Well Winter has well and truly arrived – car windscreens are icing over in the morning and the fireplaces are cranking! While most of the fruit trees have closed up shop for the winter, apples, pears and lemons are thriving in our Tasmanian climate! You’ll find the local apples and pears to be absolutely sensational at the moment and the prices in stores reflect their abundance.

An enormous array of vegetables absolutely thrive in our beautiful climate. Our local farms are very busy harvesting all sorts of vegetables to be delivered directly to our Salamanca Fresh stores.

This season you’ll be able to find freshly harvested Tasmanian: artichokes, asparagus, beans, beetroot, bok choy, broad beans, broccoli & broccolini, cabbages, carrots, cauliflower, chillies, garlic, kale, leeks, lettuce, onions, parsnips, peas, potatoes, pumpkins, radish, rhubarb, rocket, silver beet, spinach, swedes, turnips and zucchini.

Now is the perfect time to make warming vegetable dishes to keep you vitamin and mineral intake up and fight those winter bugs! Here are some great recipe ideas to make the most of your local vegies:

• White bean, spinach & sausage soup,
• Ratatouille,
• Broccoli, cauliflower & haloumi fritters,
• Savoury pumpkin, spinach and fetta muffins
• Low carb paleo Korean beef bowl

Click here to find out which seasonal fruit and vegetables are on special at Salamanca Fresh.