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Recipe: Apricot Crème Fraîche Tart with Honey and Pistachios

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Thanks to our friend Alanna Taylor -Tobin from the bonjongourmet.com  for this recipe Ingredients Makes one 8- or 9-inch tart Pistachio Crust: 1/4 cup powdered sugar, plus extra for sprinkling on the finished tart 1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt 3/4

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Farm Focus: An Ode to Apricots – “Moons of the Faithful”

Mago with Apricots

This week marks a special time for Frog Hollow Farm CSA. Today, we welcome our first apricots of the season in our CSA boxes – Kettleman Apricots! It’s a beautiful time, the beginning of the stone fruit season – the

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Fruit and News of the Week: May 5th

THIS WEEK’S FRUIT Kettleman Apricots Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA Named after the California town near where this apricot variety was bred and tested, the Kettleman has a hint of tartness that apricot fans love along with a beautiful aroma.

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Farm Focus: Chutney!

middle eastern chicken

Chutney For hundreds of years, people have been preserving their own food. Before refrigeration was invented, drying, pickling, curing, and fermenting foods were the primary methods for extending the shelf life of produce. With Influence from India, chutney was one

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Recipe: Middle Eastern Chicken Sandwich with Chutney and Mint

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  Ingredients 2 chicken breasts 1 onion 1⁄2 cup dried apricots, chopped Baharat spice mix (see happychildcsa.com for recipe) 1⁄4 cup olive oil 2 cloves of garlic, minced 1 tbsp of parsley,finely chopped 1 tbsp of mint, finely chopped plus

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