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Sat, Jun 09, 2007

Fruit and Recipes

Posted at 7:58 pm MDT to Technology

I love fruit. Today at the Farmers' Market the cherries were just coming into season.

And Nanette had plenty of strawberries. She grows an heirloom variety that produces small flavorful berries, so much better than the big bland plastic ones in most supermarkets.

The cherries are in the refrigerator, for tomorrow. The strawberries have been eaten already: they were too good, and too fragile, to save.

I also got some of the last rhubarb for the season from Nanette's farm. I tried adding some to my Mom's apple cake recipe a few weeks ago and it turned out quite well. I want to do that again before the rhubarb is all gone. Rhubarb is very juicy so I will try a trick Nanette's daughter Rowan suggested: adding a little tapioca to the rhubarb to stabilize some of the juice.

Other things I brought home from market were sugar snap peas (which should have been for supper, but I filled up on the strawberries) mushrooms and onions (which will go into a risotto with some organic chicken I got at the Market previously) and onion greens (which Dinah Kitty loves to chew on, for some reason).

I may put some of the peas in the risotto, if there are any left by the time I make it.

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