Entries tagged with 'pears'
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Serious Beer columnist Maggie Hoffman tosses some arugula with roasted pears, blue cheese, and a homemade walnut-vinaigrette (she says bacon wouldn't hurt either) for a tasty salad on her blog, Pithy and Cleaver....
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Note: On Mondays, one of our various Market Scene correspondents checks in with what's fresh at farmstands, what's coming up, and what you better get while the gettin's good. This week, we hear from SoCal correspondent Leah Greenstein of SpicySaltySweet. Take us to the market, Leah! Carnival Squash at McGrath Family Farms. [Photographs: Leah Greenstein] I'm tired of tomatoes. There. I said it. After two months straight gorging myself on Early Girls and Purple Cherokees, Green Zebras and Sun Golds, I think I've finally had enough tangy-sweet-tomato-goodness to last me until next summer—or at least until January, when I break into my stash of homemade canned heirloom tomatoes for lasagnas and stews. Fortunately, the Los Angeles farmers' markets (and Southern...
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[] There are few things as rewarding and delicious as sinking your teeth into a perfectly ripe pear—sweet and juicy, with that uniquely grainy bite. My mother used to pack pears in my brown sack lunches when I was little, and I vividly remember being the envy of all my peers as I pulled out that magical fruit. Or I'd save my lunchtime pear for an after-school snack, savoring each bite in the Georgia autumn breeze. From the rose family and closely related to the apple and quince, pears are in season from August to October. The most popular varieties are the Bosc, Bartlett, Anjou and Comice, distinguishable by varying skin colors and shapes. Once considered a gift of...
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[Photograph: Central European News] I'd feel funny chomping into the head of one of these Buddha-shaped pears, but they're popular in their home city of Hexia, China. Farmer Gao Xianzhang spent six years perfecting his Buddha pear-making craft, resulting in this season's crop of 10,000 pears, each one grown in its own mold. The price of one of these cute pears? About $8. Related Finally! A Heart-Shaped Watermelon Spherical Is Out: Human-Shaped is In...
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Get an early start on this year's holiday gifts with a pear grown in a bottle. Of course, there's also going to be some "high value" alcohol added to that bottle, but that comes after all the growing and ripening. Ed Gowans, a food and beverage photographer in the Northwest, explains his hobby in great detail; pears grown in bottles is actually a pretty cool idea. It also seems like a good way to keep squirrels, birds, and other wildlife from getting to them, no? Now if I only had a pear tree. (And, why not, a partridge.) Has anyone else tried this with pears or other edibles? The video, after the jump....
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After reading Yotam Ottolenghi's Three Course Dinner in Just Four Tins, which consisted of canned corn, smoked oysters, stewed tomatoes, and pineapple, I couldn't help but try to finagle my own three-course creation using four canned foods and basic pantry items. Typically, I use very few canned goods in my culinary quests, however, should I ever come down with a case of agoraphobia—or perhaps a recession riot leaves my local grocery store empty—I better be prepared to keep up my reputation in the kitchen. For my sanity, let's just assume that I keep the basics at hand, including (but not limited to): a bread or cracker of some sort, garlic, olive oil, butter, salt and pepper. So without further...
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Former dieting guru Susan Powter, (in)famous in the ‘90s for her “Stop the Insanity” catchphrase, is now blogging. Who knew? Here, a weird-ass video in which she extols the virtues of organic pears, complete with strange echo effects and almost pornographic eating....
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To celebrate the fact that I can now wear shorts outside and happily eat fruit again, here are my favorite bilingual singing fruits: Bonus: Same fruits, but singing in Hebrew and Arabic! Boy, they sure get around....
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