Even though the temperatures are falling, this time of year brings a fantastic selection of fruit and vegetables. Add the following to your shopping list and you can be sure you are getting the best quality, value and taste with your fresh produce.

Fruit
Apples
Bananas
Cumquats
Custard Apples
Feijoa
Grapes
Kiwifruit
Lemons
Limes
Mandarins
Nuts
Pears
Persimmons
Quince
Rhubarb
Starfruit (carambola)

Vegetables
Asian Greens
Avocadoes
Beetroot
Broccoli
Brussels Sprouts
Cabbage
Carrots
Cauliflower
Celeriac
Celery
Eggplant
Fennel
Garlic
Ginger
Leeks
Lettuce
Mushrooms
Okra
Olives
Onions
Parsnips
Peas
Potatoes
Pumpkin
Spinach and Silverbeet
Squash
Swede
Sweet Potatoes
Tomatoes
Turnips
Witlof
Zucchini

Autumn is with us, and with it brings a diverse selection of fruits and vegetables. This month, you will find the best value, quality and taste by cooking with:

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Happy New Year! I hope you had a wonderful festive season and start to 2012. I’m sure, like many, you have taken on goals and resolutions and chances are that one of them is to eat more healthily. Seasonal eating is the best way to go, and if you need convincing here are 10 reasons why:

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Get more bang for your buck and eat more healthily, tastily and responsibly by choosing in-season fruit and vegetables. In season for the month of November are:

Fruit
Bananas
Berries
Cherries
Cumquats
Grapefruit
Lychees
Mangoes
Melons
Oranges
Paw paw & papaya
Pineapple
Starfruit

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We’re well into spring now, and the warmer weather brings with it a delicious selection of fruit and vegetables. This month, you will find the best value, quality and taste by cooking with:

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Tarte Tatin is an upside-down tart, made most commonly with apples, where the fruit is caramelised in sugar and butter prior to baking. Because I like to incorporate local and seasonal produce into my cooking, I came up with this version, where pineapple and passionfruit replace the traditional apple. It’s a tropical twist on an old favourite, and it’s really good!

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Due to popular demand, I have introduced this “what’s in season” column to my blog. As my regular readers would know, I am a big advocate of eating seasonally. Some of the many advantages of eating in-season fruits and vegetables are:

1. Produce is at its optimum taste
2. Better health benefits for you – produce is higher in nutritional value when it is fresh and hasn’t been stored
3. Produce is at its least expensive
4. Better for the environment – less air-miles for food to travel

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Shapely pears standing upright in a puddle of deeply coloured syrup make an elegant dessert. These delicious Port Poached Pears taste even better made the day before and can be served either hot or cold.

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After lunch or dinner it’s nice to have something small and sweet after dessert. Traditional petit fours are an option, but for something a little different, and possibly a tad healthier, these Moroccan-inspired morsels are a lovely way to end a meal. Not only do they look pretty, but they taste great too.  Perfect for your Christmas table.

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At this time of the year in many parts of Australia, cumquat trees are bursting with ripe fruit. Many suburban homes have cumquat trees in their gardens as an ornamental, but sadly the fruit is left to rot as it is too tart for most people to eat.  However, cumquats make fantastic marmalade – the perfect way to use that cumquat crop that you didn’t know what to do with.

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