Grilled Pineapple & Peaches Recipe (& Other Stone Fruits)
How to grill pineapple and stone fruits.
Category: Fruits, Nuts & Seeds
TIP OF THE DAY: Drunken Fruit #2 – Marinated In Wine Or Champagne
May 13th is National Fruit Cocktail Day. How about an easy “drunken fruit” dessert. You can use winter fruits or summer fruits. More delicate summer fruits do best with a white wine marinade; winter fruits such as citrus and grapes can use either white or red. You can do all of the prep work in…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Grilled Fruit
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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PRODUCE: Do You Know Camu-Camu?
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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TIP OF THE DAY: Eat Your Fruits & Veggies…& Discover New Ones
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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