As Doug and I prepare for vacation, we stop buying groceries one week ahead of time and use up whatever ingredients we have in the…
Browsing Category Fruits
The Florida Pomegranate?
Everyone associates Florida with citrus groves – the state’s oranges and grapefruit are famous nationwide, maybe even world-wide. Our license plates read “Sunshine State” and depict the ever-famous…
Grape-Orzo-Pistachio Salad
Is it just me? Or are there others who don’t like to eat grapes before they’ve been blessed? Somehow it just seems wrong to consume grapes…
Yogurt with Nuts and Fruit
Have you had a chance to make our recipe for homemade yogurt? or Sita Jebelian’s microwave oven method for making yogurt? No? It doesn’t matter. You can still…
Flavors of Autumn
Pomegranate and Pear Salad Besides pumpkins, autumn has an abundance of other fantastic flavors. Two that come to mind are pomegranates and pears. Here’s a…
Medical breakthrough: How an Armenian fruit may save the world
Pomegranates, beloved by Armenians, have been getting marvelous press all over the world in recent years for their extraordinary health-boosting properties in warding off heart disease,…
Watermelon Revisited
After recently purchasing a whopper of a watermelon, so juicy and delicious, we thought it appropriate to relive our love of this wonderful fruit. Read on… ******************************************** If…
Good News- Found quince! Bad News- It’ll cost you!
If you’ve been reading about our quest for quince, you know we found some – after a long and arduous search. GOOD NEWS: My local…
Finding quince: An Armenian culinary quest
My Candied Quince Preserves Nobody ever said that finding quince would be easy. Most supermarket produce managers don’t even know what they are, so how…
Quince: The confoundingly delicious Armenian fruit – and – a recipe for Hyvah, a quince and lamb stew
Have you ever taken a bite out of a quince? You’d remember if you did. Like olives, quince is not edible when first picked. It…