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Meadowfoam Honey
Honey
Tonic Syrup
florian candied cherries
it's the perfect time to start making your fruitcake! From Buzzed Cherry bombs to chocolate cherry fudge, candied cherries have a wonderful place in recipes!
scarlet runner beans
native to north america, this fiery red plant has a long history for its succulent pods as food. fun to see and fun to eat, beans, beans, beans!
pinto beans
a great bean for refried or in your next summer chile recipe. this "painted" bean is pretty to have around waiting for your next meal.
green split peas
grown here in the northwest these are one awesome pea! split pea soup is the first dish that comes to mind and either hot or cold it is a great late in the day summer meal. a great pnw farmer's co-op food!
lentils with cannellini beans recipe
This is a great stand-by recipe. You can use any type of lentils - depending on what look you want. We use beluga lentils often because they cook so quickly, but this recipe would be very pretty with red, french green, or orange lentils -- to add color to the plate. Just alter the lentil cook time, depending on the type and size of lentil.
ginger drinking vinegar
ginger drinking vinegar is always a hit. with just the right amount of punch along with the vinegar, this "sipping" drink is a treat.
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Amazing New Honeys
We pick seven!
The best part of our job, or at least one of the best, is all the ingredients that show up on our doorstep just waiting to be eaten! Now, we do see a lot of foods that don't fit our needs and we do see some things that just plain are awful.... And almost always, when someone sends us a lot of different products, (usually a warning) we might find one we like. Never, ever, have we ever wanted everything they have sent to us! Well, we got a case of honey a couple of weeks ago and I thought, why would anyone send us a whole case of the same thing?
Well, it turns out it was 12 different honeys and all are fantastic! We want every single one! So when we had to cut them down to a manageable number it was a tough one! Here our first Magnificent Seven choices. You can't go wrong with any of them, in our opinion, and they all taste distinctly different from other honeys on the planet!
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Did we say Tasty?
Hard to describe how great these taste!
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Northwest Meadowfoam.
Meadowfoam honey is created by bees from the wild Meadowfoam (Limnanthes Alba) herb which blooms in the valleys and hillsides of Southern Oregon and Northern California. Similar to Black Button Sage for gathering pollen, the weather conditions must be exactly right for the Meadowfoam to bloom, and the bees to create this amazing, delicate, mind boggling unusual honey.
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California Buckeye.
Not so interesting by name, the taste is shockingly, well, tasty! California Buckeye is also known as the Horse-Chestnut tree. So it's not surprising that the honey has a similar dark, molasses-y flavor and texture as the European Chestnut honeys. The beautiful white clustered spires of the buckeye blooms come early in the spring. And although plentiful in the Sierra foothills and Coastal range foothills, the conditions must be just right, and the beekeeper must put his bees in just the right place, to produce this fabulous true mono-floral honey.
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Southwest Mesquite.
If you think it's going to be spicy, you would be wrong, it is after all a honey! Velvet mesquite, is a small to medium-sized tree, that is actually a legume adapted to a dry, desert climate. A burst of spring rain can transform the arid Arizona landscape and the indigenous mesquite tree into a dramatic rainbow of life - especially the flower of the Southwest Mesquite tree.
This creamy-style honey is made by busy bees when the mesquite tree blooms in the spring. Although mostly mesquite, it might have hints of Cats Claw, Prickly Pear and Acacia.
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California Coriander.
Created by bees in the Sacramento Valley of California -- this honey is nothing like the wild European coriander honeys I have tasted before. Spicy with cardamom and ginger, with a hint of lime, it has a uniqueness and kick that will not disappoint. Coriander is used extensively in California as an inter-crop plant to help control aphid infestations, especially in the lettuce fields. When inter-cropped with the lettuce and allowed to flower, they attract beneficial insects such as hoverflies, the larvae of which eat up to 150 aphids per day before they mature into flying adults. Coriander is the seed of the cilantro plant.
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High Plains Sweet Clover.
