A Summer To Savor

Take advantage of the summer to catch up with healthy vegetables and fruits. Most of us don’t make it to the recommended five-a-day. You may have an excuse at other times, not during the summer, the variety of tender vegetables and juicy fruits are in full season now could not be wider. Chances are you are already eating tomatoes on a regular basis, at least as ketchup or tomato paste, and that’s good. Now, the question is finding some others to savor, and you can count on Food Naturally bring you healthy recipes and food tips for you to enjoy at home and participate in the exciting culinary world we take pleasure in without the need to step out of your door.

In season at this issue you’ll find French beans a.k.a. haricot verts, green beans, string beans or shell beans, from the vegetable side, and melon, full of summer flavor, from the fruit side. Find also the winning recipes for the seasonal recipe competition and an interview with the second runner up, as well as answers to some of the questions we received this month.

Now, it is time for something good.

Healthy Eating

Tender yet crunchy, and with a sweet flavor, French beans are in season. They are versatile and there is a recipe to satisfy every taste.

Melons are the genuine fruits of the summer. Oval or perfectly round, unblemished skin, wrinkled or rough, one thing is true: all the varieties have a juicy, sweet, very aromatic flesh.

Seasonal Eating

Where there is smoke, there is fire. During the summer, this fire is likely to come from a barbecue. Although we promise to include more articles for those of you who don't own a grill -as someone asked- for those who do, there is frugal grilling. The frugal grill is cheap and healthy.

Food Naturally Line

Summer came and the winners to our seasonal recipe contest "Complement Your Barbecue" were chosen. We invite you this month to meet Melinda and try her recipe for Carolina's rocking red sauce was chosen as the second runner up. She also gifted us robusta Italian style compound butter with which is probably as delicious, only it arrived too late to enter the competition.

The summer competition is closed and we will publish the other runner up and the winning recipes in the following issues. Now the question is... Will you pass the family traditions? We ask this question and we announce the topic for the autumn competition.

For the autumn season, we are asking you to select a special recipe the one you would pass to the next generation. That recipe you have taught your children how to make – or you would teach them, if you had children.

The summer contest closed and the winners were selected. Even if the weather was not on our side, we enjoyed a truly flavorful barbecue, if a touch wet.

Your Questions and Suggestions

Can you hard boil a egg in the same water with lets say pasta at the same time will it affect the pasta?

From: Larry

Yes, you could cook egs with pasta, but...read more...

Just caught the end of the show called Cristinas cooks and would like the recipe for the muffins she made with a big dollop of some kind of icing toppings. Where do I look for the recipes on todays TV show?

From: Sonia

Without information about where exactly you live, it is difficult for us to know which show or network you watched. We did not find straight information about the recipes on every day, just recipes published on PDF format at Christina Cooks current series, just follow the link.

Coming Next

Coming in the August issue

Finger licking summer kebabs, the possibilities of Spanish omelet, a cold cream as a starter and ice cream for dessert.

A new All Foods Natural. The same information and many exciting new features, but form July 1st a new name: visit us at allfoodsnatural.com -that's right, no dashes. Don't forget to update those bookmarks.