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All About Sugar Snap Peas
I love eating sugar snap peas in the summer. A few weeks ago, the Union Square Greenmarket was full of them, so I decided to pick some up from Keith’s Farm, which I can always count on for everything colorful, fresh, and organic.
Sugar snap peas are a crisp vegetable with an edible pod that serve as a great sweet and crunchy snack. Although green peas are a starchy vegetable, sugar snap peas are nonstarchy and have a high water and fiber content (2 grams per cup), which makes them a great way to keep yourself s… read more »
Darling Clementine
As I’m sure most of you know, I love fresh fruit, and I rarely go a day without getting in a full three servings of it. During the winter though, it’s slim pickings when it comes to available fresh fruit. Unlike during the spring and summer when there’s a plethora of fruit available, winter fruit is limited mainly to apples and citrus fruit. As much as I love my apples (Gala and Braeburn are my faves), clementines are my favorite winter fruit.
Unlike oranges, which can be difficult to p… read more »
Wednesday Wonders: Freeze Dried Fruit
Q: Hi, I was wondering what the story is with all those freeze dried fruit snacks? I always give them to my two year old instead of cookies, chips, and sugary snacks, but does it REALLY count as having fruit? What nutritional benefits are taken out with the water during the process of dehydration? — Allyson
A: This is a great question since so many of these products are out there and who knows how many more will be coming our way. First off, let’s do a little comparison of these freeze-dried varieties… read more »
Please Pass the Potatoes
Sweet potatoes that is! Like winter squash, sweet potatoes are at their peak between November and December, even though you can find them in supermarkets all year round. Like white potatoes, sweet potatoes are root vegetables, but they can differ in size from short with round ends (like the white ones) or long and tubular with tapered ends.
Sweet potatoes have a thin skin and come in various colors, including brown, orange, red, and purple. The inside flesh is hard when raw, soft when roasted or baked… read more »
Squash It!
With fall in the air and winter around the corner, it’s time to start cooking some warmer, heartier fare. Heartier doesn’t have to mean unhealthy, and the fall/winter season comes with nutritious and delicious vegetables to cook up. One of them is winter squash.
Winter squash is in season from October to November (although you can find it from August to March), and there are multiple varieties of this squash family. All of them have hard shells and mildly sweet flesh, but they differ in s… read more »
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