Winter is honestly the best time in India for fresh produce. The markets suddenly become colorful, prices drop, and the quality of fruits and vegetables becomes so much better than the rest of the year. That’s why I love cooking winter dishes — everything tastes naturally sweeter and richer. Want to know more about winter seasonal produce — which fruits and veggies are best, when they come, and how to pick them? 👇 Read the full post here:

When I'm looking for inspiration, I head straight to Pinterest (sorry Google :/), and that's exactly what I did after my last post about seasonal produce. I found a few good resources, and then I started browsing some reliable websites and have a nice list going. Not only did I find WHAT to shop for, I also found recipes for those foods. Here were some of my favorites, starting with the better ones:

Whole Living has an extensive collection of seasonal foods, as well as foods that are good year-round! Each season has a number of slideshows featuring different foods. The only minor drawback is that not ALL of the recipes are veggie friendly. But I handle that in one of three ways: a. find a veggie meat substitute b. leave that ingredient out c. don't make that meal :)

Cooking Light has a similar type of collection of seasonal foods with accompanying recipes.

Real Simple has a list of 12 winter foods and offers limited recipes for each. (I may still have a slight grudge against them for cancelling my subscription when the post office was too incompetent to find my mailbox and sent my magazines back... /rant)

Pop Sugar has a brief winter produce recipe guide.

Mint (yes, the personal finance management website) also has a short list of foods that are in season and friendly on the budget during the winter months.

Bliss Tree has a slide show of winter fruits and veggies, as well as a list of recipes for those foods starting on slide 4

Anytime Health has a winter produce guide that I was generally unimpressed with, but I included it for folks with more adventurous taste-buds than mine :)

I think what I will do is spend some time looking for recipes that I'd be willing to try over these last weeks of winter and incorporate one new dish per shopping trip. I'm not sure where I'll begin, but within the next week I'll let you know the plan!

Although, after seeing your stuffed zucchini, I may start there! Also, I was  skimming too quickly and thought you got the KALE for Christmas. I started thinking, "Guuuuuurl, you best toss that out!"

Tonight, we're celebrating payday by hunting for a craft brew bar in the city, there are plenty of awesome places we haven't checked out yet, so I think we'll choose the place based on the best specials/prices. Would you expect anything different?! I'll drink one for you in honor of your upcoming 5k!!!