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Watermelon & Goat Cheese Salad

May is National Salad Month!  This Watermelon & Goat Cheese Salad from Garden Cut is one of my very favorites!  Don’t overlook fresh fruit as an ingredient option when you are preparing salads.  Watermelon is a great addition to salad, plus it always makes me think about warm weather, plus… who doesn’t like watermelon?!??  Seriously!  [...]

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Talking Turnips on Indy Style

It was my pleasure to be back on Indy Style this week.  This time I brought a good friend of Indy Fruit with me, Mike Kocher of Peaper Brothers Farm.  Peaper Brothers Produce has been farming turnips for over 100 years & as you may remember from a previous blog… I LOVE TURNIPS! DID YOU [...]

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Nicoise Salad

Salad Niçoise is probably my very favorite salad & it has to be one of the easiest fancy things you can make.  It just SOUNDS elegant, right?  French: [ni 'swaz].   Don’t let that fancy-schmanzcy pronunciation & presentation fool ya… Niçoise is EASY!

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Fox News Features The Produce Mom

It was my pleasure to be featured on yesterday’s Fox 59 News.  Jenny Anchondo, one of the morning anchors, utilized my voice & produce industry knowledge to help drive home the messaging that fresh fruits and veggies are an accessible, affordable & healthy option for all consumers!  All produce is good for you & nothing [...]

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BLT Salad

May is National Salad Month!  And one thing we know around here at Indy Fruit is a good salad…. we have salad bar in the office everyday for lunch & it’s one of our favorite things to make in the Garden Cut test kitchen!

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Banana Peel Power

DO NOT THROW AWAY THAT BANANA PEEL! I have a plethora of uses for banana peels.  Today I’m going to show you the step-by-step for my very favorite… Polishing shoes! Maybe you’re like me… I love the look of a fresh polished shoe, but I’ve never really polished my shoes the traditional way.  I don’t [...]

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Spiderman Fruit Tray

There’s 1 thing you know when you have little boys… and that’s the joy of Super Heroes. Every little boy has a favorite super hero.  My oldest son absolutely LOVES Spiderman, so I got creative one day in the kitchen & made a themed fruit tray for my lil’ webslinger!  Needless to say, it has [...]

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Indy Style Meets The Produce Mom

On Wednesday I was the featured guest on Indianapolis’ swanky morning talk show – Indy Style!  Oh, it was so much fun!  LIVE interviews & cooking demos are simply exhilarating.

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Shop Green

DID YOU KNOW… …Half of the food that’s produced in the world goes to waste, which in turn wastes the precious resources used to produce & ship it? YOU can help by ONLY buying the food you will use …If we all used our own reusable shopping bag just ONCE a week, we’d keep 16 [...]

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Celebrate Earth Month

We are approaching Earth Day – it’s in just 1 week!  I have joined forces with Earthbound Farm & our celebrations for April 22nd start NOW. I’m encouraging each & every one of you to SHOP LIKE THE EARTH DEPENDS ON IT…. every cart at the grocery store counts!  Simple modifications are highly-effective & that’s [...]