At 2:56 pm, Monday, 20 May 2013, an F5 category tornado touched down west of Newcastle, Oklahoma, and headed toward the town of Moore. The tornado stayed on the ground for 39 minutes and covered a …
Fresh Spinach Lasagna
INGREDIENTS 4 cups fresh spinach, well-washed, de-stemmed, and roughly chopped 1 onion, chopped 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 can crushed tomatoes (32-ounce) 2 tablespoons tomato paste …
Easy Roasted Baby Potatoes
INGREDIENTS Baby or new potatoes Olive oil or Earth Balance Malt vinegar or rice wine vinegar Sea Salt PREPARATION Preheat oven to 400 °F. Scrub potatoes gently, leaving skins …
Kohlrabi, Beet, and Apple Slaw
Adapted from janssushibar.com INGREDIENTS 1-2 kohlrabi, peeled and quartered 2 beets, peeled and quartered 1 apple, cored and quartered ¼ cup mayonnaise or veganaise 1 tablespoon …
Roasted Cauliflower “Croutons”
Recipe by The FruitGuys INGREDIENTS 2 cups cauliflower florets, cut into bite-size pieces One tablespoon olive oil ¼ teaspoon salt Pinch of pepper PREPARATION Preheat oven to …
Spring Toastie with Tarragon Aioli
INGREDIENTS 1 bunch asparagus, trimmed 4 leaves of lettuce 4 very thin slices of onion, ⅛-inch thick or thinner 4 slices tomato, about ¼-inch thick 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 …
Spring Toastie with Herbed Goat Cheese
INGREDIENTS ½ cup radishes, very thinly sliced (⅛-inch thick, or thinner if you have a mandoline slicer) 1 cup lettuce, torn into large pieces ½ cup onion, diced 2 tablespoons olive …
Spring Toastie with Parsley Aioli
INGREDIENTS 2 small or one large zucchini, trimmed and thinly sliced lengthwise about 1/4-inch thick 4 thin slices of onion, about 1/8-inch thick 1 cup carrots, trimmed and thinly sliced …
New Family Farm
New Family Farm of Sebastopol, California, was one of six farms awarded grants in April 2013 from The FruitGuys Community Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of Community Initiatives. An outgrowth of …
Feeling and Seeding Spring
Why is it that in spring we have that hankering to get our hands in the dirt? That urge to plan and to plant; to go to the nursery and load up our wagons with little pots of promise for a great summer …
Concord Grapes
Young Vitis labrusca aka the Fox Grape grew up on a farm in Concord MA in the 1850s. Hitching the rails to Hollywood and then shooting to stardom in TV-land under the moniker "Concord" this grape …
Concorde Pear
Pears with necks as lovely as Audrey Hepburn. Concordes combine the crispness of Conference pears and the juiciness of the Comice. A fairly new variety bred in England, these pears have a brilliant …
Comice Pear
The Doyenne Du Comice was developed in France in the mid-1800s and is widely grown on the west coast. It can be recognized by its bulbous shape and dimple underneath. It has a green color when firm …
Clementine
The Clementine is undoubtedly a darling. Developed by Father Clement Rodier from a sweet tangerine and the somewhat bitter Seville orange. A zipper peel with few seeds and tangy taste. The Clementine …
Chojuro Asian Pear
Ripe Chojuro Asian pears are known for their delicious, butterscotch flavor. Asian pears are sometimes mistaken for apples because of their crispness and round shape. …
Chinese Honey Mandarin
Also known as Ponkan. One of the oldest and most popular mandarin tangerines thought to have originated in India. Ponkan is distinctive for its oblate shape, often having a short "collar" or neck. …
Cherry Tomato
Nature's candy. Cherry tomatoes have 23 mg Vitamin C per cup, and about one calorie per tomato. The free radical fighting antioxidant lycopene is tomato's gift to you. Cooking concentrates the …
Benton Cherries
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. …
The Spring Forager
Just off one of Washington, D.C.'s busiest interstates, a group of George Mason University students has gathered in a lush nature preserve, armed with collection bags, cameras, and some of the area’s …
Charentais Melon
A melon with many devotees like Fruit Detective David Karp who called it "the best melon in the world." Alexander Dumas was so passionate about the Charentais that he donated 300 of his books to the …
