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Recipe: Apricot Vinegar

Apricot Vinegar

from Mario Hernandez Ingredients 1 lb. apricots, de-seeded and quartered 2 cups champagne vinegar 1/3 cup Baker’s sugar Preparation Combine Apricots, champagne vinegar, and sugar in a large bowl or glass jar. Refrigerate overnight, up to 24 hours. Discard apricots

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Fruit and News of the Week: April 25th

THIS WEEK’S FRUIT:  Apache Apricots Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA The Apache is one of the newest varieties of apricots introduced to growers and was developed by the USDA Agricultural Research Service. It’s early off the tree but doesn’t sacrifice any flavor

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Farm Focus: Blooms and Bees

On a recent sunny day driving through the orchard on the golf cart with farmer Al, we stopped to admire a new planting of annual flowers that were in bloom. Blooms of a purplish blue hue were flooding the 20

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Recipe: Fresh and Crunchy Raw Nori Rolls with Sweet-spicy Dip

from Tales of a Kitchen Makes 8 rolls Ingredients For the rolls: 2 nori sheets about 1 cup quinoa 1/4 carrot, julienned 1/3 capsicum, julienned few matchsticks of cucumber 1/2 avocado, thinly sliced For the sauce: 1 full tbsp unhulled

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Fruit and News of the Week: April 18th

THIS WEEK’S FRUIT:   Hass Avocado Churchill, Ojai, CA Creamy in texture, nutty in flavor, with a small to medium seed. The Hass skin is easy to peel and darkens from green to purplish-black as it ripens. Valencia Oranges Sundance, Oceanside,

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