This week features a delightful pop of summer with frozen cherry tomatoes and strawberries. The cherry tomatoes are a super versatile frozen item that can work in a lot of ways. While we love tossing them in an omelet or soup, our favorite recipe is sweet tomato sauce. This is a slow(ish)-roasted version of stove-top tomato sauce that will work … Read More
What the Heck is an Heirloom?
Back in the day before industrialized agriculture, a much wider variety of plant foods were grown. Today most produce crops you find in the grocery store are grown in monoculture farms in order to maximize production efficiencies as well as visual and size consistency. There are a pint full of criteria for what constitutes being an heirloom; one being open-pollinated. Open-pollinated plants either … Read More
Our Most Prized Family Heirloom – IN YOUR BAG!
This week’s heirloom tomatoes will include any of the four classes: family, commercial, mystery, and created. These tomatoes lack the gene that give your typical tomatoes the uniform red color (your consumer-perfect grocery store type). Because of this, they are able to more easily manufacture sugar. This makes them sweeter than your average tomato. Heirloom tomatoes have become exceedingly popular … Read More
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