If your only familiarity with guava fruit is its use as a jelly, you need to put that out of your mind. At least that’s the advice of Brooks Tropicals, which recently published suggestions for better ways to appreciate the fruit. Here are some of the highlights: • Add sliced guava to a meal by…
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This installment of tropical fruit recipes concentrates on sapodilla, which is not only a fine fruit, but the product of a beautiful ornamental tree, Manilkara zapota. Richard Lyons’ Nursery sells the fresh fruit of sapodilla for several months starting roughly at the beginning of March. It’s not hard to see from the recipes below that…
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For the past two weeks, Richard Lyons’ Nursery has been describing several of the most interesting tropical fruits being grown around southern Florida. Now it’s time to take a look at tasty recipes – gleaned from the Internet – using some of those fruits. You can find out the details of preparation by clicking on…
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Here’s another in the series of interesting newsletters that Richard Lyons’ Nursery receives from Brooks Tropicals. What’s written about paleo diets often emphasizes eating meat, but the diet is more about enjoying food that isn’t highly processed. Slice and enjoy – dragonfruit Tropical fruits need little or no preparation to be enjoyed and to…
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Once again Richard Lyons’ Nursery is happy to pass along to readers some useful information published by Brooks Tropicals. This time it’s about preparing delicious vegatarian dishes. Enjoy! Enjoy a tropical vegetarian dish! You want to eat healthy. You’ve read about all the benefits of a plant-based diet. But if there’s a gap between wanting…
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