Buying ‘home grown’ (i.e. foods grown locally) is an important thing. Imported foods have food miles on them (food miles = the number of miles that item has travelled from farm to your table — if an apple is picked in New Zealand and is flown to Canada — it travels about 7,300 air miles — this doesn’t include time or distance for packing, trucking and waiting in food depots).
Food miles contribute to how fresh your food is, the carbon emissions created from moving that food from the farm to your table and the pesticides that are used to keep it fresh during transport (bet you didn’t know I knew all of this huh?)
So when President’s Choice asked to send a green bin filled with home grown produce – I was very much on board.
Home Grown watermelon, Home Grown, cauliflower, Home Grown cantaloupe. Yum. I’ve put together a made-by-me recipe using President’s Choice Home Grown (tried and true) to share – from my table to yours….
Spanish Frita
– 2 home grown red peppers (or use 1 red/1 orange)
– 4 home grown tomatoes (cut them big or small)
– splash of olive oil
– salt & pepper
Cut peppers and tomatoes. Splash some olive oil in to a heated pan – invite the peppers to be the 1st guests at your party and leave them to hang out in the hot pan.
Ok – now the peppers are getting lonely – add in those crazy tomatos.
Now the peppers & tomatoes are naked and they don’t like that so dress them up with a dash of salt and fresh ground pepper.
On a low heat – leave the party in the pan for 20-30 minutes (allowing the peppers to soften and the tomatoes to stew).
Spanish Frita is considered a salad/side dish in Spain (according to my mother-in-law) – it can be served warm or room temperature. Combine it with rice or pasta for a main dish.
Freezes well.
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