Hearty Vegetables for the Season

It's going to be a wet week ahead for us in the Bay Area (what, is this Seattle?), so I took advantage of the morning sun today and headed out to the farmers market at Oakland's Grand Lake area. It was interesting to see a lot of citrus and leafy vegetables out in the stands, especially the deep, purplish vegetables like this one I noticed called "tardivo." It looks like a cousin of the treviso, which is an Italian radicchio with the dark, royal purple color. I just love how this tardivo has such dramatic curves. In fact, all the vegetables at this particular farmer's stand were pretty curly. I love curly vegetables. :)