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- Brandi, selected from Diets in Review
- November 29, 2011
- 3:30 pm
- 30 comments
Look outside and the flowers have wilted, the trees stripped bare, and the lawns have yellowed. We’re just three weeks away from the start of winter and it shows. Your farmers market may have shut its gates for the cold season, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables being harvested.
No matter what your reasons are for eating locally and seasonally – be it flavor, sustainability, or economics – there’s plenty to fill your plate with in-season fruits and vegetables this December. Your local farmers will no doubt appreciate the business during these cold months, and your nightly and holiday meals will be bulked up with delicious, nutritious staples.
Don’t want to depend on someone else to raise your winter fruits and veggies for you? There’s no reason you can’t tend a garden all year long! A small container garden with proper covering – plastic tents, mulch, or drop cloths – can keep your backyard producing all you need for stews, soups, salads, and sides from now until the groundhog predicts our warm-weather destiny.
In season for December:
Fruits: Tangerines, dates, bananas
Vegetables: Brussels sprouts, sweet potatoes, artichokes, garlic, leeks, and greens (endive, chard, spinach, kale)
Enjoy all the flavors of the season with these recipes:
Molasses Whipped Sweet Potatoes
Winter Fruit Compote with Tangerines
Curly Endive, Slivered Dates, and Pear Salad
Roasted Garlic
You can add bold flavor to the simplest of dishes when you add just a clove or two of roasted garlic. Save yourself time and roast an entire bulb of garlic at once. Then, keep it in a sealed container in the refrigerator.
Ingredients
- 1 head regular or elephant garlic
- 1 spray olive oil cooking spray
Instructions
1. Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Leave the garlic head in tact and mist with cooking spray. Place it in a covered baking dish and let roast for one hour.
Read more: All recipes, Food, Vegetarian, winter, Winter Recipes
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Interesting article. Thanks for sharing.
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30 comments
+ add your ownIt's good to eat as what's given by our nature
I love the potato leek soup! Great article, that inspires me to stop at my local farmers market.
Thanks, always try to eat seasonally, recipes look interesting.
thanks for sharing this wonderful information
Recipes sound yummy! Don't forget persimmons too - the hard Fuyu ones can be peeled and eaten and don't make you pucker up.
Thanks!
Liked the recipe for potato leek soup. Always nice to see recipes using low sodium ingredients.
Thank you
The potato leek soup sounds grand to me.
Roasted garlic sounds good.
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