31/08/2026
🥬 Joe’s Market Update - 31st Aug 2026 🥬
Spring is here, and we are enjoying super-fresh salad ingredients!
Our locally grown salad mixes include cos lettuce, chard leaves, baby spinach, wild roquette, tatsoi, and mizuna.
They’re more delicate than pre-packaged supermarket salad leaf mixes, making them more pleasurable to eat.
We also have loose rocket, Coz leaves, and baby spinach in stock, plus tubs of organic mixed leaves, rocket, and spinach.
Kumo tomatoes are also high on our radar.
They not only look good but are also high in sugar and low in acidity, which is part of why they taste so good.
They’re also high in antioxidants.
Adelaide, sweet, truss, baby and Roma tomatoes are plentiful this week too.
Think outside of the square when making salads.
Fennel, lightly cooked pumpkin, beans and cauliflower are great in spring salads.
Pears are plentiful, along with apples, oranges, and mandarins.
The sweetness is fabulous with a vinegar-and-olive-oil dressing!
Mandarin bags are even better value this week, along with broccolini.
Premium celery is also excellent value! Remove its leaves and store it in a Ziploc bag in your crisper to extend its lifespan.
And finally this week, we must mention Australian Custard Apples.
Grown in Goonellabah, just out of Byron Bay, this subtropical fruit is sweet with very small seeds.
You know it's ripe when you gently squeeze it, and it gives slightly in your hand.
The same as when you're testing an avocado.
You can ripen them the same as you do with avos, by popping them in a brown paper bag with some bananas.
Lastly, eat only the flesh, not the skin!! And if they've gone purple or black, you've waited too long to eat them at their best!
That's all for this week's update!
Caio,
Joe Russo
Foodie | Third generation Green Grocer
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