What are the seasonal foods in summer in Tasmania?
Eating locally grown food can be good for you and your budget
This summer try foods that are fresh, in season, grown locally and support local farmers, which sometimes are cheaper too. Fresh, locally grown foods may be more nutritious than foods that have been in storage or travelled from overseas. If you’re looking for lower priced foods, locally grown, in-season foods are sometimes cheaper too. You may find them at local grocers, markets, roadside stalls, local food ‘crop swap‘ groups, and community gardens (volunteer to help, grow your own or sometimes they have free excess produce to share), or you or a friend or family member may even grow them at home.
So, what are the seasonal foods in summer? Our good friends at Eat Well Tasmania suggest we enjoy these fruit and vegetables among our other favourite staple foods:
- Berries: black berries, blueberries, boysenberries, gooseberries, raspberries, strawberries
- Stone fruit: cherries, apricots, nectarines, peaches, plums, greengages
- Tomatoes
- Cucumbers
- Eggplants
- Zucchinis and squashes
- Chillies and capsicums
- Garlic
- Beans
- Corn
- Spinach
- Asian greens: buk choy, Chinese broccoli, Chinese cabbage, choy sum, mustard greens, tatsoi
- Fresh herbs: basil, coriander, dill, parsley, lemon grass, mint, oregano, rosemary, sage, thyme
Chech out Eat Well Tasmania’s excellent booklet with recipes you can make from foods available to us in Summer right now.
How to make Tuscan-Style Stuffed Tomatoes
With a range of tomatoes abundant over summer, this Tuscan Style Stuffed Tomatoes recipe makes good use of them. This dish is an excellent accompaniment to a Christmas meal or any meal over the summer. It also makes use of seasonal zucchinis, garlic, basil, parsley and oregano.
These stuffed tomatoes can last in the fridge for up to four days, enjoy cold for lunch or re-heat for 5 minutes in the oven.
Go to Eat Well Tasmania’s Tuscan Style Stuffed Tomatoes recipe.
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