{"id":16083,"date":"2014-06-08T16:26:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T23:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shescookin.com\/?p=16083"},"modified":"2020-04-14T09:39:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T16:39:16","slug":"quick-quinoa-edamame-and-pepper-salad-eatclean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shescookin.com\/quick-quinoa-edamame-and-pepper-salad-eatclean\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Quinoa Edamame and Pepper Salad #eatclean"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n Another Fast, Fresh & Easy dish for Sunday and Meatless Monday. We love to cook and eat good food, but some of us don’t like spending all of our weekend in the kitchen, right? I’m working on a whole peck of pepper recipes inspired by The Great Pepper Cookbook,<\/a> by Melissa’s Produce, so check back if you’re a chile lover, aka chilehead, or looking for a few new recipes with a little kick to add to your repertoire of wholesome, healthy dishes that everyone can enjoy.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, this is a quick dinner infused with the flavors of sweet peppers that can be made in the 20 minutes it takes to cook quinoa. While dicing the colorful mini peppers, my thoughts took me back to the CA Farm Water Coalition tour<\/a> of Imperial and Coachella Valley that I went on in February and how inspired I was by the passion of all the farmers we met, but especially by Ellen Way of Prime Time<\/a>\u00a0as a woman business owner, farmer, supporter, activist, mom, and wife.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n A day with Mike Wade, director of CA Farm Water Coalition<\/a>, and Ellen Way was like getting a crash course in California history, water politics and Agriculture for Dummies in less than six hours. Coachella Valley is referred to as the Winter Salad Bowl. The climate allows two growing seasons: planting in August with harvest from mid November to March followed by transition crops during the hottest summer months.\u00a0Known as\u00a0<\/span>The Pepper People<\/em>, Prime Time is the largest year-round grower, packer and shipper of multi-colored peppers in the United States. Prime Time combines open-field and hot house grown peppers which allows them three growing seasons and the ability to provide the marketplace with the highest quality produce 365 days a year, grown and packed under strict food safety standards. Their sales mix includes conventional peppers, organic peppers, and hothouse peppers. These mesh houses are the future for farming in urban areas – they allow farmers to fill the season, offer year-round supply, and grow varieties such as the Holland bell pepper which\u00a0are prized for their uniform, almost perfect, shape, thick walls, and sweet flavor in a multitude of colors<\/span>. Prime Time is a partnership of four families dedicated to embracing technological advances in production techniques by employing top agronomists to cultivate the perfect plants, produced in the best growing areas, utilizing GPS and drip irrigation, and building state-of-the-art packing facilities to ensure delivery of the safest and best-tasting produce in the marketplace.<\/span>
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