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Recipe: Upside-Down Blood Orange Cake

from NY Times Cooking A Perfect Valentine’s Day Treat! Serves 8 Ingredients: 2 sticks plus 3 tablespoons unsalted butter at room temperature 2/3 cup light brown sugar 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice 2 medium-sized blood oranges 1 cup fine cornmeal 1/2

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Fruit & News of the Week: February 6th

THIS WEEK’S FRUIT: Tarocco Blood Oranges Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA A beautiful orange to deep red flesh is revealed when you slice open a Tarocco. The flesh of the blood orange is firmer and more dense than an orange

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Farm Focus: Asian Pear Plantings

Asian pear tree plantings

We are slowly but surely building up our fall and winter fruit crops with the goal of providing more Frog Hollow fruit for our CSA year round.  Last year, we were pleased to plant 5 varieties of mandarins and 2

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Recipe: Roasted Chicken with Citrus, Dates & Olives

from Martha Stewart Ingredients: 1 whole chicken (about 5 pounds), cut into 10 pieces Coarse salt and freshly ground pepper 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 1 lemon, quartered 1 orange, quartered, plus 1/2 cup fresh juice (from 2 to 3

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Fruit & News of the Week: January 30th

THIS WEEK’S FRUIT: Tarocco Blood Oranges Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA A beautiful orange to deep red flesh is revealed when you slice open a Tarocco. The flesh of the blood orange is firmer and more dense than an orange

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    1 lime
    1 cup granulated sugar
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