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It's approximately other #FoodieFriday. Even though it's belatedly inwards the day, this postal service volition last published earlier midnight. If not, I powerfulness plough into fig! (Just kidding!)
Want to know my other #FoodieFriday posts? For this #FoodieFriday, the keyword is "fig". (It was going to last "gumbo' but ... flora this postal service close fig together with went off inwards a completely dissimilar direction! :) ) Before getting started, allow me portion this salubrious tip. TIP: Need a pre-workout snack? Try figs! They are filled amongst calcium, magnesium together with potassium. (Source) OK! My kickoff fig share is an awesome postal service flora inwards a Google Plus Blogging community.
I don't know if the fig was actually the forbidden fruit inwards the Garden of Eden. As far equally I'm concerned it's a fruit that was sky sent!
Here is a fiddling flake close the fig. It's an excerpt from my article published at Wizzley.com.
FIG TREES Genus Ficus The fig flora tin grade notice last either a low-lying shrub or a tall tree. They grow wild; or domesticated inwards the Mediterranean part together with inwards California. In Israel, the fig trees unremarkably sprout buds inwards belatedly spring; past times the calendar month of June (early summer) the tree is total of leaves; together with inwards simply a few to a greater extent than weeks, the figs are ready for picking.
... - You tin grade notice acquire to a greater extent than close the ficus flora at PlanetFig.com
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An additional fact. In the Bible, the fig has 2 symbolic meanings. Hope (if the fig tree fruitful): Desolation (if the fig tree is barren).
Here are to a greater extent than shares. Enjoy!
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Almost everyone loves roses. But these flowers convey a special important to me because of my belatedly mother's rose bush which was the centerpiece of the forepart yard of my childhood home. Every fourth dimension I run into a rose, it's impossible to disassociate them from this childhood memory. My Facebook friend is knowledgeable virtually holistic wellness together with option remedies together with she published a wonderful article virtually rose H2O which she refers to a Grandma’s Secret Weapon. She explains the benefits of using it for peel tending together with suggests it live on a business office of aromatherapy. That sounds fabulous. But did you lot too know that you lot tin drinkable rose water?
Following me together with hence far?
You're likely thinking: 'Hurry together with instruct to the business office virtually the mangos!'
Mangos (or Mangoes)? Another childhood retention is existence able to exit inward my backyard or my neighbor's backyard together with selection a mango from the tree to enjoy. To this day, it's ever a thrill abide by whatever variety recipe that includes mango equally an ingredient. Sharing the recipe gives me an fifty-fifty bigger thrill.
Here is a link to a quick together with slow recipe that is certain to please you lot constitute inward the Cooking Section of the New York Times.
In example you've never seen or heard of a “lassi”, hither is a clear Definition constitute inward Wikipedia: “Lassi (pronounced [ləs-siː]) (la-SEE) is a pop traditional yogurt-based drinkable from the Indian Subcontinent together with originates from the Punjab. ... a blend of yogurt, water, spices together with sometimes fruit.” The Definition does non specifically advert “rose water”. But it does tell “water” together with that's skillful enough! :) 
The malandel is a production of France. Rose bloom H2O is produced past times H2O distillation from rose flowers.
- Not alone is it slap-up inward a smoothie only tin live on added to a creamy tapioca or rice pudding together with marries good amongst most ricotta cheese desserts together with Italian sponge cakes, cookies together with biscuits.
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 Sprinkle a few drops into H2O ice H2O for an amazing transformation.
- In the Middle East, it is used to flavour baklava (or filo desserts) together with sherbets, together with Turkish please candies.
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Add a splash of rosewater to a creamy tapioca or rice pudding together with sprinkle amongst chopped pistachios to brand a unproblematic dessert elegant. Rose bloom H2O too marries good amongst most ricotta cheese desserts together with Italian sponge cakes, cookies together with biscuits. The side past times side fourth dimension you lot dollop creme friche over your dessert, add together a teaspoon of rose bloom H2O beforehand. Sprinkle a few drops into H2O ice H2O for an amazing transformation. Add to a greater extent than or less saffron threads together with a twain of drops of rose water. H5N1 fantastic combination! It tin too live on used to flavour baklava together with other filo desserts. Used widely inward the Middle East peculiarly to flavour baklava together with sherbets equally good equally Turkish please candies. Rose bloom H2O is produced past times H2O distillation from rose flowers. The malandel is a production of france. |
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My Healthy Dessert is i of my favorite nutrient bloggers together with I'm using this Valentine's Day to demonstrate her some love. These adorable creations are simply likewise cute non to reshare. I'm certain you lot volition agree. Follow My Healthy Dessert all around the web.
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Growing up, people used to e'er tell to me: “Eat carrots! They're goodness for your eyes.” I believed what they said. Not dissing carrots, but they were as well as are non my favorite veggie. So coming upward alongside creative ways to savor them to have the wellness practice goodness was e'er a challenge. What's the best means to reply to a nutrient challenge? COMPROMISE! 😋 Now inward my adulthood, come upward to discovery out that according to experts inward diet as well as nutrition, zeaxanthin as well as lutein, which are the forms of beta-carotene that boost optic wellness are constitute inward high levels inward greenish leafy vegetables, such equally spinach, kale, romaine lettuce, as well as Swiss chard. That's fantastic! Because for me, greens are the best veggies!! Although, inward defense strength of carrots, the juice mixes good alongside diverse other fruits as well as makes for a delicious salubrious drink! ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Carrot Juice Recipes | Juicing Carrots
Carrot juice recipes are exactly wonderful. If you've never had it before, you'll travel surprised how sugariness it is. It tastes NOTHING similar y'all mean value it volition taste. Its sweet, creamy as well as delicious. It has a milky texture as well as has no bitterness.
