Del Monte Orchard Select® & SunFresh®: Best Canned Fruit Ever

April 6th, 2008 | 2 Comments

Del Monte's Orchard Select® Sliced Cling Peaches

I randomly threw a jar of the sliced peaches into my basket one day and was frankly blown away that it didn’t taste like high fructose corn syrup. That’s because it doesn’t contain high fructose corn syrup! I know! The ingredients are peaches, water, sugar, “natural flavor”, citric acid, and ascorbic acid. This is amazingly low on multisyllabic chemical compounds (though they are surprisingly sing-able).

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A Tentative Success

October 14th, 2007 | No Comments

Remember I was going to root some grocery store rosemary? I had a ton of rosemary left in the packet after my rosemary chicken and veggies. I left it in the fridge for another week or so before I decided I had better root it.

I picked out six green springs between 2″ and 4″ long and stripped off the leaves from the bottom inch. I filled a narrow glass with some water, added a dash of rooting hormone, plunked the sprigs in the water, and set it by the window.

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