Hallo and happy first week of May to you!
This week we are delighted to be able to offer a fruit whose history goes
back, maybe as far as The Garden of Eden - the luscious pomegranate. This
extraordinary fruit not only looks beautiful, with its luscious deep crimson
seeds just bursting with flavour but is so packed with antioxidants that it is
surely the queen of the superfoods. Studies into what makes this fruit sing
have revealed that it has properties that are anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory and
anti-ageing. Just one fruit contains 40% of your daily Vitamin C intake and it
contains almost every type of anti-oxidant,. Most importantly however, it
tastes like a slice of heaven and makes a beautiful addition to salads and is an
essential ingredient for Middle Eastern cooking. If you have not yet introduced
your taste buds to this incredible food, now is the time to treat
yourself.
This week our supplier of pineapples has come up trumps, providing us with
giant samples that pair up beautifully with their beautiful custard apples,
complete with, as one of our market goers would say, the most wonderful "creamy
crevices." Add some of our freshly frozen organic passionfruit pulp and some
homemade golden custard and you have yourself a dessert worthy of royalty.
Navel oranges have finally come out to play, and we also have a very limited
supply of luscious ruby red organic strawberries along with island grown
persimmons - life is truly sweet this time of year.
Sadly the spinach is a little thin on the ground at the moment, but we have
made up for it with 3 different types of Kale - curly green, curly purple and
our own fresh picked cavolo negro leaves, and the orange carrots are sweet,
sweet, sweet! The round red tomatoes are looking too good to eat, but twist my
arm and I will happily combine them with my favourite farm basil and plenty of
black pepper, just as a snack or cook them up into a flavour filled tomato and
turmeric soup served with crunchy toasted olive and rosemary bread. Yum!
Before I forget, for those of you that are mothers, wishing you in advance,
the happiest of mother's days this Sunday and perhaps you can drop the hint that
we have taken 5% off the price of our cheese making kits as well as our
delicious range of organic chocolates. I don't think we need an excuse to spoil
our mothers, but I am always open to an official reason!
Well, that's about it from me this week - please don't forget to get your
orders in by midday each Friday so that we can get cracking on creating you a box
of organic food love.
Email orders: theorganicmarketorders@gmail.com
Text orders: 0476 000 996
Yours in food love always
Camilla and all the happy folk that are The Organic Market on
Macleay...
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