This is not your everyday clover honey, not by a long shot. Collected and made by bees in the high plains, (over 5,000 feet up) out west in Wyoming and South Dakota. There, the luscious, sweet clover grows in abundance in fields and along stream beds, and the bees love the yellow and white blossoms, some of which stand at the ends of three foot tall leafy clover stems. That is some healthy clover!
This is truly what clover honey is supposed to taste like. Not like what you get in the squeezy bear, which, heads up, is probably not even honey. You will not be disappointed with this liquidy-golden nectar. Selected by Food & Wine magazine as the best Clover Honey available anywhere!
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Mexican Coffee Blossom.
Coffee is cultivated in abundance in the highlands of southern Mexico and with the dense tree growth comes dense and bountiful spring blooms. A perfect place for the bees to nosh and create this amazing honey. Dark and liquidy, this bold-flavored honey has hints of licorice and a light, sweet finish.
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Florida White Tupelo.
Tupelo honey is made from the blossoms of the Ogeche tupelo gum tree (Nyssa aquatica.) The tupelo gum tree grows in flooded forest areas in Southeast United States such as Florida, but particularly in the Gulf Coast areas. This honey is mainly produced commercially in areas along the Apalachicola and Ochlockonee river basins in Florida. Beekeepers keep beehives along the river swamps on platforms or floats during the short tupelo blooming season in order to produce certified, monofloral tupelo honey.
White tupelo honey is expensive to produce because, like all single varietal honeys, care must be taken by the beekeepers to clean the combs at the right time right when the white tupelo gum tree blossoms, so that only the nectar from these blossoms is collected. It is a liquid honey, and because of its sugar structure, it won't granulate or crystallize
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Small Batch Tonic
Jack Rudy Cocktail Company
A long time ago, my parents used to stop at a shop in the town of Belmont and pick up Schweppes Tonic Water (est 1771) and Bitter Lemon (est 1957). The shop is long gone, but the memory is still strong. It was a special treat way back when.
An imported product from England, it was Schweppes that helped shape my buds for how bubbly water should be and I thought the Bitter Lemon was the cat's meow. Most tonic waters today are nothing like the Schweppes of old.
Today, is not about the demise of our food, but the resurgence of tonic. (I am hoping it is not coinciding with a resurgence of malaria!) Not only a known, effective cure for malaria, quinine, the unique ingredient in tonic, has anti-inflammatory properties that can help with arthritis and lupus. It's the quinine that makes the bitterness in Bitter Lemon, or the truly unpleasant taste when quinine taken straight up that we have come to hate and love.
The modern “discovery” of quinine happened in the 1600’s by the Spaniards while conquering the Incas....
Read more about this perfect addition to your gin and tonic here!
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The Giant Reed Avocados!
Recent update! Looks like the Reeds will be ready way, way early! Estimate is perhaps 30 to 60 days early this year! So please get your orders in ASAP so we can let Peter know how much to expect this year. Not only will they be early, harvest may happen over 2 weeks, unlike previous years of many weeks!
Chef's Pick
This olive oil is always a crowd pleaser with unique notes and tones that make it versatile and desired! A multiple Gold Medal winner!
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| This Weeks Recipes - You can store your recipes in your wish list online! And then access the recipes from just about anywhere. |
Summer Fruit Slaw Recipe
I adapted this recipe from the July 2011 Bon Appetit magazine, it was extremely tasty. Since we have the best curry powder on the planet (Madras Curry Powder), I thought it would be a great recipe for Fourth of July.
Avocado & Strawberry Ceviche Recipe
Ceviche is a great summer dish. Originally from Latin America, it consists of raw fish which is thinly sliced or cubed, and then marinated in citrus juice which "cooks" the fish. Served chilled, it makes for a great summer starter. I think the combination of the sweet strawberries, the buttery avocado and the sour marinated white fish sounds fabulous.
Wild Mushroom Risotto Recipe
Yogurt Marinated Grilled Chicken Recipe
Easy and perfect for the hot summer nights!
Onions glazed with Honey Recipe
This is a garnish for roasted meats or birds, served with sauteed potatoes and a comforting red wine from a sunny place, a Chateauneuf-du-Pape, for example.
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