It’s fall, apples are overflowing the markets, and it’s a great time to make applesauce. I didn’t realize just how easy or tasty homemade applesauce is, until I was inspired by Mixed Greens’ home made applesauce recipe.
I made a couple quarts of applesauce today, and it took about 10 minutes of my time, and about [...]
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Part of the series of weird food, this citrus fruit was found at Whole Foods:
It looks somewhat out of place next to the grapefruits, oranges and pears! Supposedly, Buddha’s Hand is one of the oldest citrus fruits from Asia, this fruit is used only for the zest and it’s strong fragrant aroma — and there [...]
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This is first in a series of “weird foods”. These peach “twins” grew on our peach tree. They grew this way because the pollinated fruit blossoms were so close together, and I didn’t know I should thin the new fruits — both so the peaches could grow bigger and so there wouldn’t be double peaches [...]
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Today was a big food day. This last week, my SO had family in town, so we didn’t do a whole lot of cooking. And I’d been out of town the previous 2 weekends, so the cooking I had done was quick and easy. Today, I had a lot of food enjoying [...]
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Today I picked the very first strawberries from the strawberry patch in our yard.
It’s incredible what an amazing taste you get from fruit ripened in the sun (and not in the fruit truck on it’s way to the store). These little beauties were juicy and sweet.
Strawberries grow well in Colorado. This is the first time [...]
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I haven’t been doing a whole lot of cooking lately, but I’m still eating! And, more to the point of this post, drinking.
I went through Canon City a few weeks ago and picked up some DiNardo’s juice. This is a little shop off Highway 50 in Canon City and it’s worth stopping by [...]
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Step 2: weekly shopping
Next to the politically correct labeled ugly fruit was something I’ve never seen before, “pummelo.” The nice guy I asked, cut me a sample of it. They look like a HUGE grapefruit and taste like a cross between an orange and a grapefruit. Their rind is quite spongy — sort of [...]
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