Shopping with great expectations
So, you're in your local
produce market (the organic section, of course) and, lo and
behold, you get a glimpse of the first organic "warm
weather" fruit.
The fruit looks really
tempting, especially since you need a quick pick-me-up after
riding your bike to the market because you can't afford a
tank of gas this week.
You've been waiting all winter for your favorite melons to
reappear and finally you see them and you buy them and you
take them home and you carefully slice a melon and you bite into
it and ...
Wait a minute, you say.
I remember these melons tasting much better last year. What's goin' on?
Welcome to this week's
Shopping Tip, called Great Expectations, from Goodness
Greeness. Expectations are wonderful things. You
can build them without a mortgage or a permit. You can
manage them without an MBA. But you can dash them by
buying summer fruit too early.
We'd like to help you
manage your expectations (no, we don't have MBA's either)
for great tasting summer fruit by giving you our Great
Expectations Organic Shopping Schedule.
This schedule
gives you exclusive access to the inside info on when the
new organic summer fruit from Goodness Greeness should be
at peak flavor.
Great
Expectations Organic Shopping Schedule
New this week
Blackberries
Papayas
Rhubarb (OK,
so it's not a fruit, but you need it for
another of my favorite pies - strawberry-rhubarb)
Peak flavor this
week
Strawberries
Raspberries
Wait one to two more weeks
Blueberries
Peaches
(from California),
Melons from
Mexico (Galia, Honeydews, Seedless
and Personal-size Watermelons)
Tropical
fruit
Mangoes
Bananas
Wait 'til mid-May (or so, we'll have an update for you next
week)
Cherries
Nectarines
Apricots
Organic
veggies of the week
 We've
also got a great veggie treat for you this week. The
season's first organic Vidalia onions are in and they are
soooooo juicy and sweet. They're great in salads and
sandwiches or mixed in with your scrambled eggs.
And if you are in Vidalia, Georgia this weekend, you can
attend the Annual
Vidalia Onion Festival.
If not, you'll
have to settle for these mouth-watering
Vidalia
onion recipes.
Speaking of onions, have
you tried our new bunched spring onions? They are
packaged in bunches, with the tops still on. You can
use the tops the same way that you use scallions, although
the flavor may be a bit stronger.
Recipes
So now you say "thanks,
that takes care of my shopping plans for fruit for the next
month, but what am I serving my family for dinner tonight?"
Sorry, we can't help you
with dinner tonight - the boss has us all busy getting ready
for the All Things Organic trade show in Chicago next weekend.
So you're on your own
tonight, but we will get back to sharing our favorite
recipes with you in next week's "Organics for you"
newsletter.
In the meantime, have a
great week!
Contact us
You can find a a
wonderful variety of organic fruits and vegetables
from Goodness Greeness at your local organic produce market.
If not, e-mail us
at
newsletter@goodnessgreeness.com and we'll help you
locate them. |
