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Basic Techniques: How to Segment an Orange

We love the jeweled look of clean-cut citrus wedges in the salads and side dishes we order at fancy restaurants. In culinary terms, these are called citrus "suprêmes" - a fancy name for a simp...

Recipe: The One Minute Brownie

You know that we usually pan box mixes; from scratch is healthier and sometimes even quicker. And yet... while some days we feel in the mood for complicated desserts with lots of steps and ingredients...

What Is the Best Way To Juice a Lemon?

This post earlier today on a trick for juicing key limes leads us to a broader question: What is the best way to juice a lemon? ...

Eating Light: Citrus Recipe Roundup

What's the best way to stave off post-holiday melancholy and face another dreary winter morning? For us, it's bright, juicy citrus. Now that we're eating light again, we've been devouring as much citr...

What's For Lunch Today? A Very Orange Plate

We've been talking a lot about sweets this week; we have scads of ideas for pretty, easy, fun, and yummy treats for holiday enjoyment and gift-giving in our Un-Gift Guide. But we still need to eat, ev...

Recipe Review: Orange Yogurt Cake

So if it has yogurt in it, can we pretend it's healthy? Pretty please? This recipe for Orange Yogurt Cake comes from one of our favorite blogs, Farmgirl Fare. We made it for a barbecue dinner party l...

New Fruit On the Block: Self-Peeling Citrus

It's hard to imagine the delicious citrus we're eating in-season right now being improved upon, but some University of Florida scientists have made one of the most convenient foods even easier to eat....

Seasonal Spotlight: Eat Blood Oranges While You Can

While we buy local when we can, the luxury of citrus from exotic places like Florida and California is not one we take for granted. Right now we are deeply enjoying a bag of Moro blood oranges - their...

What's In Your Fruit Bowl?

We are looking forward to spring fruit - tiny berries and other fresh treats from the garden. But that doesn't mean we don't have fruit in our fruit bowl now. ...

Recipe: Blood Orange Jelly Smiles

You've seen them on the dessert cart every time you went out for dim sum. But the lure of the custard tarts and the sesame balls has always been too strong, so you've never actually tried the jelle...