Okay, so it’s mid winter and there’s really not a lot of seasonal produce available in most areas but I do have one tasty offer for you. Make your own orange juice! Oranges and grapefruits are readily available and nothing quite compares to a glass of fresh squeezed OJ. If you don’t have one of these fun vintage juicer contraptions (as most don’t), feel free to just use your hands. Also, many grocery stores offer fresh squeezed orange juice for sale these days, Liberty Heights Fresh being one of them. Bottles of fresh Valencia orange juice grace the cooler shelves right as you walk into their market. So, there you have it, no excuses to getting in your daily dose of Vitamin C this month!
Here are a few seasonal recipes for inspiration. Please feel free to add a seasonal recipe link in the comments section!
Winter Panzanella Salad with Grapefruit, Avocado, and Fennel
Baked Pasta with Butternut Squash and Kale
Roasted Brussels Sprouts and Lentil Salad by Naturally Ella
Kale Apple Ancho Chili Tamales by Happyolks
Farro Soup with Red Chard and Sausage by Kitchen Confidante
Orange Cornmeal Cake with Sticky Pomegranate Sauce by A Full Life
Blue Corn Nachos with Guacamole and Radishes by Cookie and Kate
Butternut Squash Croquettes by Love and Lemons
Red Lentil Soup with Lemon and Cumin by Cafe Johnsonia
Brûléed Meyer Lemon Bars by Completely Delicious
Roasted Spaghetti Squash with Pistachio Pesto and Dried Cranberries by Project Domestication
Citrus Cornmeal Cake with Poached Clementines by Brooklyn Supper
How to make the seasonal produce image appear as your wallpaper:
Step 1 Click on Wallpaper Image, this will open the image in a new window on your screen
Step 2 Once image loads on a new page, right click (or ctrl-click) image and select ‘use image as desktop picture’
Step 3 If the image does not fit your desktop background neatly, you may have to go to your preference screen and choose “Fit to screen” as the display mode of your background image.
I can’t get enough orange juice these days, especially since I came down with a cold late last week. I guess after all the hubbub with ALT, it finally caught up with me! What a delicious round up – thank you so much for including me!
Hope you feel better soon Liren! It took me a while to recover from that week as well.
Thanks for the link, and for another great desktop background!
What a great list and background! I am looking into the CSA program in Chicago, seeing if I can jump on the local seasonal produce bandwagon, until then, this will totally help me out when shopping and menu planning!
So, glad you found my site and are using the wallpaper! I love having the reminder there in front of me everyday. Best of luck in Chicago!