Storing Fruit

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You can get some really great deals on regional or local fruit, if you’re willing to buy 20 or 40 pounds at a time. This is what we do, but we have trouble keeping the fruit fresh. I have no extra fridge room, nor a cellar (wouldn’t that be nice), and just keeping the boxes [...]

Raw Applesauce

A friend gave me a similar recipe last summer. Kids love this applesauce — what I love is that it is easy, raw and nutritious! You will need a Vita-Mix or other such heavy duty blender. (choose organic ingredients) about 4 apples, sweet variety such as Fuji handful of soaked, raw almonds (why soak nuts?)* [...]

Cranberry Relish

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My mom makes this relish every year. She has made it for so many people, who all love it. It is really easy. You will need either a manual or electric grinder, or a food processor. If you only have a blender, you can use that too, but what you’ll want to watch is that you don’t liquefy the fruits. If you’re using a blender, chop small batches of fruit and use brief pulses of chopping to prevent liquefying the fruit.

Plum Sauce

This plum sauce is great atop Chocolate Ice Cream, on our favorite breakfast porridge, Genius Breakfast Cereal, or stirred into a bowl of kefir. It is not too sweet and really tasty!

Drying & Freezing Fruit

I will show you some pictures of what I’m drying. My dehydrator has been going non-stop for a week. I only have the 3 trays that came with my American Harvest Snackmaster Dehydrator, which was given to me by a friend. I posted on Craig’s List yesterday that I am looking for more of these [...]

Pear Sauce and Dehydrating Pears

Pears are in abundance locally. We’ve received boxes of them from our doctor and from friends. Then I am also able to buy fun varieties of local, organic pears from a local farm for 50 cents per pound. We’re eating gobs of the fresh pears, because this is the best time to eat them — [...]

Keeping the Fruit Flies Away

We eat many fruits and vegetables and I like to keep them in big bowls on the counter. Some fruits are there because they’re ripening, others are there because that’s the temperature they like best. I want my counter to look like this. Big bowls of fruit on my counter (taken last summer) I began [...]