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Recipe: Farro Salad with Pixie Tangerines, Purple Asparagus, Spring Onions, Black Olives, & Sheep’s Milk Cheese

Farro salad

from Mario Hernandez of The Order of The Fat Tongue Ingredients: 2 cups of fully cooked farro 6 tangerines, peeled and sliced thin into disks 1 bunch of oven roasted asparagus, sliced thin 3 oven roasted spring onion, slice thin 1/4

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Fruit & News of the Week: April 10th

THIS WEEK’S FRUIT: Pixie Tangerines Churchill-Brennies Orchard, Ojai, CA Pixie tangerines are a late season variety that begin ripening in March and April. Their tough skin gives way to fruit with a very robust flavor. Golden Nugget Mandarins Abounding Harvest

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Recipe: Citrus and Radish Salad

Ingredients 2 Navel or Valencia oranges 4 tangerines 8 radishes, thinly sliced 3 red spring onions or half a red onion 4 tablespoons fresh mint or cilantro 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil sea salt and fresh ground black pepper

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Fruit and News: Week of March 10th 2013

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This Week’s Fruit Hass Avocados Rainbow Eco Farm, Rainbow,CA or Las Palmalitas, Carpinteria, 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

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Week of May 8th 2011

CSA Box with blueberries, strawberries, grapefruit, tangelos, tangerines, avocados and apples

Next week we’ll be picking the first stone fruit of 2011, a new variety of peach called “Super Z”.

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