10 Tips for Buying Perfect Broccoli
We eat fresh broccoli all year, so I honestly didn’t know that it was a seasonal vegetable. Yep… fall to early spring, that’s when it’s at its peak.
I guess I thought that as long as the broccoli wasn’t yellow and limp, it was good to go.
No, no, no. There’s so much more to it.
Something to remember: even if you buy gorgeously green broccoli with tightly packed florets, if you overcook it you’ll loose all the nutrients. Lightly steam or microwave the broccoli until tender-crisp and you’ll preserve the cancer-fighting beta-carotene.
Here are 10 Tips for Buying Perfect Broccoli… at any time of year!