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Curried Quinoa & Stone Fruit Salad

By Tanya Milosevich on

This recipe is great to make in advance for an easy work lunch. Prep (and keep separate) your quinoa and dressing the night before, then assemble with fruit and nuts at home or the office for a tasty, …

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Less Time to Chill

By Pia Hinckle on

Cherries are finicky trees. They don’t like it when it gets too hot, when there’s not enough rain, and when it doesn’t stay cold enough during the winter. For the last few winters, California’s …

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How can I tell when my stone fruit is ripe?

By The FruitGuys on

Q: How can I tell when my stone fruit is ripe (or ready to eat)? A: To protect stone fruit during delivery, such as peaches, plums, nectarines, and apricots, we send it to you on the slightly …

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Ten Tasty Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About the Peach

By Seth Wright on

Peaches have been on my mind lately. They are my favorite fruit, and they grow bountifully and beautifully in the Capay Valley. Many of our farms here cultivate more than one variety, and I feel …

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Profile: Olson Family Farms

By Heidi Lewis on

Olson Family Farms in California’s Central Valley is truly a family affair. Five generations have lived on the farmstead and worked the land since John and Anna Olson emigrated from Sweden in 1888. …

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Poached Vanilla Peaches

By Rebecca Dienner on

Recipe by Rebecca Dienner for The FruitGuys INGREDIENTS 2 peaches, ripe (fragrant) but not too soft 2 cups sweet white or dessert wine 1/4 cup maple syrup, agave, or sugar (see Cook’s …

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Sour Cherries

By FruitGuys Staff on

Pucker up! Traditionally reserved for pie bakers and jam makers, Sour Cherries give their fresh tart-sweet burst of flavor a try before you cook "em up. Nutrient-rich sour cherries have even more …

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Dapple Dandy Pluot

By The FruitGuys on

The Dapple Dandy Pluot is a sweet plum-apricot flavored pluot with beautifully dappled skin. These pluots contain fiber and complex sugars for sustained energy, and the taste is fantastic. …

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Cucumber-Peach Salad

By Rebecca Dienner on

Recipe by Rebecca Dienner for The FruitGuys INGREDIENTS 2 cups cucumber, halved lengthwise and thinly sliced 2 cups peaches (or stone fruit of choice: nectarines, plums, pluots, apricots, …

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A Little Apricot History

By FruitGuys Staff on

from Good Humus Produce, courtesy of  Capay Valley Farm Shop A combination of Royal and Blenheim Apricots From the Luxemburg Gardens in Paris to England’s Blenheim Palace to the imperiled orchards …

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Lots of Heat Means Good Eats

By Seth Wright on

By Seth Wright, courtesy of  Capay Valley Farm Shop This 2013 has been an unusually hot and dry spring here in the Capay Valley.   The rain, which usually occurs from January until the end March, …

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Benton Cherries

By FruitGuys Staff on

Benton is a registered trademark name for a dark red cherry that ripens the same time as the Bing - "rounda 'bouta bing" you might say. It is a large, sweet cherry. …

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Brooks Cherries: Flavor, Nutrition, and More

By FruitGuys Staff on

Sweet-tart Brooks cherries are ideal for both snacking and baking. Here’s a quick look at their origin story, nutrition profile, and how to best enjoy them. What Is a Brooks Cherry? Brooks …

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Infused Water

By Julie Collins on

Fruit and fresh herbs add zing to the world’s best beverage For a healthy and lo-cal beverage idea, try infusing your drinking water (plain or bubbly) with any number of delicious fruity and herbal …

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Black Plum

By The FruitGuys on

Black and Blue. There's a battle in the fruit department; the fruits are fighting over who has more antioxidant carotenoids. But it is the USDA that says Black Plums are exceptionally high in an assay …

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Bing Cherries

By FruitGuys Staff on

Yeah! Cherries! A fruit so packed with taste and lore, in poems, paintings, and punk rock songs- how we worship this fine little fruit. For many the first cherries are a sign of spring and renewal, …

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Fire Sweet Yellow Nectarine

By The FruitGuys on

The Fire Sweet Yellow Nectarine is a sub-acid (low tartness) honey-flavored clingstone, with an almost all red skin color. It comes from Summer Fire and August Red stock. …

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Jujube

By The FruitGuys on

Pronounced “joo-joo-bee,” the jujube is a small, red, round fruit that, when dried, has a consistency and sweetness similar to dried dates. Dried jujubes are high in vitamins and minerals (especially …

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Angelcot

By The FruitGuys on

What do you get when you cross a cherubic Hummel figurine and an apricot? An Angelcot. Developed by Ross Sanborn, this unique short season apricot is notable for its very pale yellow—almost white …

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Date

By FruitGuys Staff on

Fruit of the Date Palm - from the Greek word for finger dáktulos. The date is one of the most ancient of our cultivated foods. Gift to the gods, indulgence of rajas, and sustenance to nomads - the …

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