Nature’s Gifts – healthful & beautiful seasonal fruits and vegetables.

Nature’s Gifts is a visual series of healthful, yet beautiful – seasonal fruits and vegetables featuring their nutritional benefits and use in culinary cultural dishes. These are nature’s gifts that are essential to our well being.

Nature’s Gifts: Forelle Pears

The Forelle is considered a “snacking pear” and its smaller size makes them just a bit larger than the cute little Seckel pears.

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Kumquats – Symbols of good luck and prosperity

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It’s at this time of year that kumquat trees are bearing their olive-sized fruits in abundance. The height of its season coincides with the Lunar New Year (Chinese New Year).

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Nature’s Gifts: Garden Tomatoes & Tomatillos

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Even with this season’s high warmer temperatures, the growth and abundance of summer’s tomato and tomatillo harvest in Southern California is at its best.

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Nature’s Gifts: Seasonal Garden Blueberries

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Packed with a range of micronutrients.
Similar to red grapes, blueberries may also contain resveratrol.

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Nature’s Gifts: Garden Strawberries

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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.

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Nature’s Gifts: Aubergine – Baby Eggplant

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Also known as melongene, brinjal, and guinea squash. The fruit of a plant that is botanically classified as a berry but eaten as a vegetable. It is a close relative of tobacco.

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An Edible Garden – Container Gardening & Other Plantings

Garden Fresh

Over the last years, I’ve shared a post or two about some fruits and herbs we’ve added to our landscape and garden here in Southern California. I’ve been happy to learn that those posts were inspiring to many people and continues to draw visitors to the Teenie Cakes site…

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