Windset Gazette - May 2010
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Issue #6: May 19th, 2010 | Windset Farms™ | E-newsletter to Windset Fan |
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The spotlight: 
As you make ready the grill for summer adventures, make sure you pair these tomatoes with your burgers. Our Virtuosos™ are like your big, juicy, old-fashioned, grandma's garden tomatoes known for their firm texture and summertime flavour. A classic component of many a favourite sandwich or burger, Virtuoso™ tomatoes are less sweet than our other tomatoes but every bit as flavourful. They present a delicious contrast to the Roma tomato and also temper the heat of our Gusto™ pepper in salsas.
Coming up... EAT! Vancouver May is National May is also National
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Featured recipe:
Not really. But you can make some! Our May recipe takes advantage of Spot Prawn season. Spot Prawns are the largest of the seven commercial types found on the west coast of Canada. Their sweet, delicate taste and firm texture make them ideally suited to this Fresco™ recipe where we essentially let fresh lime juice "cook" (that's what ceviche is) the prawns, then flavour them with vanilla bean and Mirin, a sweet Japanese wine. All you need to cook with this recipe is a fridge! Here’s an idea... Fresh, delicious pickles prepared in less than 20 minutes. Looking for a unique flavour for your BBQ this weekend? A jewel for the grill crown? If you can boil vinegar and put things into a jar, you can make these pickles. Ready? Let's go:
This is just the beginning. Make these truly your own by changing up the recipe. Try white wine vinegar, apple cider vinegar, add a Gusto™ pepper (remember to seed it!) for some kick, add some dill, the world is your jar. Whatever you do, remember to share your ideas with us! Nutrition tip:
But it will help on the health front. We know we’re preaching to the converted here but, we’ll say it anyway – a diet rich in fresh fruits and vegetables is good for you and your cost of living. If you’ve been thinking about ways to cut down on your meat consumption but are worried about balancing your proteins and other nutrients, we’ve gathered a few links here that you may find useful. The more you know, the better decisions you can make.
Scholar's corner: Greenhouses have been around for a long while. Almost as long as recorded history.
Apparently, during the second century A.D. someone came up with the bright idea of building an open house with walls above the ground, and growing plants inside. At first, these structures were missing a roof but were later covered with thin slabs of mica (sheet glass would not be invented for another century). Fires were kept burning around the outside to keep the necessary temperature inside. This type of building was called a specularium and inside these structures flowers and fruit were forced. When the Emperor Tiberius was ill, his doctors put him on a diet of something similar to the modern cucumber. To the amazement of his friends, he grew these in his specularium. Roman influence faded after the fall of the empire and many of their horticultural methods were lost. Somewhere in the thirteenth century, a Dominican friar revived the practice of forcing fruits and flowers in the hothouse. He was so good at it that people became suspicious and charged him with witchcraft and he narrowly avoided death. Think about that the next time you bite into a tomato... Fast-forward to the nineteenth century and we see large-scale greenhouses being built. The conservatory at Kew Gardens in England is a good example of the Victorian greenhouse. A major architectural achievement in monumental greenhouse building was the Royal Greenhouses of Laeken (1874-1895) for King Leopold II of Belgium. And here we are today, adding a few modern techniques to a centuries old practice. So, when you eat a Windset Farms™ product, we all have a lot of people to thank for getting it to your table. Including someone who was almost burned at the stake. |
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