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.
Grower
Seasons/Availability
Dancing Demon Pluots are harvested Mid July throughout August.
Current Facts
A botanically true pluot is a cross between a plumcot (50% apricot and 50% plum), and a true plum.
Description/Taste
Deep purple in color with a unique flavor, the pluot is a cross between a plum and an apricot. Pluots have smooth skin, like plums, and firm, juicy, sweet flesh surrounding a pit.
Applications
Pluots, like other stonefruit, are best enjoyed fresh at their peak of ripeness. Pluots may also be baked, roasted, sauteed, pureed or cooked into jams and compotes.
Geography/History
Locally grown in the center of the tree-fruit industry, Reedley, California, the pluot is a new hybrid, cross-introduced in 1989. Pluots have a predominantly plum parentage, having smooth skins like plums.
Recipe Ideas
Recipes that include Dancing Demon Pluots. One
is easiest, three is harder.
| Fitzgerald Farms |
Seasons/Availability
Dancing Demon Pluots are harvested Mid July throughout August.
Current Facts
A botanically true pluot is a cross between a plumcot (50% apricot and 50% plum), and a true plum.
Description/Taste
Deep purple in color with a unique flavor, the pluot is a cross between a plum and an apricot. Pluots have smooth skin, like plums, and firm, juicy, sweet flesh surrounding a pit.
Applications
Pluots, like other stonefruit, are best enjoyed fresh at their peak of ripeness. Pluots may also be baked, roasted, sauteed, pureed or cooked into jams and compotes.
Geography/History
Locally grown in the center of the tree-fruit industry, Reedley, California, the pluot is a new hybrid, cross-introduced in 1989. Pluots have a predominantly plum parentage, having smooth skins like plums.
Recipe Ideas
Recipes that include Dancing Demon Pluots. One
is easiest, three is harder.| The Cooking Photographer |
|
Pluot Raspberry Pie |
| The Cooking Bride |
|
Pluot Cake |
