Butter No-Softer Shortcut For Oatmeal Cookies
A home baker explains butter oversoftening ruined Side Dish raisin cookies. Leave butter on the counter only until a fingerprint stays, not until it dents through. Use small cubes or a rolling pin to achieve pliable butter without over softening.
Rush Bowls Introduces Fruit Packed Oatmeal Menu
Rush Bowls ups breakfast oats with frozen pureed fruit mixed into granola packs. Five combos include Oasis with pineapple and coconut milk and Power with berries bananas and whey protein. Each bowl costs 5.99 and a store locator is at rushbowls com with purchases via icecreamsource com.
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Chili varieties and sourcing from Marx Foods for dried peppers
Marx Foods supplies 25 dried chili varieties from aji amarillo to cascabel and puya for home cooks. A mole style sauce blends tangy aji amarillo and dusky cascabel with almonds and chocolate. Four ounce packs start at $19 on marxfoods.com.
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Marx Foods
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Apple picking season boosts local orchards and treats
Area orchards invite visitors to pick their own apples as Wilson's Orchard in Iowa City markets more than 120 varieties plus turnovers cider and pies. Allen's Orchard in Marion notes 39 varieties on about 800 trees with upcoming bakery items and Annie's Apples at markets. Honey Creek Acres Swisher grows many varieties with plans for a bakery next year and cider vinegar debut. Orchardists stress apples must ripen fully and may not look perfect yet taste great.
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Angela Holmes
Owa City
Wilson’s Orchard
Orchard Lane
Iowa City
Paul Rasch
Wilson’s
Rasch
Wilsonsapples
Honey Creek Acres
Swisher View Dr
Swisher
Honeycreekacres.com
Allen’s Orchard
N. 10Th St
Marion
Allensorchard.net
Steve
Mary Ann Gensicke
Ann Ohrt
Annie
Cedar Rapids
Chris Gensicke
Chri
Swisher View
SW. Swisher
Mike Pilarczyk
Sherry
Honey Creek
Pilarczyk
Apple Chipotle Salsa Recipe
A fresh salsa combines chopped apples and red onion with green peppers and a chipotle garlic lime dressing. Mix the apple mix with the spicy dressing, season to taste, and refrigerate up to three days.
Wind storm devastates Applecart Orchard and surrounds
A July 11 storm with winds over 110 mph battered Tama and Benton counties. Applecart Orchard owner Tom Lunkley reports 300 to 400 trees uprooted, all apples lost, plus a ruined barn and greenhouses. The Garrison station and Braille School roof damaged. volunteers urged to help clean debris while the orchard plans to reopen next year. Local family notes bittersweet memories and a recipe tied to the harvest.
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Benton
Vinton
Garrison
Iowa Braille and Light Saving School
Tom Lunkley
Linkley
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