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    All About Dried Beans — Growing and Cooking

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    Dried beans are cooked and served in many ways–in salads, soups, casseroles, stews, and chilis. Dried beans can be served alone or as a side dish with meat or pasta or rice. Dried beans are commonly boiled and then sometimes baked or refried. Dried beans are beans whose seeds are dried and shelled after reaching […] More

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    Tasty Ways to Serve Sunflowers

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    Sunflower seeds have a pleasant, nutty flavor and a crunchy texture that makes them a welcome and simple addition sprinkled on salads, sandwiches, vegetable dishes, and yogurt as well as mixed into stuffings and granola. Ground sunflower seeds can be combined with flour to make cakes, cookies, muffins, pancakes, and bread. Lightly toasted sunflower seeds […] More

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    Seven Ways to Cook and Serve Asparagus

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    Fresh and quick, serve raw or cooked asparagus in salads or as a side dish during spring. Cut fresh raw asparagus into one-inch lengths with kitchen scissors. Then add them to the greens salad to add a bit of substance. Choose firm, plump, straight, round asparagus spears with tips that are tight and compact. Give […] More

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    Ways to Serve Mandarin Orange – Tangerine

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    Mandarin oranges are mostly small, easy to peel, and perfect for snacking out of hand. You can choose a mandarin for a sweet treat or a mandarin for a sweet-tart treat. Mandarins can be sectioned and added to fruit, green, chicken or seafood salads. They can be juiced to flavor sorbets, marinades, and dessert sauces, […] More

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    Ways to Serve Lemons

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    Lemons are used to flavor both sweet and savory dishes. They are too tart to be eaten alone. Lemons are rarely eaten raw because they are too tart for out-of-hand eating. Use lemons to flavor everything from salads to fruit desserts. Ways to serve lemons Perhaps the three most popular lemons are the Eureka, Lisbon, […] More

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    Ways to Serve Kiwifruit

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    The flavor of kiwifruit is all kiwifruit: sweet tart with hints of citrus, strawberry, pineapple, and melon. Kiwifruit flavor is unique. Kiwifruit is a great breakfast fruit. Halve the kiwi crosswise and simply scoop it out and eat it chilled and fresh with a small spoon. A peeled kiwi can be served halved or quartered […] More

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    Ways to Serve Grapefruit

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    Grapefruits in general are dived into natural types: there are common white or yellow-fleshed grapefruits, and there are pigmented or pale pink to ruby red grapefruits. There are also seeded and seedless grapefruits. Beyond flesh color and seeds, you can generally say that seeded grapefruits are more flavorful than seedless. Grapefruits have a sharper flavor […] More

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    Ways to Use Limes

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    Limes, lime juice, and lime peels can be used in marmalade, jam, sorbet, chutney, pickles, salad dressing, and desserts. Limes can be important additions in sauces, fish and meat dishes, and punches and cocktails. Lime juice in small amounts accentuates the flavor of other foods. In any recipe that calls for a lemon, lime can […] More

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    Ways to Serve Pluots

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    You only need to list a few of the varietal names of pluots—’Flavor King’, ‘Flavor Queen’, ‘Flavor Prince’, ‘Flavor Supreme’, ‘Flavor Heart’, ‘Flavorosa’, ‘Flavorella’, ‘Flavor Grenade’—to understand the most outstanding attribute of these hybrids between plums and apricots. Pluots have the same smooth skin as plums but are generally larger. Like plums, their skins and […] More

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    Ways to Serve Almonds

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    There are two types of almonds: one sweet and one bitter. The sweet almond is the one you will use in the kitchen. The bitter almond is strongly flavored and is used to flavor extracts after being processed to remove a toxic acid. Sweet almonds can be found blanched or not, whole, sliced or slivered, […] More

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    Ways to Serve Pineapple Guava – Feijoa

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    A flavor somewhere between pineapple and strawberry: this is how you might describe the pineapple guava, also called feijoa (fay-YOH-ah). Feijoa or pineapple guava is a fruit shrub native to South America. This is a high-altitude South American native that has an oval fruit about 3 inches (7 cm) long. It has a granular cream-colored […] More

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    Ways to Serve Avocado

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    Avocados have a rich buttery textured flesh with a slightly nutty flavor and can be eaten as a vegetable or a fruit. Avocadoes are usually eaten raw. They do not cook well. Favorite avocado recipe Avocados With Seafood Avocado flavor partners Avocados pair well with chiles, cilantro, crabmeat, grapefruit, lime, shrimp, tomato, tropical fruits, turn, […] More