 🎉 Blueberries are another superfood!
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Until Kohlrabi started showing up in my CSA box many years ago, I have to confess I hadn't the faintest idea what Kohlrabi was. 🍃 Kohlrabi is a member of the cabbage family, native to northern Europe.
🍃 It has a crisp texture, with a subtle radish like taste when eaten raw and a mellow turnip like taste when cooked. 🍃 It can be sliced, grated, or julienned raw to be added to a salad. 🍃 It can be cooked any way you would cook a turnip. My favorite way is braised with lots of olive oil and some red pepper flakes. 🍃 If you’re lucky enough to be able to buy the kohlrabi with the greens still attached, they are also edible. They could also be braised or added to a soup! Peas! There's nothing like fresh peas: English peas, Snow Peas, Sugar snap peas. They're all so sweet and crunchy! 🌱 Peas can be eaten fresh or dried. Traditionally, they were more often eaten dried.
🌱 There's nothing like the taste and texture of a fresh pea, though. 🌱 The simplest way to divide up the pea types are into field peas, grown mostly for animal forage and to dry and garden peas, with their higher sugar content and fresh flavor. 🌱 The most common varieties of fresh peas are: 🌱 English Peas, which have an inedible pod and crunchy, sweet peas. 🍓 Strawberries! My favorite spring and summer fruit 🍓🍓 I'm lucky to live in the climate on the California central coast, that is perfect for growing strawberries! I've also been on a number of U-pick strawberry expeditions, too! 🍓 Strawberries are native to the Americas, Europe, and Asia.  🍓 Strawberries are packed with vitamins and minerals such as, Vitamins C and K, folate, potassium, manganese, and magnesium.
🍓 They are also fiber rich and are abundant in antioxidants and polyphenols. 🍓 Strawberries are better eaten raw, as they lose most of their natural vitamins when they're cooked. So strawberry preserves and jams don't have the same health benefits as raw. |
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