Today’s shopper is Caroline De Vita, a talented designer and illustrator. She’s going to make pasta primavera to celebrate this lovely warm weather. She’ll start by oven-roasting this Romanesco cauliflower in chunks with a little olive oil drizzled over top. While that’s in the oven, she sautes some chopped broccoli, zucchini, garlic, and halved cherry tomatoes in a little olive oil — and boils the salted water for the pasta (she uses penne). When the pasta is almost done, she takes a half cup of the pasta water and adds it to the saute pan with the veggies to make the sauce. Then, when the pasta and the cauliflower are both done, she puts all the ingredients in the pot together along with chopped parsley and hand-ripped basil, and mixes it all up. Ready to serve — sounds delish!

Today in the Green Booth, Plug-In America had an prototype electric car on display, the Mitsubishi iMiev. 

And the Valentine’s concert for the kids was a big hit! Here’s Birdie’s Playhouse in action.