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Re: Score!
From: keith_warrennospam@windstream.net (KW)
"George Shirley" <gmshirley@suddenlink.net> wrote in message
news:ZaWdnUsEj92lqhvRnZ2dnUVZ_sydnZ2d@giganews.com...
On 9/7/2010 7:26 AM, KW wrote:
I went in to visit my friendly local produce stand on Saturday to grab
enough peaches for a large cobbler I was making for a dinner party. When
I
put my basket on the counter, the Pictures of People">lady that runs the place says that'll
be
$4, but if your interested.....I have a 25+ lb box of culled fruit that
I'll
take $5 for if you aren't worried much about how they look! WooHoo! She
just
kept adding to the box from little piles of culls here and there until
the
tomato box was full! There was only one peach in the whole box that
needed
to be pitched and most only had a slight bruise here and there. Put up 7
quarts of slices in ultra-light syrup, made a cobbler to feed 20+ and
still
have enough peaches to make a couple runs of jam.
KW
I wish we had a local produce stand. The ones nearby buy their produce at
the Houston Farmers Market and you never know from whence it came.
I can occasionally do what you did at the local Kroger, the produce
manager there is a long-time friend. When he starts culling fruit from the
market he calls me. I find the Chilean fruit is best as compared to some
of the US fruit that is offered.
Most of what they get is from the Farmers Market....but the old man (since
deceased) taught the kids well how to pick the best out and what they have
is always leagues better than what's at the local grocers. In this
particular case, he had made a run over to South Carolina and bought the
peaches straight off the farm. Most of these things were the size of
softballs. I have never seen peaches this size before.
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