Best Food Buys Outdoor Items Are Featured
Area shoppers plan cookouts and picnics for the July 4 weekend with a wide range of produce on offer. Outstanding vegetables include snap beans cabbage iceberg lettuce onions peppers radishes spinach squash cucumbers endive escarole leafy greens and East Coast round potatoes. Sweet corn is rising with new producing areas. Prices stay high for celery carrots and tomatoes while fruits show good value with watermelons cantaloupes bananas peaches. Plums nectarines and grapes are lower this week.
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Tom Piper
Penn State
Escarole
Life Is Sweeter With Low Calorie Fruit Desserts
This article outlines a low calorie fruit dessert approach with a spicy apricot souffle and a mock souffle. It provides steps to prepare spiced apricot juice, chill and serve over mock souffle and to whip a gelatin based aerated mixture into stiff peaks for a light dessert.
How to Detect a Good Watermelon and Local Harvest News
A guide to choosing ripe watermelons notes firm shape even rind and yellow ground spot as signs of sweetness and freshness. Local fruit harvest highlights cherry varieties, blueberries, raspberries and cherries peak this week with meat prices steady at stores and eggs abundant.
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