Cleaning and Preparing Herbs
A step-by-step tutorial for cleaning and preparing herbs. If don't enjoy eating gritty lettuce or herbs, this method is one that you will want to learn! If don't enjoy eating gritty lettuce or herbs, this method is one that you will want to ... [... more]
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Cubing Fruits and Vegetables
Once you are comfortable with the cubing technique, you can cut a wide variety of fruits and vegetables like eggplant, zucchini, pears, and apples into identical-sized cubes. Test your cubing skills making a hearty pot of soup! Try this recipe: A ... [... more]
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Baking Fruit Pies
There's a fruit pie for every season: strawberry-rhubarb for spring, cherry in summer, pear in the fall, and apple in winter. Baking fruit pies is a rather straightforward technique, but a few tips can help to make your pies come out looking and ... [... more]
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Holiday Baking: Fruitcakes
When wrapped in cloth and foil, a fruitcake may be kept for months or even years. Liquor-based cakes may be stored several months in a cool place. Cakes made without liquor may be kept in the refrigerator for short-term storage or freezer for ... [... more]
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Rhubarb: The Pie Plant
Rhubarb is considered a vegetable--only the stalks of the plant that are edible--but it's most often treated as a fruit. Like fresh cranberries, rhubarb is almost unbearably tart on its own and is rarely eaten raw. Apart from pies, tarts, crisps ... [... more]
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How to Grow Lettuce
Can't face another boring salad? Learn how to grow your own bumper crop of lettuce...there's more out there than iceberg! Can't face another boring salad? Grow your own bumper crop of lettuce--there's more out there than iceberg. You can make ... [... more]
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Grow a Kitchen Garden
If you're a first time gardener, make a modest plan and leave room for expansion once you gain more experience. Most vegetables need a full 6 hours of sunlight a day. Morning light is preferable, because it dries off the dew, reducing the risk of ... [... more]
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The Lovable Leek
Peel back its layers and discover why this cousin to the onion is a worldwide favorite. Braised, steamed, sautéed, poached or pureed, a sturdy-looking leek cooks down to velvety sweetness. Beloved for its mild flavor and versatility, the leek has . [... more]
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Candying Fruits
Delicious in cakes, cookies, for garnishes or as a snack, candied fruit is worth the effort. Candying fruit is the relatively simple process of infusing fruits or citrus peels in a sugar syrup. Grapefruit peel, kumquats, orange and lemon rind, ... [... more]
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Asparagus Aspirations
Despite a reputation for being finicky, asparagus isn't as tricky to grow as you may think. Asparagus is one of the healthiest and tastiest veggies: A 5-ounce serving provides 60 percent of your daily needs for folic acid, a B vitamin linked to ... [... more]
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Asparagus Tips
Asparagus is one of our favorite harbingers of spring. These delectable stalks with their vivid color and delicate flavor are good hot or cold, dressed up or down. Asparagus comes in several sizes, ranging in diameter from thinner than a drinking ... [... more]
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Fall and Winter Salads
Apples are plentiful during the autumn months and a wide variety should be available in a market near you. When choosing apples, look to buy "salad apples," which are sweet and crisp. Popular salad apples include Red Delicious, Fuji, and [... more]
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