In Brussels (the Belgian city, not the sprouts), EU officials
have decided to lift the ban on crooked, bent, or twisted perfectly-edible fruit and vegetables. For the past 20 years, 100 pages of regulations have required that produce be uniform in appearance, and sold without any odd curves.
But not all fruit is exempt from standards of beauty — appearance regulations for apples, strawberries, citrus fruit, kiwi, lettuce, pears, peaches, nectarines, sweet peppers, table grapes, and tomatoes will still be on the books, although each country can decide whether they want to enforce them.
I give my pup baby
carrots as well as some
pumpkin, and these bunnies really seem to enjoy this lettuce treat – what fruits or veggies do you feed your pampered pals?
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Last weekend, I attended a collective canning event. Sponsored by
Fallen Fruit, an activist group that promotes the planting of public fruit trees, the
public fruit jam was a free, communal jam-making session where participants shared fruit and jam-making tips.
I arrived with empty jars and lots of plums, and left with new friends, half a dozen jars of different kinds of jam, and the know-how to make fruit preserves.
A coworker and I recently got into a discussion about eating
pomegranates. I grew up eating the juicy pulp surrounding each pomegranate seed, and then spitting out its remains, but she loves eating the entire seed and can't imagine going through the hassle of spitting them out. What about you?
We know that apples are in season, and we can even
identify one variety from the next, but how do you use apples? They're delicious
raw and equally tasty cooked down to
butter. The versatile fruit adds crunch to salads and classically fills a pie.
When the produce bins brim with
Fall bounty, I love to swap out the tomatoes on my sammies for sliced
apple. Together with melted cheese, the slightly sweet, slightly tart fruit makes for a hearty autumnal meal.
Though apple and cheddar is always a safe bet, last night I whipped up a grilled ham and cheese with one of my favorite indulgences: smoked gouda.
We're well into pear season, and if it wasn't obvious to you already,
pears — much like
apples — come in many different shapes and colors. Can you tell one from the other? I'll walk you through the different varieties of pears and their differences in taste, texture, and flavor.
Now that the new season is well underway, I'm going nuts here over
Fall produce. That, of course, includes my year-round favorite, the apple. You may eat one a day to keep the doctor away, but can you identify the fruit's many varieties?
