Preserve the harvest for winter meals, holiday gifts
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By Melinda Myers
Special to the Sun
The cucumbers have filled the vegetable drawer, you’ve run out of cabbage recipes and your family is refusing to eat one more BLT. Or maybe you just couldn’t resist that special deal on a bushel of tomatoes, potatoes or apples at the farmer’s market. So what is a gardener or shopper to do with all that produce?
Since properly stored vegetables will hold their flavor and nutritional value longer than those left in a plastic bag or set on the sunny kitchen counter, consider preserving some for the long winter ahead using one of several methods. Read more in our e-edition: http://www.etypeservices.com/SWF/LocalUser/Casscounty1//Magazine63389/Full/index.aspx?id=63389
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