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Peachy..or maybe Nectariny!?

Posted on August 5, 2018

Now is the time you can get wonderful stone fruit at farmers markets and roadside stalls. Most eat them out of hand but they also make sweet and a colorful salad. The challenge with using peaches, plums and nectarines in a salad is removing the pits without destroying the fruit. There are two kinds of pits you might encounter--a hard stone pit and a cling pit that is stubborn and tricky to work around. read more