavor is mild. I buy them occasionally, but often decide not to because of the time it takes to peel. It is very typical.

Bell Peppers

Bell peppers are a little expensive, but they do give plenty of flavor to fresh salads.

Garlic

Garlic for sale in the street a couple blocks away.

Small White Potatoes

These small potatoes are fine for slicing or boiling. Baked potatoes are not very common here.

Bunch of Red Radishes

These red radishes are so beautiful that it is hard to want to eat them and lose their bright red glow.

Bunch of Red Radishes Vertical View

A pretty bunch of bright red radishes too good to eat.

Greenbeans Carrots Zucchini and Green Cabbage

Greenbeans Carrots Zucchini and Green Cabbage artfully displayed at the market. I took the picture as is. I suppose they grouped them together for use in a vegetable soup. In most stands, you can buy a tray of chopped vegetables ready for making soup. I really like this photos clarity,

Nopales

Otherwise known as Prickly Pear Cactus, Nopales, the plural of Nopal, is eaten in Mexico as a vegetable. Just scrape off anything sharp and boil, fry without oil, or grill them. Eat them sliced in tacos with longaniza or bistec and onion or just have them as a side dish. When you buy them in the street market, market, or supermarket, they are already cleaned. Since they are grown all over the country and they are from here too, they are very cheap. They are an essential food to poor families with a limited food budget like potatoes are in the United States. The flavor is similar to green beans.

Cilantro Leaves

I may be wrong since they are so similar, but I believe that this is Cilantro not Parsley. You can most easily tell by smell and overall appearance. Cilantro is typically added to tacos and boiled nopales. I do NOT like cilantro at all. The flavor is really disagreeable. I'd say it is an acquired taste. I had read online that Cilantro was used to cover the taste of spoiling meat in the time before there was refrigeration. That actually makes sense. Cilantro is the Spanish name, but that is normally what it is called in the United States as well by English speakers.