Forum provides insight on agritourism Nov 15, 2009
Fruit available for picking include cherries, apricots, nectarines, peaches, plums, pears, apples, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries and currants. The farm market sells a large assortment of fruits and vegetables, gift items, pies, cider, doughnuts, breads and cookies. (Catskill Daily Mail, NY)
Homemade mincemeat the only way to go Nov 9, 2009
8 ounces Zante currants ... Instructions: In a large bowl, combine the apples, suet, raisins, currants, sultanas, chopped candied orange and lemon peels, almonds, lemon zest and juice, sugar, allspice, nutmeg, cinnamon and ginger. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Eat Healthy to Combat Stress Oct 5, 2009
Good sources of Vitamin C include citrus fruits, black currants, fresh vegetables and fruit juices are great source of vitamin C.. Including food rich in zinc boosts immune response and promotes wound healing. (Suite101.com)
Easy Low Fat Everyday Bowel Cake Re... Aug 30, 2009
1 cup dried fruit (sultanas or mixed dried fruit or dried chopped apricots or currants or a combination of these). 1 cup sugar. (Suite101.com)
An Alternative to Julia Child Mania: Two Fat Ladies Aug 23, 2009
"Red currants are the most ravishing fruit." "Always use a great deal of ground black pepper." "A full English breakfast is the best cure for hangovers. The liver embraces it.". The other thing that makes the series so oddly time-warped and comforting is the way it focuses as much on the scenery as on the cooking, and the scenery, like the stars, is unabashedly British. (Epicurious.com)
Riptide tragedies: Grandfather dies in unsuccessful attempt to rescue his grandson in Lake Michigan Aug 19, 2009
He added that there had been numerous drownings over the years along the stretch of US-2 and in response to those deaths there is now signage posted along the roadside warning swimmers of the potential for rip-tide currants ... We need to make people more aware of the potential dangers of rip currants there. (Gaylord Herald Times, MI)
Eastern white pine adds to our landscape Aug 16, 2009
The fungus requires two hosts to complete its life cycle, the white pine and Ribes species (gooseberries and currants). During part of the 20th century, there was a huge effort in parts of the United States to eradicate Ribes spp. (Westerly Sun, RI)
Kings and reds run thin at local markets Aug 12, 2009
1/3 cup dried currants ... Add chard, currants, 1/3 cup almonds, and nutmeg. (Anchorage Daily News)
The time is ripe to get outdoors and pick some fruit Aug 11, 2009
Four species of currants, high-bush cranberries and rose hips abound in forests among birch, aspen, spruce or hemlocks. Currants grow on bushes with leaves like those found on maples. (Anchorage Daily News)
Louisa naturalist takes people on a tour of treats that can be found in the great outdoors Aug 11, 2009
Elderberries, gooseberries which had dried into currants, and hickory nuts were among the foods Dice turned up while foraging. She said the hickory nut sometimes contains a small, edible grub which is very sanitary because it has spent its life inside the nut. (Muscatine Journal, IO)
Pushing limits,saving lives Jul 30, 2009
We had munched on wax currants and other edibles ... Once the sun rose and everyone was up, we headed out to dig up a dinners worth of bitterroot and to learn about other edible plants such as mustard, Hookers onion and currants, which we munched on as we came across them. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Coastal meandering Jul 19, 2009
In the meadows everything is in bloom: sun cups, pink flowering currants, owl s clover, tidy tips, sky lupine, and California poppy. This place is more welcoming and not as exclusive as Bolinas. (Boston Globe)
McAllister: Good fruit, veggie colors Jul 7, 2009
Anthocyanins are responsible for the vibrant colors of ripe blueberries, cherries and black currants. They re also found in rhubarb, red beets, eggplants and plums. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
A step beyond organic farming Jun 28, 2009
In one 50-by-50-foot triangular plot, chestnuts grow with apples, hazelnuts, Siberian peas, currants, comfrey, irises, daffodils and rose hips. This spring, morel mushrooms popped up there, too. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Wine of the Week Jun 2, 2009