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Been married to my hubby for over forty years. This is a long-standing DIVIDE. My hubby says fruit has no house on a bed of lettuce or other greens used to brand a salad. I country all light-green salads sense of savor improve amongst fruit - nectarines, pears, strawberries, raisins, mangos! Love that sugariness taste. He says "Forget well-nigh it!" This coming from the human being who taught me to swallow carrot and raisin salad.
Whose side are you lot are you lot on?
Fruit is fantastic inward a salad. Yes??
If you lot country NO. These recipes powerfulness persuade you lot to modify your mind.
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Is at that spot a exceptional dish that yous would absolutely honey IF ONLY …
If solely this exceptional recipe did non accept this exceptional vegetable, I'd consume it all the time!
Face it. When it comes to vegetables, at that spot are sure as shooting veggies yous either honey 'em or loathe 'em.
I'm that agency almost okra. Oh yeah! I know all almost fried okra, gumbo, too all those wonderful recipes where okra is the principal ingredient. For years, at that spot were sure as shooting dishes I would avoid simply because of the okra. Since I didn't actually acquire into cooking until I got married too had to create for my identify unit of measurement to live, I never actually idea also much almost varying recipes or changing things upward a bit.
Hey! Gumbo is made alongside okra. IT'S THE LAW!! Right?
Of course, when I await at it I realize that I was simply non beingness flexible. Common sense. Some people accept nutrient allergies. They accept to acquire how to substitute sure as shooting foods for other foods. Substitution Guide
But fifty-fifty if yous don't accept a nutrient allergy, at that spot are simply approximately veggies yous don't like! PERIOD!! And you're non flexible when it comes to that specific vegetable. 
So! For me … since I don't actually similar (slimy) okra all that much, I flora that zucchini is a cracking substitute veggie. Whenever I run across a dish I desire to endeavor too it says okra, I acquire correct out to the grocery shop too purchase zucchini! LOL. 
(NOTE: Others accept recommended asparagus or broccoli florets equally okra substitutes. I respectfully disagree.) Which veggies produce yous similar to substitute? * * * Original source Forum Coin.
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Do yous beloved pomegranates? I know I do! I would fifty-fifty similar to foremost a crusade alongside the goal of adding pomegranates to the traditional American Thanksgiving cornucopia. (Care to participate inwards the Thanksgiving cornucopia POLL as well as shape your vote? )
Shared the link via my post current on Google Plus stream, but inwards representative yous didn't run into it there, thought it here. If yous are on Pinterest, delight see my pinboard dedicated to POMEGRANATES? Started the board a distich of years agone as well as to date, it has 100 pins: recipes (food as well as drinks), beauty as well as healthcare products, etc.
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Our Blueberry Pomegranate tea has a circular fruity gustatory modality alongside a sugariness as well as slightly tart finish. H5N1 wonderfully refreshing treat, perfect for whatsoever occasion! Floral, Sweet, Fruity
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Select organic light-green tea manus tossed inwards a large wok, dried to perfection, as well as thence carefully blended alongside organic raspberries as well as essence of pomegranate. Sweeten the senses alongside a tart as well as tangy rush to the palate. Also available inwards our Eco Pyramid Teabags here. Fruity, Sweet, Tart
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Tropical fruit must accept been abundant inwards the Garden of Eden. Don't yous think? At least, that's how I imagine it anyway. Do yous similar exotic fruit? My start watch to The Bahamas opened upward a whole novel footing for me. There were as well as hence many delicious fruits of paradise that I had never heard of or tasted.
That was to a greater extent than than xxx years ago. These days, the wonderful affair most grocery shopping inwards America, is that yous tin discovery foods from almost anywhere inwards the world. These foods were non ever available as well as and hence plentiful. It's non my imagination. Even Chef Jacques Pepin mentioned during 1 of his TV episodes that when he start arrived inwards the U.S.A. of America to laid about his career every bit a chef, in that location were many ingredients that he could non readily discovery at the local grocery store. You had to become to a particular marketplace or a gourmet shop. Not so, these days. Thanks to the Internet, it's slowly to inquiry as well as larn to a greater extent than most tropical fruit or “exotic fruit” or “super fruit” or “wonder fruit”, as well as why they are as well as hence adept for you. Uh huh. Right. As if people require to twist your arm to acquire yous to swallow them. :)
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- Acerola, besides known every bit the Barbados cherry, is native to the West Indies, as well as besides to Southern Mexico, as well as Southern as well as Central America. They claim this fruit has numerous wellness benefits, but salubrious or not, the gustation of this tropical fruit is irresistible.
- Cherimoya tastes similar bubblegum. People accept fifty-fifty given this fruit nicknames similar “ice cream fruit” or “custard apple”, so-called because it has a creamy, sherbet-like texture. But beware of the seeds, every bit they tin hold out poisonous.
- Dead man’s fingers originated from China. They truly create await similar fingers as well as their coloring is bluish-black. The gustation is similar to watermelon.
- Kiwano or the horned melon has many names. It is native to Africa as well as is called African cucumber. But it is besides known every bit English linguistic communication tomato. (???) On the outside it is yellowish as well as orange, but the flesh within is lime green. It's been role of African cuisine since ancient times.
- Mangosteen grows inwards Southeast Asia as well as is considered a “wonder fruit”. One mightiness mean value because of the cry that it is similar to a mango, but actually it is to a greater extent than similar a peach. Research indicates that the mangosteen contains to a greater extent than xanthones than whatsoever other fruit. They telephone telephone it the "X-Factor".
These are simply a sampling of fruits. The intent is to whet your appetite as well as peak your curiosity. There is besides dragon fruit, starfruit, Buddha’s mitt (citron), cloudberries, durian, moringa, abiu as well as more! *** Image credit: Kiwano fruit (Public Domain)
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