Seasonal cooking begins when you
know what is in season so that you can prepare your menu and or ingredients
that will go with that time of year. Knowing your favor profiles as well as
understanding the nature of the medium that you are cooking. Cooking is
different from perfume-making, for example, in that chefs don't mix pure
flavors essences in laboratory test tubes, and different from music-making in
that the flavors of ingredients aren't as singular as musical notes - They're
more like natural chords. Not only is an ingredient very often a combination of
flavor but it also has other characheristics that must be taken into
consideration when cooking -its aroma, its color, its texture, and even it
common associations, such as with a particular holiday or country. It is
critical that cooks become conscious of, and learn to respect, the medium of
food..
To help you get
started I have put together some ingredients. You may note that some of the
ingredients are of different color text or bold. These ingredients have a
special meaning to them and are more associated for time of year that I have
listed.
Spring Time:
- Artichokes
- Asparagus
- Avocado
- Beans, Fava
- Beet Green
- Beets
- Blueberries
- Catfish
- Chard
- Chervil
- Citrus Fruits, especially blood oranges, Meyer lemon
- Clams
- Crabs, Soft shell
- Cucumbers
- Dandelion greens
- Fava beans
- Fiddlehead ferns
- Frisee
- Garlic, especially green
- Greens - arugula, chervil, mustard
- Grouper
- Guavas
- Halibut
- Honeydew Melons
- Lamb
- Lettuce
- Mint
- Mizuma
- Morels
- Nettles
- Onions, Vidalia
- Papayas
- Peas
- Potatos, New
- Radishes
- Rhubarb
- Salmon
- Sardines
- Scallions
- Sea bass
- Shad and Shad Roe
- Shallots
- Snow peas
- Sorrel
- Strawberries
- Suckling pig
- Sugar Snap peas
- Vanilla
- Veal
- Water Chestnuts
- Watercress
- Zucchini
- Apricots
- Arugula
- Basil
- Beans, Green
- Berries
- lackberries
- lueberries
- Canteloupe
- Celery
- Chanterelles
- Cherries
- Chickpeas
- Clams
- Corn
- Crabs, Soft shell
- Cucumbers
- Currents
- Eggplant
- Figs
- Frog's legs
- Garlic
- Goat
- Gooseberies
- Grapes
- Guavas
- Halibut
- Honeydew melons
- Ice cream
- Litchi nuts
- Lobster
- Mangoes
- Melons
- Muskmelons
- Nectarines
- Okra
- Peaches
- Peppers
- Plums
- Porcini
- Potatoes, New
- Raspberries
- Ratatouille
- Red Currant
- Salmon
- Sardines
- Scallions
- Shallots
- Shellfish
- Sherbets
- Squashes, Summer
- tomatoes
- Tropical Fruit
- Tuna
- Watermelon
- Zucchin
- Apples
- Beans
- Beans, Green and lima
- Blood Oranges
- Broccoli
- Broccoli Rabe
- Brussels Sprouts
- Cabbage
- Capon
- Cauliflower
- Celery Root
- Cepes
- Chanterelles
- Chestnuts
- Coconuts
- Cranberries
- Daikon
- Dates
- Duck
- Eels
- Fennel
- Figs
- Foie gras
- Game
- Garlic
- Grapes
- Grapes, Muscat
- Herrin
- Leeks
- Lemons, Meyer
- Lobster
- Maple Syrup
- Mushrooms
- Mussels
- Onions
- Papayas
- Partridges
- Pears
- Peppers
- Persimmons
- Pheasants
- Pomegranates
- Pork
- Pumpkins
- Quail
- Quinces
- Rabbits
- Radichio
- Radishes
- Shellfish
- Squab
- Squashes
- Swordfish
- Tangerines
- Turkey
- Truffles, White
- Venison
- Walnuts
- Bananas
- Beans, Black and pinto
- Broccoli
- Brussels Spouts
- Buckwheat
- Cabbage
- Cabbage, Savoy
- Capon
- Caviar
- Celery Root
- Chestnuts
- Chicories
- Citrus Fruit, Blood Oranges, Grapefruit, Kumquats, Meyer Lemons
- Clementines
- Cod
- Daikon
- Dried Fruit
- Endive
- Escarole
- Grapefruit
- Greens, Collard and Mustard
- Kale
- kiwi Fruit
- Kohlrabi
- Leeks
- Lentils
- Lobster
- Mache
- Monkfish
- Mussels
- Nuts
- Nut Oils
- Oranges
- Oranges, Blood
- Parsnips
- Passion Fruit
- Pates
- Pineapples
- Potatoes
- Rabbit
- Radicchio
- Rosemary
- Rutabegas
- Salsify
- Sausages
- Sea Bass
- Sea Urchin
- Squashes, Winter
- Squid
- Star Fruit
- Sweet Potatoes
- Tangerines
- Tropical Fruit
- Truffles, Black
- Turnips
- Veal Shank
- Yams
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