Fleshy aromas of black currants and stewed prunes with a lovely warm mouth feel of silky spicy flavours of dark berry fruit, which glide gently towards the soft tannins on the finish. Enjoy with a hearty waterblommetjie and lamb stew or on its own and remember to buy a few bottles to age as you won't be disappointed. (iAfrica.com)
Copper River salmon here for holiday weekend May 20, 2009
2 Greenhouse in Eagle River can help you scratch your gardening itch with 20 varieties of herbs in six-packs and 4-inch pots, northern climate tomatoes, several varieties of chili peppers and a number of berry and fruit options, including, apple and cherry trees, raspberries, strawberries, currants, gooseberries, saskatoons, sea buckthorns and cranberries. Visit the greenhouse seven days a week or stop by the South Anchorage Farmers Market on Saturday, where Mile 5. (Anchorage Daily News)
In search of rhubarb May 14, 2009
He and his wife grow asparagus, sour cherries, red currants and raspberries. Not rhubarb. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Farmers market opens Saturday with early produce Apr 29, 2009
Berry and fruit options include: strawberries, red raspberries, gold raspberries, blueberries, lingonberries, bear berries, currants, rhubarb and apple trees. All farmers probably echo what Bean said: "Field prep is going well, providing we don't get any snow again, like we did last year. ...The geese were late arriving to the Valley this year. We're hoping that isn't a sign of a cold, late spring.". (Anchorage Daily News)
Oxalate's and Pain Apr 20, 2009
Tea, Chocolate milk, Cocoa, Wheat germ, Wheat bran , Sweet potatoes, Soybeans, Fruitcake, Beans, Beetroot, Celery, Chives, Cucumbers, Eggplant, Green peppers, Leeks, Peanut butter, Chocolate, Berries, Tomato soup, Currants, Vegetable soup, Marmalade. What If I Need To Take Calcium Supplements. (Suite101.com)
Organic wines offer flavor, value Apr 11, 2009
This organic port is deep ruby red, and bursts with flavors of plums, raspberries and blueberries, with hints of strawberries and black currants that evolve into coffee and other earthy aromas ... This is full of flavors of black cherries, currants, plums and spices. (Dayton Business Journal, OH)
Concrete jungle to garden bliss Apr 2, 2009
"It will let filtered light through without being as dense as a hedge." Between two of the bamboos went a pair of pink-flowered currants (Ribes sanguineum), a deciduous shrub with delicate clusters of flowers that grows to about 6 feet tall and actually likes clay soil. For medium-height interest, there was smoke bush (Cotinus 'Grace'), named for its frothy sprays of pinkish-purple flowers. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Average Berry Plant Yields Mar 10, 2009
Currants, Red (Ribes rubrum) Currants grow best where the plants receive some afternoon shade but need sun in the earliest part of the day. Grow currants in clay soil which has been amended with compost. (Suite101.com)
Papp Mikls Making Jams With Wild... Mar 8, 2009
The family have land, and they grown many of their own fruits black currants, strawberries, raspberries, cranberries, apricots, sour cherries, apples and plums. Many of the other fruits are collected from the wild when they are in season elder berries, rose hips, wild rose leaves and nettles, for example. (Suite101.com)
Eating By Color Mar 2, 2009
A Rainbow of Health Benefits. The pigments contained in produce, the component that gives each item its color, actually helps the body in its own unique way. (Suite101.com)
Easy way restaurants can buy into farm-fresh food Feb 25, 2009
Now about 20 farms supply eight businesses with everything from beets and carrots to black currants. Swanson hopes to add cheese, poultry, eggs and meat down the road. (Helena Independent Record)
Grow your own fruit Feb 21, 2009
(If you have only shade, you'll have to settle for shade-tolerant bushes such as gooseberries and currants. . (Sioux City Journal)
Slow-cooker pairs with pasta for warming mid-winter meal Feb 11, 2009
The rich reduction goes into the slow cooker, along with a can of diced tomatoes, capers, currants, basil and parsley ... One-half cup currants ... Add to slow cooker the tomatoes and juices, capers, currants, basil and parsley. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Atlantans get blogging about food Feb 7, 2009
Tami Hardeman s Brussels Sprouts With Walnuts and Currants. BLOGGERS' RECIPES. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
