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It's that time of year again. Time to turn the season's juiciest and sweetest tomatoes into a homemade tomato sauce and preserving it for the winter months. It is also time to stock up your freezer with basil pesto sauce. I've managed to freeze ten cups so far. That is in addition to the batches I've gone through by tossing it with pasta, grilled vegetables, spreading it ...

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You really didn't think I was done with pomegranates, did you? I am amazed to hear how scarce this amazing fruit is in other parts of the world. A Turkish reader living in Germany said a pomegranate costs 2 Euros there!!! I am so lucky to be living in a city abundant with pomegranates. Did you know that pomegranates have more antioxidant power than cranberry juice or ...

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Thanks to my father, I preserved more tomato sauce than I'll ever need this winter. It was impossible to consume the amount of fresh garden tomatoes he brought every Monday morning. He would not only bring the tomatoes he grew in his garden at our summer house, but also hand-picked the tastiest tomatoes from the farmers' market on his way back. Six batches later, I came up with ...

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After reading through last month's Sugar High Friday posts at Delicious Days, I couldn't resist making my own jam.

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