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There’s double doses of goodness in these cookies. Where to begin? First, there’s a double helping of buckwheat AND a double dosage of chocolate. To add to that, there’s a salty-sweet element too. Most importantly, these cookies are for an ultimate good, worthy, and loving cause. Please read on…
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Exotic and unusual. Like something extraterrestrial, it's the passiflora or passion fruit and its passion flower - my purple passion. ...
Amongst the myriad of fruits, vegetables, herbs, flowers, and creatures in the garden (both friends and foes), we've made way for Lavandula angustifolia. Lavandula is lavender, not only the color but the flowering plants with a genus of 39 known species. I was surprised to learn that lavender is also from the mint family... ...
I'm officially hooked. Hooked on roasted strawberries that is! While strawberries are in season, the sweetest, plump, and most beautiful ever and you have a generous bounty, roasting strawberries is just the thing to do... ...
Not a botanical berry, but an aggregate accessory fruit. One serving of strawberries (about 8 strawberries) is an excellent source of vitamin C, providing more than an orange. Other healthful benefits include fiber, potassium, and antioxidants.
From a Wickson apple, Italian Plum, Tropic Pink Guava and purple bell peppers – Sharing what I’ve been up to in one of my favorite places – our edible garden of fruits, vegetables and herbs. Fresh, organic, and edible culinary delights!
This is part of my “edible garden” category on the Teenie Cakes photography journal. A few captures from last year’s harvest that I never shared and these images never saw the light of day again after they were downloaded. Some thoughts and photographer notes…
The strawberry is not a true berry but an aggregate accessory fruit. There’s still plenty of time to enjoy the season’s harvest. Don’t forget to bring home some extra and prep to freeze them for use later.
