Produce Briefs...
Radicchio
Cooking radicchio brings out the vegetable's natural sweetness but it can also be served fresh. Grill radicchio halves and combine with cooked white beans and balsamic vinaigrette.
Brussels Sprouts
Brussels sprouts are members if the Brassica family and therefor kin to broccoli and cabbage. They do, indeed, resemble miniature cabbage. They are hardy and slow growing winter vegetable.
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Seasons/Availability
Melrose Apples are at their very best after Christmas when they develop a wonderfully fruity fragrance.
Description/Taste
A rather large apple with a slightly flattened look, the Melrose apple is wrapped in a yellowish-green russeted skin brushed and streaked with dark red markings. Firm and quite coarse in texture, this apple's creamy white juicy flesh is slightly acidic in taste and actually improves with age.
Applications
Melrose apples are considered to be a very fine dessert apple.
Recipe Ideas
Recipes that include Melrose Apples. One
is easiest, three is harder.
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Seasons/Availability
Melrose Apples are at their very best after Christmas when they develop a wonderfully fruity fragrance.
Description/Taste
A rather large apple with a slightly flattened look, the Melrose apple is wrapped in a yellowish-green russeted skin brushed and streaked with dark red markings. Firm and quite coarse in texture, this apple's creamy white juicy flesh is slightly acidic in taste and actually improves with age.
Applications
Melrose apples are considered to be a very fine dessert apple.
Recipe Ideas
Recipes that include Melrose Apples. One
is easiest, three is harder.
