Items starting with B

Baby Banana

Baby bananas are 4-5 inches in length, with a rich, sweet flavor, creamy texture and thin skin. Because of their size, Baby Bananas make excellent snacks.

Baby Green Romaine

Baby green romaine is a small loose leaf type of lettuce. The leaves, attached to a singular base, grow upright and somewhat close together to form an elongated head.

Baby Red Romaine

Baby red romaine is a small loose leaf type of lettuce. The leaves, attached to a singular base, grow erect and somewhat close together to form an elongated head

Basil

Basil is a sun-loving yet delicate herb that will soon wilt after being picked.

Bean - Cranberry

Cranberry beans have a brilliant red-pink pod with large bi-colored beans. They have a creamy texture and clean earthy flavor.

Bean - Purple Hull Black-Eyed Peas

Purple Hull peas are a staple in Southern Cuisine. The common perception is that Purple Hull peas are creamier, smoother and more delicious than their cousin, black-eyed peas.

Bean - Speckled Butter

Speckled Butter Beans are a staple in Southern cuisine and a cousin to Lima beans. Shades of crimson and pale green "speckle" the large, creamy white bean.

Beet Greens - Bulls Blood

Bulls blood is an heirloom beet from 1840 primarily grown for its tender, sweet, deep red-burgundy tops/greens.

Beets

Beets come in a few different shapes and jewel-like colors.  The most remarkable being the Chioggia beet with its red and white striped, or bulls-eye, cross section.

Bell Pepper

Sweet bell peppers have a wonderful combination of tangy taste and crunchy texture, with their beautifully shaped glossy exterior that comes in a wide array of vivid colors ranging from green, red, yellow, orange, purple, brown to black.

Bell Pepper

Sweet bell peppers have a wonderful combination of tangy taste and crunchy texture, with their beautifully shaped glossy exterior that comes in a wide array of vivid colors...

Bianca Aged Goat Cheddar Cheese

Aged for over six months, this semi-soft, raw milk cheese offers a cheddar-like quality with creamy smooth texture and complex, nutty flavor, a good melting cheese. Seasonal variations in the raw milk accentuate a diverse range of flavors.

Bintje

This is a creamy, yellow-fleshed potato with thin, pale yellow skin that's neither starchy nor waxy.

 

Black Garlic

Black garlic is sweet meets savory, a perfect mix of molasses-like richness and tangy garlic undertones.

Black Valentine

This western heirloom variety is a shiny black bean that cooks quickly in a delicious soup. All black beans turn purplish after cooking and have a meaty texture and rich, nutty flavor.

Blackberries

Blackberries are a member of a group of well known berries-blueberries, raspberries, strawberries-that were once wild and are now widely cultivated in various locations on a
year round basis.

Blue Cheese - Point Reyes

A creamy, full flavored Blue cheese made from Grade A raw milk from a closed herd of Holstein cows that graze on the certified organic, green pastured hills that benefit from coastal fog and the salty Pacific breezes.

Blue Lake Bean

A familiar and popular variety, often called snap or string beans. Most green beans grown today no longer have the tough string along the margin of the pod that needs to be pulled off.

Blueberry

Blueberries are round, smooth skinned, small individual fruits with sweet, juicy flesh.

Bok Choy Cabbage

Bok choy, is classified as a cabbage. Nonetheless, bok choy bears little resemblance to the round European cabbages found in western markets, or to Napa Cabbage for that matter.

Brie

A soft, creamy cow's milk cheese named after Brie, the French region from which it originated. It has a distinctive rich, creamy flavor which is deliciously mild.

Broccoli

Broccoli is the dense, unopened budding sprouts of a member of the cabbage family. Broccoli belongs to the same family as kohlrabi, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, kale, collard greens, and all the cabbages.

Broccoli Raab aka Rapini

Actually a kind of non-heading broccoli, rapini looks much like tiny bunches of broccoli on long stems nestled among spiky large leaves.

Broccoli Romanesco

Resembling a cross between broccoli and cauliflower, Romanesco is a compact head of beautiful lime green florets attached to a cluster of stalks.

Broccolini

A green vegetable similar to broccoli but with smaller florets and longer, thin stalks.

Brussels Sprouts

Their prime season is late fall and early winter, especially after the first frost.  They need the cold weather to develop their delicately sweet, nutty flavor.

Bull’s Horn Pepper

Bull's Horn peppers are sweet, 8-10" long and curved like a bull's horn.

Burrata

Fresh burrata should be served at room temperature. If it is too cold, the creamy filling becomes solid and hard and lacks that essential lusciousness.

Butter Lettuce aka Boston or Bibb lettuce

Butter lettuce has a small, round, loosely formed head with soft textured leaves ranging from green to pale green in color.

Butter, Whipped 5#

The Clover dairy brand began in the early 1900’s when the Petaluma Cooperative Creamery began distribution in Sonoma and Marin counties.