Spring is here – it’s time for baseball, sunny weather, and seven surprising fruits and vegetables you may have never considered eating before! As always, buying ORGANIC fruits and vegetables is better for you, your health, and the environment. Take a look at these new fruits and veggies you can add to your plate this spring:
Artichokes: This vegetable is a great way to add healthful, Mediterranean flavor to nearly any dish. Artichokes are also delicious on their own – just boil and serve! Buy artichokes that are dark green in color with tight leaves. Trim the sharp points off the leaves with scissors when you get home.
Morels: These mushrooms are twisted in shape and offer an earthier flavor that is a perfect addition to a whole wheat pasta dish. Look for them at specialty markets or seek out local varieties at your neighborhood farmer’s market.
Asparagus: Long and spear-like, asparagus are a little sweet and very crisp. More importantly, they’re an outstanding way to get your daily dose of greens due to high levels of vitamin A, vitamin C, and vitamin K. Grill them, roast them, throw them on a barbeque, add them to pasta, or just eat them on their own as a side dish.
Ramps: Known by green thumbs as the first green vegetable to sprout in spring, ramps are wild leeks that add an onion/garlic flavor. Enjoy them in soups and other dishes where you would normally add leeks.
Peaches: Since different kinds of peaches ripen at different times of the year, you’ll be likely to find a ripe peach at the beginning of spring just as easily as later in the summer. Buy peaches that are lighter skinned for more juice. Eat peaches on their own, add them to breakfast foods like oatmeal and yogurt, or use them in dessert recipes.
Cherries: Sweet cherries, including the Bing and Rainer varieties available in May through August, are the perfect kind of fruit for spring – sweet, slightly decadent, and perfect as an afternoon snack or treat after dinner.
Radishes: These small vegetables pack quite a crunch and a surprising a hint of sweetness, making them an excellent addition to any salad or sandwich. Look for traditional radishes that are reddish in color, or try Easter Egg radishes that are pink and purple.
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Great list! I have posted a link to it on the message board at peta2.com
Well Kirstie, it would be wonderful if I and most people in this area could afford organic but we do well to buy food at all. You do not know what its like. Food is what you can manage to get for as little as possible.
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I grew up on my spring tonic of ramps and sassafrass tea, both of which are abundant here in southern West Virginia. Usually had fresh caught brook trout too. The ramps were usually fried in bacon and or sausage drippings until tender then my Dad would add canned Banner sausage, and scramble about a dozen eggs in them. Then he would add cheese to the pan. You always had a fresh hot pan of cornbread, a pan of fried potatoes and a pot of pinto beans cooked with a big piece of fatback. Oh yeah there would be about a pound of fresh fried bacon too. You washed that all down with steaming mugs of sassafrass tea freshly boiled. We raised our own hogs and always had a beef too. We raised huge gardens and canned all that we could. We rendered the lard and used it to cook with, it made the best pie crusts,biscuits and fried the best chicken too. And believe it or not my Dad and I never had high cholesterol or triglycerides either. While he was some over weight , he wasn’t that bad. I wasn’t over weight when I was young because I spent 6 to 13 hours a day working my horses if I wasn’t working on the farm. But after I got older and all my old horse injuries came back to haunt me. Now I am obese mainly because I can bearly move around due to injuries. I buy mostly organic and use only extra virgin olive oil instead of lard. I also don’t fry any more. I have adapted most of my recipes to be healthy. But once a year I go to a ramp dinner and remember my roots.
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Enjoy!
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