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Accessories make grilled fruit easier. Thisfruit grill rack is from SurLaTable.com. As long as the grill is hot, make grilled fruit for dessert! Ingredients Fruit (see Step 1, below) Cold water Lemon juice Spices: cinnamon stick or pumpkin pie spices (allspice, clove, ginger, nutmeg) Rum (optional) Vegetable oil spray for grill Melted butter for…
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The size of grapes, camu-camu are vitamin C-laden superfruits. Photo courtesy Acai-Natural-Pain-Free-Health.com. What’s the next superfruit? It’s camu-camu—but you can call it camu, for short. Camu is the grape-size fruit of a small, shrub-like tree that grows in the swampy basins and flood plains of the Amazon rainforest. As ethnobiologists comb the world for fruits,…
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One of the 30 varieties of pluot, FlavorKing (photo courtesy Baldor Foods). June is National Fruits & Vegetables Month. The USDA used to suggest five portions a day. The latest dietary guidelines call for five to thirteen servings of fruits and vegetables a day (2½ to 6½ cups, not including potatoes, which are considered…
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Let peaches ripen to perfection. Overripe peaches can be puréed for sauce, turned into peach ice cream or peach smoothie. Photo by Gerhard Taatgen, Jr. | SXC. May is the beginning of peach season. Fuzzy clingstone peaches are in the market for your nibbling pleasure, with freestone peaches arriving in July through September. While the…
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Stewed rhubarb, one of our favorite spring treats. Here’s a recipe (photo © Baltic Maid). Have you been taking advantage of the edible joys of spring? Eat seasonally, not just because the products are fresher and less expensive, but because some of them are only available in spring. Veggies: Steam low-calorie artichokes, asparagus, broccoli…
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