Ontario Seasonal Recipes

Want to know the gender of your pepper? Flip it over, those with four bumps are female and three bumps are male. Female peppers are full of seeds but sweeter and better for eating raw while male peppers are better for cooking.

Everyone makes “asparagus pee,” but not everyone can smell it

Leeks were prized by the ancient Greeks and Romans and were especially valued for their beneficial effect for the throat. The Greek philosopher Aristotle credited the clear voice of the partridge to a diet of leeks, while the Roman emperor Nero supposedly ate leeks everyday to make his voice stronger.

It doubles as a vegetable AND a spoon. Bok choy is sometimes called a soup spoon because of the shape of its leaves.

Red potatoes have more potassium than a banana!

All bell peppers start out as green.  Yellow, orange, red, and purple are all stages of ripening, and offer different levels of sweetness.

Its unique name is derived from the German word for cabbage (kohl) and turnip (rabi).

Originally tomatoes were considered poisonous by Europeans. It was thought if you ate a tomato, its poison would turn your blood to acid. Aren’t we glad that turned out to be just a myth?