Did you know strawberries are filled with masses of vitamin C and they are great for your immune system?
It’s strawberry season. The berries are ripe, they are being harvested, but because of the fall in demand due to coronavirus, they may never be eaten. Farmers are facing a massive glut and many of these delicious, extremely good for you berries are likely to rot or be ploughed back into the ground.
In this episode:
I’m eating strawberries
Because it’s strawberry season, and the berries are ripening on the trees, and if we don’t eat them they’re going to just rot
And that would be a shame
Because
Strawberries
Have masses of vitamin C, and antioxidants
And they are so so good for you
Can you imagine there are all those berries ripening on the trees and being harvested, and piling up and wasting?
I am thinking about how different our world’s going to be
One of the things that I think is so important is food – quality food
Food nourishes us, it can make us healthy, with strong immune systems, more capable of handling whatever comes
Food is also the center of our lives, our economy,
If we get food right – a lot of things are going to be better
So get some strawberries and eat them everyday especially over the next few weeks when they’re going to be falling off the trees
Quick tips on how to buy and store them:
When you’re buying strawberries you want to look for organic ones
Strawberries are highly sprayed crops and the pesticides are known carcinogens – so that’s really important
Make sure they’re red as possible and have a green stem – that makes for the best quality
When you get them home store them in refrigerator immediately, don’t wash them until you’re ready to use them
Eat them whole
Chop into cereal
Macerate them with a little maple syrup or lemon, orange zest, balsamic vinegar
Make a sugar free jam using chia seeds
STRAWBERRY CHIA JAM recipe
Put strawberries in saucepan over medium heat.
Cook till strawberries become somewhat liquid
Smash with a large fork or potato crusher
Remove from heat,
Add the chia seeds, and stir in
Let it rest till its thickened.
Once the jam has cooled to room temperature, put in a mason jar.
MACERATING STRAWBERRIES
This means to marinate the berries in sugar. Put berries, whole, sliced or crushed, in a bowl, toss with a little brown sugar and stir occasionally. After 15 minutes, the berries will have released some liquid; the longer they sit, the more juicy the get.
You can add tequila, aged balsamic vinegar, maple syrup, vanilla bean or extract, lemon, lime or orange zest…
This is from EAT GOOD FOOD by Sam Mogannam – a book I shared in episode 12 – check it out here .
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As we reconfigure and reinvent for the post – covid 19 world, it’s our relationships with the small things that will matter even more. Small actions add up to big things. They create the sum total of our life.
Let’s do better in small ways.
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