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The Apricot Tree Blooms by Allan Stellar Posted Sat 05 Feb 2011 11:29pm We noticed it yesterday: our apricot tree is blooming. On February 4. In 2009, the tree bloomed on March 12. That year was also a year that it bloomed early. We didn't get any apricots that year because a freeze came along and killed the fruit. The same will probably happen this year. Our neighbors are all complaining that their fruit trees Read on »

Walk #70: The Apricot Tree Blooms! by Allan Stellar Posted Thu 12 Mar 2009 12:00am Walk Duration: One hour... Our one and only fruit tree, an Apricot, is in bloom. This was the first day I was able to walk in shorts and a t-shirt. 64 degrees in the shade. Wonderful! Feels like a real turning point. Now that I have walked some 70 walks (okay, 2 of them were rather chinsy), what have I noticed about my physical conditioning Read on »

Apricots by Ingrid .. Patient Expert

Posted Wed 02 Jun 2010 12:22pm and I bought a Blenheim Semi-Dwaft Apricot tree. We anticipate this tree will bare lots of sweet firm golden fruit sometime next year. Black Velvet Apricots – are the result... I like orange skinned apricots – the ones that are fresh ripe and sweet – but last summer I spotted two varieties that really intrigued me Read on »

Scavenged Apricots + Weird Chicken by Rachel W. Posted Wed 12 Aug 2009 12:00am Look what I scavenged! Little apricots! By scavenged, I mean I literally picked them up off the ground. See, there's this big majestic apricot tree in the parking lot of a little dentist's office at the edge of my neighborhood. I'm obsessed with this tree. There are so many apricots on it! But it's pruned so that the first branches are probably 12 Read on »

Apricot Chai Bread by Stephanie L. Posted Mon 09 Aug 2010 8:07am of the best fruit you have ever tasted. Once I discovered it was apricots growing on our patio I was very excited. It must have been an older tree because it was giving off a ton... Apricots have made their appearance into my kitchen. I found a bunch of them for a bargain price and they were perfectly ready for eating, cooking and...baking of course Read on »

Grilled Haddock over Apricot Pistachio Israelis Couscous & Sweet Potato Fries with Apricot Dipping Sauce by Jane S. Posted Tue 12 Oct 2010 6:42pm with pistachios, then adding water and chopped dried apricots. Keeping the apricot theme, I am preparing a dipping sauce for the oven baked sweet potato fries. Toast one cup.... apricot jam (I love Simply Fruit because there is no added sugar) with 1T. soy sauce and 1 T. lime juice. Place in tiny dipping bowl and serve with hot crispy sweet potato fries! Read on »

Apricot Crumble Bar by Ingrid .. Patient Expert

Posted Fri 03 Jul 2009 9:12pm Last summer, I discovered two absolutely delicious types of apricots, one is called Angelcot, the other Black Velvet. Both have become favorites of mine that I am happily enjoying again now that they are in season. In North America, apricot season usually begins mid-May and continues into August. Novel fruits, like Angelcot and Black Velvet Read on »

Apricots, Peaches and Cherries, Oh My by Jill N. Registered Dietician

Posted Wed 01 Oct 2008 9:06pm Here in California we are into the stone fruit season with an abundance of wonderful, fresh, ripe apricots, peaches, nectarines, plums, apriums, pluots and other new stone.... Amazingly, that same day I was able to pick Ranier-type cherries from my late friend Jon's tree and ate far too many before going out to dinner. They taasted much better than dinner Read on »

Recipe #244: Homemade Apricot-Nut Energy Bars by Corey I. Patient Expert

Posted Sat 26 Feb 2011 3:35pm I decided to do some baking this afternoon, & so, created this original recipe for homemade apricot-nut energy bars. As you can probably tell from the number of baked goods... baking skills have improved considerably since then. Several months ago, I made a cranberry-apricot banana bread & I'm happy to say that it turned out remarkably well. Banana bread Read on »