The recipe calls for fresh butternut squash, but all you can find are rock-hard, overpriced specimens that would require a sledgehammer to cut. Sound familiar? Winter cooking brings unique challenges that summer recipes never mention. Between skyrocketing prices, limited availability, and questionable quality, winter ingredients can turn meal planning into a frustrating guessing game. This…
Go back a generation or two and the idea of how to eat seasonally would just have been called normal eating. My dad used to work in fruit and veg and he always tells me that certain foods just weren’t around at certain times of the year. Now, with imports and transportation improvement, we can…
There’s something about fall, or autumn if you are in the UK like me. I’m a spring-autumn fan – I love the summer and endure the winter, but I enjoy the two seasons between. And with fall, there are lots of strong associations with colours and smells and food. There are lots of the best…
I bet there’s more than a few houses out there have a pumpkin sitting around. We have – it’s a thing around where I live that you put one outside the door and trick-or-treaters come on Halloween. Or so my neighbour with kids tells me. End result – one nice little pumpkin, uncarved, now being…
Have you ever had that feeling of being so content in the summertime? It’s like a special time for us all to taste and enjoy some delicious food. But what foods are seasonal only during this season, such as fruits or vegetables? Why eat seasonal food? Before we look at what foods are classed as…
