Our visit to the church farm netted us more apricots than we could eat before they went bad. We made strawberry-rhubarb-apricot pie, apricot-cherry bread, and apricot-cherry-rhubarb pie. We snacked on them, and made smoothies and marinade. Still, we had lots left.
We took some of the apricots and made frozen pied filling. When January comes, we’ll [...]
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Extra Apricots? Freeze Them, Dry Them!
Summer Recipe: Apricot Chicken
Here’s a marinade I created for barbecued chicken, inspired by the fresh ingredients we had on hand. The amounts are flexible, make it to your own taste. But beware: it’s tasty– People sometimes eat it by the spoonful!
1 cup apricots, pitted
1/2 stalk rhubarb, chopped
1 jalapeno pepper, or to taste
1/4 cup apple juice
1-2 Tbs fresh parsley [...]
Summer Smoothies
Summer fruits and summer heat– what better reason to make a smoothie!
I avoid sugar, so ice cream and most flavored yogurts are out. I make mine with ice, fruit, apple juice, milk, and little else. Here’s an example:
1 cup ice cubes
1 cup pitted apricots
1 banana, peeled
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup apple juice
1/2 tsp vanilla
Put it all [...]
More Summer Recipes: Cherry-Apricot Bread
Here’s a fun bread to make! I make it using the dough cycle of the bread machine, then bake the finished loaf in the oven. This time of year, most of the ingredients can be found locally!
Bread:
1 cup warm water
1 egg, beaten lightly
2 cups white flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
1/4 cup rye flour (or use [...]
Summer Recipe: Strawberry-Rhubarb-Apricot Pie
(Apricot-Cherry-Rhubarb Pie, before baking.)
An innovation born of availability, this pie combines the traditional strawberry-rhubarb with the delicate taste of apricots.
Ingredients:
2 cups fresh strawberries
1/2 cup fresh rhubarb stalks
1-1/2 cups fresh apricots
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1/4 cup dry tapioca
1/4 cup (or more) fructose (or your preferred sweetener)
3/4 cup apple juice
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two pie crusts
Preheat the oven to 450.
Mix the tapioca, fructose, and apple [...]
Apricots at the Church Farm
The LDS (Mormon) Church has a system of farms that it uses to feed needy people., both inside and outside the Church. These farms have been purchased using contributions from church members, and are largely run using volunteer labor. Says Wiki:
Virtually every item you can think of is grown on Mormon welfare farms. [...]
Preserving Plums: Prunes
Some friends gave us a whole box of plums, the variety used for cooking and drying. We ate quite a few of them, but there’s no way we could eat the whole box. So we did the obvious: we made prunes with a lot of them.
Like many other fruits, plums are easy to dry: just [...]
A Step Further: Plum Buns
So you’ve made plum jam. What can you do with it? Besides slathering it on bread and peanut butter, that is…
Here’s a recipe that I adapted from “Cinnamon and Apricot Buns” in Linda Doeser’s The Bread Machine Cookbook, this recipe uses almost no added sugar. The way I make them, each bun has about 1/2 tsp of fructose [...]
Preserving Plums: Reduced-Sugar Jam
We still had plums left, so I made jam. It’s not hard. It helps if you’ve done canning before, but that’s not essential. You can also pack it in plastic and refrigerate and/or freeze it instead of canning.
5 cups diced plums
1 cup apple juice
2 Tbs fructose (helps with color & texture)
2 Tbs lemon juice
1 package [...]
Apple Harvest
Apple season is in full swing, now, and many of our neighbors have more than they can use or store. They’re more than happy for us to take what they can’t handle. So we’ve been cutting and slicing, freezing, drying, canning, and making pies. I’m sure we’ll get sick of apples in a week or [...]
