KRAFTY KORNER: What Color Is Your Plate?
Hello springtime!
Winter in SoCal passed through like a blink of the eye. A few showers and some chilly temps pretty much sum it up. Missed those alluring snow-capped mountains on my morning drive from the OC.
Local crops and wildflowers are maturing earlier this year with the mild temps. Buy sustainable produce at your local farmer’s markets. To locate one in your neighborhood, go to www.cafarmersmarkets.com.
There’s something very special about freshly picked strawberries, artichokes, asparagus, avocado, beets, lettuce. If you’re lucky to find the Sumo citrus, a tangerine-orange cross breed, grab it! Much bigger than a Satsuma, it’s seedless and tasty sweet.
Be like a painter. Paint dabs of color on your plate. Those farmer’s markets fruits and veggies in vivid reds, greens and oranges will do the trick. Try to limit the whites, like sugar, flour and rice.
For those beef, pork and lamb lovers, the most recent findings from a Harvard postdoctoral fellow study suggest two or three servings weekly of unprocessed red meats. Not processed, like bacon and lunch meats. Shucks!
