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10 results in Produce for "pears"
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ProducePears
Pears are fall fruit that ripen after harvest, which makes timing matter. Bartlett, Bosc, Anjou, Comice, and Asian pears all have different textures and best uses.
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ProducePeas
Peas are a short-season spring crop where freshness matters. Shelling peas, sugar snap peas, and snow peas all taste sweetest soon after harvest and cook very quickly.
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ProduceGreen Beans
A fresh green bean from a summer farm stand — snapping cleanly, bright and grassy — is a completely different experience from the limp, dull beans at the supermarket. Green beans are one of the most improved by local…
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ProduceAsparagus
Asparagus is one of the first serious vegetables of spring: quick-cooking, delicate, and best when it is handled simply. The main skill is knowing how to choose fresh spears and stop cooking before they go soft.
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ProduceWhat is a peach and how to use it
Peaches are juicy summer fruit that can be eaten fresh, baked, grilled, or cooked into simple sauces. Their biggest challenge is timing rather than complexity.
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ProduceMixed Seasonal Vegetables
Cooking with whatever is in season locally — rather than building a recipe and then hunting for ingredients — is how home cooks ate for most of human history. It is also how you get the best-tasting food for the least…
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ProduceWhat is zucchini and how to use it
Zucchini is one of the most flexible vegetables of summer because it cooks quickly, works with many flavors, and fits both simple sides and full meals.
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ProduceBasil
Basil is the signature summer herb — bright, aromatic, and versatile. Growing it at home is the easiest way to have a good herb on hand, but local farm basil at a farm stand beats supermarket plastic-pack herbs by a…
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ProduceCarrots
Carrots are one of the most reliable local-farm vegetables year-round — harvested in fall and stored through winter. A fresh-pulled carrot from a farm stand tastes nothing like a supermarket bag carrot.
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ProduceMixed Salad Greens
Mixed salad greens from a farm stand — loose-leaf lettuces, arugula, spinach, and more, harvested that morning — bear no resemblance to the washed and bagged mixes that have been sitting in a bag for a week. This is the…
